Bilingual Story:Tanabata is a Traditional Festival of Chinese National Characteristics (Chinese-English Version)

August 26, 2009 (the seventh day of the seventh lunar month) is the Tanabata Festival in China. Folklore experts say that the Tanabata, also known as the Beggar's Tree Festival, is a traditional festival very much characterized by the Chinese nation, and the only traditional festival in which women are the main protagonists.

Raise your head on August 26 and gaze at the stars

you will find something romantic going on in the sky. On August 26, lift your head and look up at the sky, and you will find a romantic astronomical spectacle in the sky.

VALENTINE'S Day in China

the seventh day of the seventh lunar month

falls on August 7 this year. evening

Niu Lang and Zhi Nu will meet on a bridge of magpies across the Milky Way. Chinese grannies will remind children that they would not be able to see any magpies on that evening because all the magpies have left to form a bridge in the heavens with their wings.

Luoshuwei, a researcher at the Tianjin Academy of Social Sciences, said the seventh day of the seventh month of the Chinese lunar calendar is commonly known as the Beggar's Day, and some people call it the "Tanabata Festival" and "Daughter's Festival. "Tanabata Begging", that is, the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, while the Cowherd and Weaver Girl magpie bridge meeting, young women to the ingenious Weaver Girl begging for a pair of skillful hands and a pair of skillful, beg her to teach their spinning, weaving, sewing handicrafts.

On the origin of "begging for coincidence", Ge Hong of the Eastern Jin Dynasty wrote in "Miscellaneous Records of the Western Capital": "Han colored women often wear seven-hole needles on the seventh day of the seventh month in the lapel jacket, and people are all accustomed to it." This is now we see in the ancient literature, on the "begging" of the earliest records.

The Beggar's Nest is a women's festival. In ancient times, people attached great importance to the annual custom of begging for coincidences, and the various contents and forms are also very interesting. The way of begging for coincidences, the pattern of successive dynasties continue to renovate, the customs of different places are also different. The custom of "divination of coquettishness" is to ask a woman whether she will be stupid or skillful in the future. The most widely circulated custom is "threading a needle to the moon", also known as "playing Qiaoqiao". This is the earliest form of begging for coquettish gifts, which began in the Han Dynasty. That is, the women's race to wear a needle, they knot colorful thread, wear seven-hole needle, who wear the faster, it means who begged to the more coquettish. Wear slow known as "lose coincidence". The "losing" person has to give the pre-prepared gift to the winner.

In addition, to determine the coincidence of the beggar's "divining coincidence" method, there are "casting a needle to check the coincidence", "happy spider should be coincidental", "coincidental vegetable

These are the methods of "divination" and "throwing pins to check the coincidence", "the spider should be coincidence", "coincidence dish", etc.