August 25, the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, is also the annual Qixi Festival, which is a traditional Chinese festival.Although originally a festival to commemorate qi Jie, it has gradually developed into a "Valentine's Day" with Chinese characteristics. On this day, most couples choose to go out for a date, which is a true celebration of love.So today xiaobian brought some small knowledge about the Chinese Valentine's Day, let's get to know it together.
The origin of Qixi Festival
The Double Seventh Festival originated from a traditional Chinese folk story "The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl". The cowherd and the Weaver Girl met, became acquainted with each other, and fell in love with each other. However, due to the difference between gods and goddesses, they were beaten by the Queen mother, so that they could only look at each other across the Milky Way.Legend has it that the annual meeting of cowherd and Weaver maid is on the 7th day of the 7th lunar month, so that this day will be as the Double Seventh Festival.
The customs of Qixi Festival
The custom of the festival very much, different regions have different characteristics, mainly has the bridge will, dew, worship seven sister swim, dou qiao, beg for marriage, the seven sister, son of raw water, Chinese water storage, for NiuQingSheng, seven qiao gong case, ying xian worship, worship the cowherd, kuixing mother, thanks to the bed, the dye nails, Chinese observers, listen to the whispers, water purification, beside the red rope, girl to wash hair, bask in clothes, ligation qiao gu drink, play music, and so on, is very interesting.
An ancient poem about the Qixi Festival
There are a lot of ancient Chinese poems on Qixi Festival. The ancient people exerted their perceptual power on this day and created one after another pieces of ancient Chinese poems on qixi Festival. Let's enjoy a piece of ancient Chinese poems on Qixi Festival that we are all very familiar with.
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