Tanabata Festival handbook content: the origin of Tanabata Festival

The annual Tanabata Festival is coming again, dear friends, when you have learned the text of the cowherd and the weaving woman, is not very emotional ah! The teacher assigned the handbill homework to get it? The handbill column provides you with the contents of the Tanabata Festival handbill, I hope it is helpful to you. Like to collect it, remember, is oh!

Tanabata handbook content: Tanabata Festival

Festival Introduction

Every year on the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, this day is China's traditional Han festival Tanabata Festival. Because the main participant of this day is a young girl, and the content of the festival is mainly to beg for coquettish, so people call this day as ? Begging for coincidences? or? Maiden's Day? The festival is also known as the "Daughter's Day". Daughter's Day? The Tanabata Festival is one of the most romantic of China's traditional festivals, and was also the most important day for girls in the past. In the evening of this day, women wear needle begging, praying for blessings and longevity activities, worship seven sisters, the ceremony is pious and grand, display of flowers and fruits, women's red, all kinds of furniture, utensils are exquisite small, attractive.May 20, 2006, Tanabata Festival by the State Council included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list. It is now also recognized as Chinese Valentine's Day. Chinese Valentine's Day.

In the clear summer and fall night, the sky stars shine, a white Milky Way like a bridge across the north and south, in the east and west banks of the river, each has a shining star, looking across the river, far away from 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 weaver and the cowherd meet at the Magpie Bridge. Altair and Vega Vega is a beautiful, smart, handy fairy, the mortal women will be begging 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 Festival.

People say that on the night of the seventh day of the seventh month, you can see the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden's Milky Way meeting, or you can overhear the two people meeting in the sky under the melons and fruits, when they are in love with each other.

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 to be happy or not, 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 marriage destiny.

Deconfusing Tanabata

1. Tanabata should be called China's Daughter's Day

According to legend, the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar is the day of the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden's meeting at the magpie bridge, and Tanabata has become a traditional Chinese festival. Therefore, many people have taken the Tanabata romantic Tanabata Cowherd meeting (20 pictures) as ? Chinese Valentine's Day? On August 22, 2012, Qi Shoucheng, a well-known folklorist and expert, said in an interview with Wu Shuang, a reporter from the Liaoning Evening News, that the Tanabata Festival is treated as the? Chinese Valentine's Day. is a misinterpretation of the Tanabata Festival.

Qi Shoucheng introduced, ? The festival is also known as the Beggar's Day. Festival, also known as the Beggar's Day, first originated in the Han Dynasty. The festival custom is to sunshine scripture and clothes, to the double star begging and needle begging. If you really want to give the Tanabata Festival a common name, it should be? Chinese Daughter's Day. Qi Shoucheng explained, in history? Tanabata? Festival this day, the girls who do not go out must be hand-tied colorful threads, begging for the future like the heavenly weaver as dexterous, therefore, ? Tanabata Festival? is the most important festival for girls in ancient times. The traditional activities of the Tanabata Festival is the girls with colored thread on the embroidery needle, than who's needlework done well, while setting up the fruit tribute, begging for dexterity.

2. Tanabata is mistaken for Valentine's Day

The reason why today's society will be Tanabata misinterpreted as?

The reason why today's society misinterprets Tanabata as Valentine's Day?

In fact, ? Chinese Valentine's Day? There is indeed, but not Tanabata, but the 15th day of the first month? The Lantern Festival. The first full moon of the year is celebrated on the first day of the month. According to Chinese folk tradition, on the first full-moon night of the year, people light colorful lanterns, go out to enjoy the moon, and set off fireworks. In ancient times, by the influence of feudalism, women are often not out of the door, not to step out, show their faces is not the practice of etiquette, only on the 15th of the first month of this day, can go out to stroll lanterns, young boys and girls this day to meet each other, confiding in the love of the feelings. Therefore, the first month of the fifteenth, is considered to be the real Chinese Valentine's Day.

Many merchants will be the Tanabata Festival as Valentine's Day for commercial speculation, many young people to Tanabata Festival as Valentine's Day, this practice is not only not conducive to the preservation of traditional festivals, and will be the cultural connotation of traditional festivals distorted. Including the media should publicize the cultural connotations of traditional festivals, how to live traditional festivals have a correct guidance. The reason why the Tanabata Festival is listed on the National Intangible Cultural Heritage List is that it is a festival with Chinese characteristics. We should cherish it and never lose what we have.?

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