The origin of the Beggar's Day?

China, the night of the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, the weather is warm, fragrant grass, which is commonly known as the Tanabata Festival, also known as the "Begging Day" or "Daughter's Day", which is the most romantic of the traditional Chinese festivals in the color of a festival, but also the past The girls attach the most importance to the day.

On a clear summer and fall night, the stars in the sky shine brightly, and a white Milky Way runs across the north and south, and on the east and west banks of the river, there is a shining star on each side, looking at each other across the river, facing each other from afar, and that is the Altair and Vega stars.

Sitting on the eve of Tanabata to see the Altair and Vega stars, is a folk custom, according to legend, in this night every year, is the heavenly Weaving Maiden and the Cowherd in the magpie bridge meeting time. The Weaving Maiden is a beautiful, clever, dexterous nymphs, the mortal women will be begging for her wisdom and skill on this night, but also to her to ask for the gift of marriage, so the seventh day of the seventh month is also known as the Begging for coincidence festival.

People say that on the night of the seventh day of the seventh month, they can look up and see the Milky Way meeting of the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden, or they can overhear the pulsating words of love between the two men meeting in the sky under the shelf of melons and fruits.

Girls in this night full of romance, the sky's bright moon, seasonal fruits and melons, towards the sky to worship, begging the goddess in the sky to give them a clever mind and dexterous hands, so that their knitting skills skill, but also begging for love and marriage marriage coincidental match. In the past, marriage is a lifelong decision for women to determine the happiness of a lifetime, so countless men and women in the world will be in this night, the night is quiet and deep moment, praying to the starry sky for their own marriage.