What is the significance of the Tanabata Festival?

The Tanabata Festival, also known as the Beggar's Day and the Daughter's Day, is a traditional Chinese festival that comes from the legend of the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden and is celebrated on the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar.

In ancient times, women would offer sacrifices to the Seven Sisters on their birthdays, praying for dexterity and a good marriage. This is the origin of the name "Begging for coincidence". Women will also be five-color thread to the moon and wind through the needle, into the for the long time.

Over time, Tanabata also became the "Daughter's Day". The Tanabata Festival to the Cowherd and Weaving Maiden folklore as a carrier, the expression of the married man and woman will not leave each other, old age emotions, abide by the promise of love.