What is the cultural significance of Tanabata?

Unlike nursery rhymes, which are catchy and delightful, the poems written by literati about the Tanabata festival often draw on the poignant and faithful love story of the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden to express their feelings.

There are countless poems with the theme of "Tanabata", Meng Haoran sighed with sadness that "when the Tanabata Festival comes to his hometown, the hotel will have more worries", Du Mu thought of "the night color of the heavenly steps is as cool as water, and I sat down to see the star of the cowherd and the weaving maiden", Bai Juyi said that "the night color is as cool as water. ", Bai Juyi chanting "a few happy feelings and hate, year after year and in this night" ...... sadness, hate, hurt two places, is these ancient lines in the **** the same emotions.

The cultural significance of the word "Tanabata" goes far beyond the folkloric begging of the weaver and the poets' sadness at the magpie bridge meeting. Traditional festivals are born out of the simple and hard daily labor, condensing the life experience and vision of the ancestors of the Yellow Emperor, is a whole set of closely related to the daily life of the cultural system.

The story of the cowherd and the weaving of the maiden is an important part of life in an agrarian society, and the story of the cowherd and the weaving of the maiden involves the sacrificing spirit of the yellow ox, the number seven, and the star of the cowherd and the weaving of the maiden, each with its own origins in traditional Chinese culture, and if you trace back the history of the festival along any of these branches, you will find a vast and interesting treasure of culture.