Romantic Idioms of Valentine's Day in China

The answer to the idiom "Tanabata Romance" is as follows:

Forever, fly with me, the seas run dry and the rocks crumble, and love is stronger than gold.

Love at first sight, full moon night, affectionate, especially like, together for a long time.

Wholeheartedly, two of a kind, all my life, sincere, and sincere.

Heart to heart, kindness and love, jealousy, inseparable, a match made in heaven.

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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.

China Valentine's Day, which evolved from star worship, is a traditional Chinese Valentine's Day birthday. Because of the worship of Seven Sisters on the seventh day of July, it was named Qixi.

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.

folk custom

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In Yixing, Jiangsu Province, there is the custom of the Qixi Xiangqiao Festival. Every year on Tanabata, someone will participate and build a fragrant bridge. The so-called incense bridge is a bridge with a length of four or five meters and a width of about half a meter, which is made of all kinds of thick and long incense-wrapped paper. It is equipped with railings and decorated with flowers made of five-color lines.

At night, people offered sacrifices to the binary star, prayed for good luck, and then burned the incense bridge, symbolizing that the binary star had crossed the incense bridge and met happily. This fragrant bridge originated from the legendary magpie bridge legend.

Dew contact

In rural areas of Zhejiang, it is popular to use washbasins to receive dew. Legend has it that the dew on Tanabata is the tears when cowherd and weaver girl meet. If you put it in your eyes and hands, it can make people agile.

Nail painting

Nail dyeing is the custom of Qixi Festival, which is popular in southwest China. According to the Records of Yanting County, Mianyang, Sichuan, children dyed their nails with impatiens during the begging festival on July 7. Girls use alum to pick petals, crush alum, and stick it on the nails of hands and feet together with the petals. After a certain period of time, nails are rosy, bright and natural, and it is said that they will not fade for several months.