Is Qixi a traditional festival?

Chinese Valentine's Day is a traditional festival in China. For example, Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Qingming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Tanabata Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and Double Ninth Festival are all traditional festivals in China.

[ Festival Formation]: The traditional festivals in China are diverse in form and rich in content, and they are also an important part of the long history and culture of the Chinese nation. The origin and development of festivals is a process of gradual formation, subtle improvement and gradual infiltration into social life. Like the development of society, it is the product of the development of human civilization to a certain stage. These festivals in ancient China are related to astronomy, calendar and mathematics in Otawa, and the solar terms divided later. This can be traced back to Xia Xiaozheng and Shangshu at least in the literature to the Warring States Period. The 24 solar terms divided in a year are basically complete, and all the traditional festivals later are closely related to these solar terms. Therefore, every festival has its own origin and necessary conditions for its formation.

tanabata time: the seventh day of the seventh lunar month. The evening of the seventh day of the seventh lunar month is called "Qixi". China folk legend Cowherd and Weaver Girl meet at the Bridge of Tianhe Magpie this night. The so-called "begging for cleverness" means threading a needle with colored thread in front of Vega in the moonlight. If you can get through seven needle holes with different sizes, it will be "clever". The farmer's proverb says, "The seventh day of July is clear and bright, and the rice is cut by grinding the sickle.". It's time to sharpen the sickle and get ready to harvest early rice. Therefore, "Chinese Valentine's Day" is a traditional festival in China.

[ Custom]: Women needled Vega on Qixi night and other customs. In recent years, influenced by western countries, more and more couples in China regard that day as China Valentine's Day, and men and women will exchange gifts or go out on dates.