What does the Tanabata Festival symbolize

The Tanabata Festival symbolizes love, Tanabata is endowed with "Cowherd and Weaving Maiden" beautiful love legend, making it a festival symbolizing love, which is considered to be China's most romantic traditional festivals, in the contemporary era is the "Chinese Valentine's Day" of the cultural meaning of the festival. In contemporary times, it has the cultural meaning of "Chinese Valentine's Day". The Tanabata Festival began in ancient times, popularized in the Western Han Dynasty, and flourished in the Song Dynasty. on May 20, 2006, the Tanabata Festival was listed in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage by the State Council of the People's Republic of China*** and the State Council of the People's Republic of China.

Introduction of Tanabata Festival

The Tanabata Festival, a traditional Chinese festival, is also known as Qixiao Festival, Seven Sisters' Festival, Daughters' Festival, Beggar's Festival, Seven Maidens' Meeting, Tanabata Festival, Bull Bull's Day, Qiao Xi, etc. It is a traditional Chinese folk festival. The Tanabata Festival is derived from the worship of the starry hosts and is traditionally known as the Tanabata Festival, which is named Tanabata because the worship of the Tanabata Festival is held on the seventh day of the seventh month. Worshipping the Seven Sisters, praying for blessings and making wishes, begging for skillful arts, sitting and watching the Altair and Vega stars, praying for marriage, and storing water for Tanabata are the traditional customs of Tanabata. Through the development of history, Tanabata has been endowed with the beautiful love legend of "Cowherd and Weaving Maiden", making it a festival symbolizing love, which is considered the most romantic traditional festival in China, and in contemporary times, it has even produced the cultural meaning of "Chinese Valentine's Day".

Origin of the Tanabata Festival

The Tanabata Festival began in the Western Han Dynasty and flourished in the Song Dynasty. In ancient times, the Tanabata Festival was an exclusive festival for beautiful women. Among the many folklore of Tanabata, some of them have gradually disappeared, but there are still quite a few of them that have been carried on by people. The Tanabata Festival originated in China, and is also celebrated in some Asian countries influenced by Chinese culture, such as Japan, the Korean Peninsula, Vietnam, etc. On May 20, 2006, the Tanabata Festival was inscribed on the list of the first batch of national intangible cultural heritages by the State Council of the People's Republic of China and the State Council of the People's Republic of China. 2007, the Tanabata Tribute Ceremony was listed on the list of Guangdong Intangible Cultural Heritage.

The Tanabata Festival was listed in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage by the State Council of the People's Republic of China.

Dietary customs of the Tanabata Festival

The dietary customs of the Tanabata Festival vary from place to place, and are generally referred to as eating coquettish food. The word "skillful" vividly describes the uniqueness of the food customs of the Tanabata Festival and expresses people's good wishes of pursuing dexterity, family well-being and a happy life. The main food and drink are:

1, coquettish fruit: the Tanabata festival begging food, coquettish fruit is the most famous.

2, sugar: in some parts of China's pastry store, this day will also make some of the image of the Weaving Maiden sugar, commonly known as "Qiaoren" "Qiao Crisp".