Legend of Cowherd and Weaver girl and the origin of Valentine's Day on Chinese Valentine's Day

Tanabata: the seventh evening of July

The origin of Qiqiao festival on Chinese Valentine's Day

Qixi Festival introduction:

On the night of lunar July 7 in China, the weather is warm and the grass and wood are fragrant. This is what people call Qixi Festival.
Festival or female Festival, which is the most romantic festival in Traditional Chinese festivals and is also the day most emphasized by girls in the past.

On a clear summer and autumn night, stars are shining in the sky. A white galaxy spans the North and South, and there is a shining star on the east and west sides of the river.
The stars are located across the river, far away, that is, the stars and the Weaver stars.

On the evening of the Chinese Valentine's Day, it is a folk customs. It is said that on the evening of every year, it is the time when the Weaver girl and the cowherd meet at Magpie Bridge.
The Weaver girl is a beautiful, smart, and ingenious fairy. On this evening, women from all over the world begged her for wisdom and skill.
Therefore, July lunar July 7 is also known as Qiqiao festival.

It is said that on the evening of the Chinese Valentine's Day, we can see the galaxy meeting of the Cowherd and Weaver girl, or we can hear them in the sky when they meet.
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On this romantic evening, girls put seasonal fruits on the bright moon in the sky, worship the day, and pray for the goddess in the sky.
They can give them a smart mind and smart hands, so that they can be skillful in Knitting Female techniques, and even more begging for the lucky match of love and marriage. Past marriage
For women, it is a lifelong event that determines whether a person is happy or not. Therefore, countless passionate men and women will stay at night and stay at night,
Pray to the stars for a happy marriage.

About "the origins of Chinese Valentine's Day ":

Qixi Qiqiao, this holiday originated from the Han Dynasty. The "Xijing miscellaneous" in the East Jin Ge Hong's "the Chinese Color female often wore a seven-hole needle in the opening of the building in July 7,
This is the earliest record about Qiqiao that we have seen in the ancient literature. Later in Tang and Song dynasties
Coincidentally, he was also repeatedly mentioned. The Tang Dynasty Wang jianyoushi said, "The Stars and the stars are decorated with Pearl, and the Qixi Gong Yi is very busy ". According to Kaiyuan Tianbao: Tang Taizong
On the Chinese Valentine's Day in the Qing Palace Banquet, the ladies of the palace were both coquetry, and the Customs continued from generation to generation.

On the occasion of the Song Dynasty, Qixi Qiqiao was very grand. The city also had a market dedicated to Qiqiao items. Song luye, Jin yingzhi
"Qixi, Pan Lou purchased and sold Qiqiao things. Since July 22, July 1, the vehicle and horse were swallowed up, and the first three days of the Chinese Valentine's Day, the vehicle and horse did not pass
Times, no longer come, to the evening ." Here, you can know the excitement of the Qiqiao festival on the seventh day of the Chinese Valentine's Day when you purchase the shopping spree from the city of Qiqiao.
Scene. People began to purchase Qiqiao items in lunar July 1. The city of Qiqiao was busy with traffic and people were busy.
It's just a sea of people. It seems like the greatest festival-Spring Festival, which shows that Qiqiao festival is the favorite of the ancients.
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Legend of Cowherd and Weaver girl

Qixi Festival has always been connected with the legend of the Cowherd and Weaver girl. This is a beautiful love story that has been circulating throughout the ages and has become the four most popular folk love stories in China.
Legend 1.

It is said that a long time ago, there was a smart, loyal young man in the niujiashuang village in the west of Nanyang City. His parents died early, so he had to spend time with his brother and sister-in-law.
He was often abused and forced to do a lot of work. In the fall of the year, he was forced to let him go and give him nine cows, but let him wait.
When there were ten cows, the cowherd had to rush out of the village.

Niu Lang drove his ox into the mountains by himself. On the mountain of Shen Lin Mi, he sat down under the tree and felt sad. He did not know when to rush ten cows home,
At this moment, an old man with white hair appeared in front of him and asked him why he was sad. After learning about his experience, he smiled and said to him, "Don't be sad,
There is a sick old ox in the funiu mountains. You should feed it well. When the old ox is ill, you can rush it home.

Niu Lang climbed through the mountains and walked a long way. Finally, he found the faulty old ox. When he saw that the old ox was very ill, he went to give it to the old ox.
Bundle the grass and feed it for three days. When the old ox is full, he raises his head and tells him that he is a gray ox in the sky, and is degraded to the next day for violating the rules of heaven.
Come, broken leg, unable to move. It takes a month for your injury to take good care of the old ox.
One month, The White Day for the old ox flowers and dew treatment, neighborhood in the elderly side to sleep at night, after the old ox is ill, Niu Lang happily rushed to ten cows
I went home.

When I got home, I was still not good to him. I tried to save him for several times, and I finally threw myself out of the house,
As long as the old ox goes with each other.

One day, the Weaver girl in the sky and the fairies went into the game and took a bath in the river. The cowherd met the Weaver girl with the help of the old ox.
Later, the Weaver girl secretly went to the world and became the wife of Niu Lang. The Weaver also gives the silkworms from the sky to you and teaches you how to raise
Silkworms, shredded silk, and bright silk.

After the Cowherd and the Weaver girl got married, the male and female were very fond. They gave birth to a male and a female with two children, and the family lived happily. But good
Jing is not long, this matter soon let the Emperor knows, the mother-in-law of the queen-mother in person to come, forcibly bring the Weaver girl back to the sky, love husband and wife were split.

The cowherd has no way over the sky, or the old ox told the cowherd that after its death, it can use its skin to make shoes and wear it to go to heaven. Niu Lang follows the old ox
If you do it, put on the shoes made of cowhide, pull your children, and fly together to chase the Weaver girl. You will catch it when you see it.
As soon as the daughter-in-law took off her head and waved her head, a choppy Tianhe river appeared. The cowherd and the Weaver girl were separated on both sides of the Strait, and they could only cry. They
The Loyal Love is touched by Magpie. Tens of millions of magpies fly and build a magpie bridge to let the Cowherd and Weaver girl embark on the Magpie Bridge to meet each other. This is also helpless, only
So that they can meet at Magpie Bridge in July 7 each year.

Later, every lunar July 7, it is said that the days when the Cowherd and Weaver girl meet, the girls will come to the flowers before the moon, and look up at the stars,
Search for the coolorang stars and the Weaver girl on both sides of the galaxy, hoping to see their annual meeting, and pray that God can make himself as a weaver girl
Coincidentally, pray that you can have a happy marriage, which forms the Qixi Festival.

Qiqiao Qixi's Customs:

The most common practice of Qixi Festival is the various Qiqiao activities performed by women on the evening of lunar July 7.

Most of the methods are as clever as girls wear a needle and try to make small items, and put some fruits on them.
Try the same and have fun.

In Jinan, Shandong Province, Huimin, Gao Qing, and other places, the Qiqiao activity is very simple. It only shows the fruits of the melons.
It's a coincidence. However, it is interesting to eat a clever meal in cities, Cao County, plain, and other places: seven good girls collect food and dumplings,
Package A copper coin, a needle, and a red jujube into three dumplings respectively. After the Qiqiao activity, they get together to eat dumplings.
Blessed, the hand of the needle, the early marriage of the date.

In some places, the Qiqiao festival activities carry the nature of competition, similar to the ancient customs of the clever. Modern needle-wearing leads, steamed coincidence
Fruit, there are also some places have the habit of doing the sprout soup, generally in lunar July 1 will soak the grain in the water sprout, on the Chinese Valentine's Day, cut the sprout make the soup, the local
Children pay special attention to the evolution of huqiao customs as well as decorations made in the form of surface sculpture, paper-cutting, and color embroidery. The shepherd boy will
On the seventh day of the Chinese Valentine's Day, wild flowers are picked and hang on the ox's horn ).

Zhucheng, tengxian, Zou County called the rain of the Chinese Valentine's Day "xiangsiyu" or "Acacia tears", because it was caused by the meeting of Cowherd and Weaver girl. Jiaodong,
It is said that there were very few magpies on the day, and they all went to the sky to build magpie bridges.

Similar Qiqiao customs still exist in different parts of Zhejiang today. For example, in Hangzhou, Ningbo, and Wenzhou, various small things are made with flour on this day.
After frying, the oil is called "Qiao Guo". In the evening, Qiao Guo, Lian Peng, Bai Gen, and hongling are displayed in the courtyard. The girl takes a needle in the moon to pray that the Weaver girl will give a coincidence
Technology, or catch a spider, put it in a box. The next day, the box was as clever as it had been built into a network.

In the rural area of Shaoxing, many girls secretly hid in the flourishing pumpkin shed this night, and could hear it at night
When the Cowherd and the Weaver girl meet, the young girl to be married will be able to get the love of this millennium.

In order to express the desire of the Cowherd and the Weaver girl to live a happy family every day, in Jinhua, Zhejiang Province, in July 7
Killing a chicken means that the Cowherd and the Weaver girl will meet each other this night. If there is no cock reporting, they will never be separated.

In the western part of Guangxi, it is said that on the morning of October July 7, the fairy will take a bath and drink its bath water to avoid evil diseases and prolong life. This water name is "Double Seven Water", people
During this day's Dash, I rushed to fetch water by the river, and then I picked it up with a new shard for future use.

The Qiqiao festival in Guangzhou is unique. Before the Festival arrives, the girls prepare colored paper, grass, and wire ropes in advance, and compile them into various
Will also put grain and mung bean into a small box soaked in water, so that it sprout, when the bud grows to more than two-inch length, used to worship God, called "Worship
Xianhe and baishencai ". From the evening of the sixth day to the evening of the seventh day, two nights in a row, girls put on new clothes, wear new jewelry, everything is arranged
After that, I burned incense and began to bow to the stars, known as "Yingxian". from three to five, I had to worship for seven times.

After the fairy, the girls hand colored lines to the Shadow line through the pinhole, such as one breath can wear seven pinhole known as clever, wearing
There are less than seven pinholes, which are a coincidence. After the Chinese Valentine's Day, the girls presented their little crafts and toys to each other to show their friendship.

In Fujian, during Chinese Valentine's Day, the Weaver girl needs to enjoy and taste the fruits, so that she can bless the next year's fruits. Supply includes tea, wine, fresh fruit,
Five seeds (longan, red dates, hazelnuts, peanuts, melon seeds), flowers and women's make-up pollen and an incense burner. Usually after the bath,
Everyone turned to worship incense in front of the table and pray silently. Women are not only beggars, but also beggars, qishou, qimei and Qianyi love. Then
While eating fruit, drinking tea, chatting, and playing the game, there are two types of games: bu Qiao, that is, it is a coincidence to ask yourself with Bu Qiao;
The other is the competition coincidence, that is, whoever wears a needle to lead fast, who gets a coincidence, the slow said "A Coincidence", the "A Coincidence" will give a small gift prepared in advance
Clever.

In some regions, the "Seven Sisters meeting" is also organized, and the "Seven Sisters meeting" in various regions are gathered in the zongxiang hall to present a variety of bright incense cases.
The Weaver girl and the "incense case" are all papery. The case is filled with flowers, fruits, rouge powder, paper-made small-sized floral clothes, shoes, daily necessities and embroidery, etc. Lin
Wide array. Different regions of the "Seven Sisters" will work in the xiangting case, high ratio, to see who made exquisite. Today, such activities have been forgotten,
Only a very small number of clan township clubs still set up incense cases in this festival to worship the Cowherd and Weaver girl. Xiang case is generally ready in May lunar July 7, and will begin in the evening
The Weaver girl is lucky.

Qixi's Qiqiao Food Festival is the most famous for its skill. Qiao Guo, also known as "Qiqiao fruit", has many styles. The main materials are oil, surface, sugar,
Honey. "Tokyo dream Hua Lu" is called "Laughter", "fruit food patterns", the pattern is fragrant, FANG Sheng and so on. During the Song Dynasty, there were seven
Xiqiao fruit for sale, the method of Qiao fruit is: first put sugar in the pot melted into syrup, and then into the flour, sesame seeds, mix well, spread on thin, dry
After cooling, use a knife to cut into a long square, and finally fold into a spindle shaped fruit embryo, enter the oil and fry it to Golden. Hand-made women will also create various legends with Tanabata
Related patterns. In addition, there are also a variety of changes in the use of melon fruits: or the melon fruit is carved into a strange flower, or on the surface of the melon skin embossed pattern; this kind
Melons are called "melons ".

Till today, Tanabata is still a traditional romantic holiday. However, many customs activities have been weakened or disappeared, but they only represent Loyal Love.
The legend of Cowherd and Weaver girl has been circulating in the Chinese people.

The poems of Qixi Festival:

One of the 19th Ancient Poems
(Han) nickname
The ghost is the star of the monkey, and the ghost is a Chinese girl.
Slim touch hands, ZHA get machine tips.
Day after day is not complete, weeping like rain.
The river and the Han Dynasty are shallow.
The pulse is speechless.

Tanabata
(Five generations · houtang) Yang Pu
Will not take the opportunity, please invite the Weaver girl to get the golden shuttle.
There are already many opportunities in the world.

Tanabata
(Tang) Quan Deyu
Today, yundu Magpie Bridge should be non-pulse and difficult.
The family was overjoyed with the makeup mirror.

Tanabata
(Tang) Xu Ning
A Magpie Bridge is ethereal, and thousands of Yu Pei has passed Lingling.
Don't leave for those who are still busy, and hope they are not as good as the Hegu star.

Magpie Bridge fairy
(Song) Qin Guan
Slim cloud makes a coincidence, and the Flying Stars hate each other.
When Jin Feng Yu Lu meets each other, there will be countless wins.
Tenderness is like water, and a period of time is like a dream!
If you have two emotions for a long time, you will be in the Twilight!

Tanabata drunk answer Jun Dong
(Ming) Tang Xianzu
Yu mingtang opened the spring screen and sang the new word "Peony Pavilion".
No one will beat me again, and I will teach Xiao from the tan mark.

Hanzhuang smart boat Tanabata
(Qing) Yao
The Mulan paddles are filled with flowers, and the singing Hall is red, evening, and cool.
Yanwailiusi lake outside the water, Shan Mei Yi biyuemei yellow.