Qixi Festival
time:Oct 19,2016
Chinese people love to talk about the "seven stars" and "seven places"; people's feelings have "seven emotions": happy, angery, worry, miss, sad, fear, shock; the color has "seven colors"; music has "seven sounds": Gong, shang, jiao, zhi, yu, biangong, bianzhi; poetry has seven-law poems; people have "seven scorpions"; pagodas have seven layers, and seven fairies in the sky, seven treasures in the world (gold, silver, glaze, broken urn, agate, amber, coral), seven souls, seven out, etc.
When it comes to Qixi, the first reaction of people is that the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl meet, make it as the Chinese Valentine's Day.
A little check on some of the information, you can know that Qixi is indeed closely related to the legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, but there is no intention of Valentine's Day, but it is more about plead for the intelligence from nature. On this festival, the women will visit close friends, worship the Weaver Girl, and learn theembroidery, praying for blessing, etc, they are happy and entertaining, so in a strict sense, Qixi Festival should be called "Girl's Day."
However, Because of the famous poet Bai Juyi of the Tang Dynasty, the Qixi Festival became synonymous with the love, and never got rid of the "Valentine's Day", which is not a very accurate label. As a result, there are still so many men and women who still enjoy it, "Tell it from the heart under the grape trellis" on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month.
