What is the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar?

The seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar is China's Valentine's Day The Tanabata Valentine's Day, which is also another traditional festival in China Daughter's Day, so do you know what are the customs of the seventh day of the seventh month of the seventh month of the daughter's day?

Daughter's Day is the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar every year, which is the traditional festival of Tanabata in China. In the evening of this day, women wear needle begging, praying for blessings and activities, worship seven sisters, the ceremony is pious and grand, display flowers and fruits, female red, all kinds of furniture, utensils are exquisite small, love. 2006 May 20, Tanabata Festival was included in the State Council in the first batch of intangible cultural heritage list.

Overview of the festival

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

Tanabata is a folk custom to watch Altair and Vega. According to legend, on the night of the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar every year, it is the time when the heavenly Weaving Maiden meets the Cowherd at the Magpie Bridge. The Weaving Maiden is a beautiful, clever, dexterous nymphs, the mortal women will be begging her wisdom and skill on this night, but also less 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, you can see the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden in the Milky Way, or you can overhear the words of love between the two men in the sky when they meet under the melons.

Girls in this night full of romance, the sky's bright moon, seasonal fruits and melons, worship towards the sky, begging the heavenly fairies can give them a clever mind and dexterous hands, so that their own knitting women skilled, but also begging for love and marriage of marriage coincidental match. In the past, marriage was a lifelong event for women to decide whether they would be happy or not, so countless men and women in the world would pray to the starry sky for a happy marriage on this night, when the night is quiet and people are deep in the night.

Festival Research

Daughter's Day originated from the legend of the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden, which is one of the four major folk legends in China, and also the earliest and most widely circulated legend in China's folklore, and has a very important position in the history of folklore in China.