What festival is Tanabata called? What festival is Tanabata called?

1, Tanabata is also called Qiqiao Day, Seven Sisters Day, Daughter Day, Begging for Cleverness Day, etc.

Tanabata originated from the worship of nature and time. But we all know the legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl. The legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl is one of the four major folklore in China, and it is also the oldest and most widely circulated folklore in China. Tanabata is a festival to pay homage to seven sisters, and also a festival of love. It is a comprehensive festival with the folk custom of "Cowherd and Weaver Girl" as the carrier, the theme of prayer, begging and love, and women as the main body. Tanabata expresses the feelings of "never leaving" and "growing old together" between married men and women, and abides by their commitment to love. Legend has it that at seven o'clock in July every year, human magpies fly into the sky and meet for cowherd and weaver girl in the Milky Way. That night, the mortal woman prayed to the Weaver Girl for a happy marriage.