[Our holiday · Qixi New Year] Our festival, Chinese -style "romance"

Today is the Tanabata Festival

One of the oldest traditional festivals in my country

Let's go with civilization first

Read a group of Qixi poems

Feel the romantic feelings of the ancients

Qixi Festival

Also known as Qiqiao Festival, Qiqiao Festival

On the night of July 7th of the lunar calendar every year

Women begged the weaver actress in the courtyard

So it is called "Qiqiao"

Later, the legend of the cowherd and weaver girl

Make it a festival symbolizing love

Qixi Festival origin

Qixi Festival was the earliest people

Sacrifice to the festival of Seven Sister (Weaver Actress)

legend

Sister Seven is the weaven's weaving expert

It is weaving clouds and textilers

It is the protector of couples, women, and children

It can be said that the Tanabata Festival is derived from

People's worship of nature, time and numbers

With people's observation of astronomical astronomical phenomena

And the generation of textile technology, etc.

Prayer and other festivals such as Qixi Festival gradually appear

Qixi Festival custom

The Qixi Festival is not just

Legend of Cowherd Weaver Love

There are also colorful traditional customs

The most common is

Various beggar activities performed by women

The way of begging in various places are different

Everyone

Jiangsu: Xiangqiao Club

In Yixing and other places in Jiangsu

Every year

People are equipped with "Xiangqiao"

Sacrify double stars, begging for blessing

Then incinerate "Xiangqiao"

Symbol of the double star meeting

This "Xiangqiao" is legendary

The legend of the Qiaoqiao comes from

Zhejiang: Dew water

Part of Zhejiang

There is a custom of using a washbasin to connect with water

Legend has the dew

It is the tears of the cowherd weaver girl meeting

If you wipe it on your eyes and your hands

Can make people look fast

Shandong: Eat Qiaoqiao Rice

Shandong Tancheng, Caoxian, Plain and other plains

There is a custom of eating ingenuity and begging

Seven good girls

Grain collection and vegetable dumplings

Put a money, one needle, a red dates

Pocket into three dumplings

After begging activity

They gather together to eat dumplings

It is said that the blessing of eating money

The hand of the needle

There is a good marriage for those who eat jujube

Guangdong: Yingxian

Guangzhou, Guangdong

On the sixth day of July and July of the lunar calendar

Girls wear new clothes

Put on new jewelry, burn incense and candle

Kneeling to the starry sky is called "Yingxian"

From three to five more, worship seven times and seven times

Girls hold color lines

Put the line through the light and shadow through the light and shadow

It is clever to wear seven stitches in one breath

Known as a clever hand

Missing can gather into a river

If you can reunite for a long time

There are always years, it is worth waiting for

Four seasons rotation, waiting still

The beauty of the Tanabata Festival

Is the romance in the bones of the Chinese

Tonight, will you begging?

Source ｜ China Civilization Network Guangming.com China News Network Nanjing Daily

Edit ｜ Gu Yihan

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