The origin, process, result and influence of tanabata.

Valentine's Day in China originated from the folk story "Cowherd and Weaver Girl". Legend has it that the annual meeting of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl on the Magpie Bridge is on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, and because the Weaver Girl has a pair of skillful hands that can weave clouds, the folk girls hope to see the aura of the Weaver Girl, so they "seek cleverness" on the Tanabata of that day. To this day, Tanabata is still a traditional festival full of romance. However, many customs have weakened or disappeared, and only the legend of Cowherd and Weaver Girl, which symbolizes loyal love, has been circulated among the people.

Valentine's Day in China: The seventh day of the seventh lunar month, commonly known as Qixi, also known as Daughter's Day and Daughter's Day.

The most common custom of Valentine's Day in China is all kinds of begging activities carried out by girls on the evening of July 7th.

In the old customs, on the night of the seventh day of the seventh lunar month (or the night of the sixth day of the seventh lunar month), girls in new clothes beg for wisdom and cleverness from the Weaver Girl in the yard, which is called "begging for cleverness". Most girls try their best to make small things and put some melons and fruits on them. Different regions have different ways to please others, and each has its own interests. In modern times, threading needles, steaming steamed bread, branding proper fruit, making clever buds, and decorations made of dough sculpture, paper-cutting and colored embroidery are also an extension of the custom of begging for cleverness.

Tanabata in Han dynasty

In the Han dynasty, women put a small spider (called fruit in ancient times) in a box, which is characterized by its dense web. In the Tang Dynasty, they put spiders on melons. In the Song and Yuan Dynasties, the needle in the water was clumsy, slender was clever, and scattered was clumsy.

Now tanabata

Nowadays, most of the ways to get smart are for girls to try their best to make small things and put some melons and fruits on them. Different regions have different ways to please others, and each has its own interests.

The story of the meeting of the Cowherd and the Weaver Maid in Queqiao praised the faithful love, condensed people's hopes for a happy family and pinned their hopes for a better life. It played an increasingly important role in social life, with rich cultural connotations and condensed the cultural blood and ideological essence of the Chinese nation, and became an important festival to promote family harmony, social harmony and national unity.

According to historical materials and cultural relics, Doumen in Chang 'an is one of the important places where the legend of Cowherd and Weaver Girl spreads. Chinese Valentine's Day's cultural tradition and its rich expressions of folk culture contain China people's pure aesthetic ideals and beautiful life aspirations. The legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, the legend of Meng Jiangnv, the legend of the White Snake and the legend of Liang Zhu have become the "Four Legends" of China.

This year in Chinese Valentine's Day, China Folk Writers and Artists Association invited famous domestic experts and cultural scholars to gather in Doumen, Chang 'an, to pay homage to the stone statue of the Cowherd and the Weaver Maid of the Han Dynasty, which was regarded as a god by local people, and to experience the grand occasion of folk commemorative activities. They saw that the local people were deeply influenced by this festival, with stable families and harmonious couples. According to the fact that this festival has a far-reaching influence in the whole country, experts believe that making the annual "Qixi Festival" a national statutory holiday can not only inherit and carry forward the excellent traditional culture of the Chinese nation, but also help to better build a harmonious society and enhance the cultural consciousness and self-confidence of the whole people.