What festival is Cowherd and Weaver Girl?

Cowherd and Weaver Girl refer to China's Valentine's Day, also known as Qiqiao Day, Seven Sisters Day, Daughter's Day, Qiqiao Day, Seventh Mother's Day, Chinese Valentine's Day, Niuniu Festival and Qiaoxi Festival, which are traditional folk festivals in China.

Valentine's Day in China is a comprehensive festival with the folk custom of "Cowherd and Weaver Girl" as the carrier, blessing, begging and love as the theme, and women as the main body. The "Cowherd and Weaver Girl" on Tanabata originated from people's worship of natural phenomena. In ancient times, planetariums were associated with geographical areas. This correspondence is called "dividing stars" in astronomy and "dividing fields" in geography.

According to legend, on the seventh day of July every year, the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl will meet at the Magpie Bridge in the sky. Valentine's Day in China began in ancient times, spread in the Western Han Dynasty and flourished in the Song Dynasty.

The worship of natural astronomical phenomena has a long history and is profound in China's ancient astrological culture. The ancients began to explore the mysteries of the universe from a very early age, and thus deduced a complete and profound star-watching culture. Cowherd and Weaver Girl is a typical example.

The legend of Cowherd and Weaver Girl on Tanabata originates from people's worship of natural phenomena. As early as ancient times, the ancients who pursued order not only planned the sky in an orderly way, but also corresponded the stars with the ground areas one by one. This correspondence is called "dividing stars" in astronomy and "dividing fields" underground.

Simply put, the ancients corresponded each constellation in the sky with the physical geographical area on the ground. The purpose of ancient star division and demarcation is mainly to cooperate with astrology theory for astronomical observation.

The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Tanabata.