Today Is Chinese Valentine's Day

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Today Is Chinese Valentine's Day

2022-08-04 12:31:36

The Qixi Festival, also known as the Qiqiao Festival, is a Chinese festival that celebrates the annual meeting of the cowherd and weaver girl in Chinese mythology. It falls on the seventh day of the 7th month on the Chinese calendar. It is sometimes called the Double Seventh Festival, the Chinese Valentine's Day, the Night of Sevens, or the Magpie Festival.

 

What's the tradition about Qixi Festival?

On that night, unmarried girls prayed to the Weaving Maid star for the special gift.

When the star Vega was high up in the sky, girls performed a small test by placing a needle on the water's surface: If the needle did not sink, the girl was considered to be ready to find a husband.

Once a year, on this day, girls could wish for anything their hearts desired.

 

In the end,we'd like to share a poem with you!

Immortals at the Magpie Bridge

Clouds float like works of art,

Stars shoot with grief at heart,

Across the Milky Way the Cowherd meets the Maid.

When Autumn’s Golden Wind embraces Dew of Jade,

All the loves screens on earth, however many, fade.

Their tender love flows like a stream,

Their happy date seems but a dream,

How can they bear a separate homeward way?

If love between both sides can last for aye,

Why need they stay together night and day?