Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Traditional stories - Play an idiom on Tanabata

Play an idiom on Tanabata

Tanabata plays an idiom: love at first sight.

Love at first sight (pinyin: y:Jian rúgù) is an idiom derived from a historical story, and the related allusions of the idiom first appeared in Zuozhuan Twenty-nine Years of Xianggong. The original meaning of "love at first sight" is to meet for the first time just like old friends. It describes your love at first sight. This idiom is often used as predicate, attribute and adverbial in sentences. With praise. He also said, "I feel old at first sight."

China Valentine's Day, also known as Qiaoqi Festival, Qijie Festival, Daughter's Day, Beggar's Day, Chinese Valentine's Day, Niuniu Festival and Qiaoxi Festival, is a traditional folk festival in China. Valentine's Day in China evolved from the worship of the stars, and it is Seven Sisters's birthday in the traditional sense. Because of the worship of Seven Sisters on the seventh day of July, it was named Tanabata.

It is the traditional custom of Qixi to worship the seven sisters, pray, seek skillful art, sit and watch morning glory and weave stars, pray for marriage and store water on Qixi. After historical development, Tanabata has been endowed with the beautiful love legend of "Cowherd and Weaver Girl", making it a festival symbolizing love, thus being regarded as the most romantic traditional festival in China, and even having the cultural meaning of "China Valentine's Day" in contemporary times.

Valentine's Day in China is not only a festival to worship Seven Sisters, but also a festival of love. It is a comprehensive festival with the folk custom of "Cowherd and Weaver Girl" as the carrier, with the theme of blessing, begging and courtship, and women as the main body. The "Cowherd and Weaver Girl" on Tanabata comes from people's worship of natural phenomena. In ancient times, people corresponded the planetarium with geographical areas, and this correspondence was called "dividing stars" in astronomy.

The origin of the festival:

The ancient astrology culture in China has a long history and is profound. The ancients began to explore the mysteries of the universe from a very young age, and thus deduced a complete and profound star-watching culture. Cowherd and Weaver Girl is a typical example. The legend of Cowherd and Weaver Girl on Tanabata originates from people's worship of natural phenomena. As early as ancient times, the ancients who pursued order not only planned the sky in an orderly way.

The stars are mapped to the ground area one by one. This correspondence is called "dividing star" in astronomy and "dividing line" in underground. Simply put, the ancients corresponded each constellation in the sky with the physical geographical area on the ground. The purpose of ancient star division and demarcation is mainly to cooperate with astrology theory for astronomical observation.