Tanabata Festival Time

The Tanabata Festival is one of the traditional Chinese festivals, also known as the "Cowherd and Weaver's Day" or "Chinese Valentine's Day", which is said to commemorate the story of the meeting on the Magpie Bridge. It is said to commemorate the story of the meeting of the magpies on the bridge. The Tanabata Festival falls on the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, as this is the day when the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden are said to have met. Since the lunar date is different from the solar date, the solar date of the Tanabata Festival changes every year.

The Tanabata Festival is of great significance in traditional Chinese culture as a festival for expressing love and honoring love. In contemporary times, Tanabata has become a romantic festival, and many people will celebrate this festival by giving gifts, confessing their love and dating. Whether in tradition or in modern times, the Tanabata Festival carries people's aspirations and blessings for love, and has become a day full of warmth and touching.