Information about Tanabata Festival

1, Tanabata is the world's earliest love festival, Tanabata night sitting watching Altair and Vega star, visit girlfriends, worship Vega, praying for marriage, cutting female red, begging for blessings, etc., is the traditional Chinese folk Tanabata customs. In ancient times, countless men and women in love would pray to the stars for a happy marriage on the night of Tanabata when the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden met at the "Magpie Bridge".

2, Tanabata Festival originated in China, in some of the Chinese cultural influence of Asian countries such as Japan, the Korean Peninsula, Vietnam and other traditions to celebrate the Tanabata. May 20, 2006, Tanabata Festival by the People's Republic of China *** and the State Council of the State Council included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.

3. Ancient Chinese astrological culture has a long and profound history, and the ancients explored the mysteries of the universe from a very early stage, and thus deduced a set of complete and profound stargazing culture, of which "Cowherd and Weaving Maiden" is a typical example. The legend of the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden on the eve of the seventh day of the seventh month first originated from the people's worship of natural celestial phenomena.

4. As early as in ancient times, the ancient people who pursued order not only planned the sky in a well-organized manner, but also made a correspondence between the stars and the ground area one by one, and this correspondence is called "star division" in terms of astronomy and "field division" in terms of the ground. The first is the "Dual", the "Dual", the "Dual", the "Dual".