What kind of festival is Chinese Valentine's Day?

Qixi Festival is the traditional Chinese Valentine's Day, which falls on the seventh day of July every year.

Chinese Valentine's Day, also known as "Qiqiao Festival, Qiqiao Festival or Seventh Sister's Birthday", is a traditional cultural festival popular in China and other countries in the Chinese character cultural circle. According to legend, women beg for wisdom from Vega in the courtyard on the night of July 7 or July 6 of the lunar calendar.

, so it is called "begging for cleverness".

Qixi Festival begging for skillful things first originated in the Han Dynasty of China. At that time, people worshiped nature and women begged for skillful needlework. After being given the legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, it became one of the most romantic festivals.

Women perform needlework, beg for skills, pray for good fortune and longevity, worship the Seventh Sister, display flowers and fruits, and display red flowers and other customs.

Every July 7th of the lunar calendar, when the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl meet on the Magpie Bridge, girls will come to the flowers and under the moon, look up at the stars, look for Altair and Vega on both sides of the Milky Way, hoping to see their annual meeting, and beg to God.

You can make yourself as ingenious as the Weaver Girl, and pray that you can have a happy marriage and beautiful love as you wish, thus forming the Qixi Festival.