China Qixi Festival 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 Chinese Valentine’s Day.
On the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, the love story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl has a long history called the “Chinese Valentine’s Day”, making Qixi Festival the most romantic traditional festival in China. On May 20, 2006, the Qixi Festival was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list by the State Council of the People’s Republic of China.
The Qixi Festival originated in China and is a traditional festival in the Chinese region and East Asian countries. The festival comes from the legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl. It is celebrated on the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar (it was changed to July 7th in the solar calendar after the Meiji Restoration). Because of this day The main participants of the activity are girls, and the content of the festival activities is mainly about begging for cleverness, so people call this day “Qi Qiao Festival” or “Girls’ Day” or “Girls’ Day”. On May 20, 2006, Tanabata was The State Council of China is included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage lists. The Qixi Festival uses the folklore of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl as a carrier to express the feelings of “never abandoning and growing old together between married men and women” and abide by the promise of love between both parties. Over time, Qixi Festival has now become Chinese Valentine’s Day.
In “The Nineteen Ancient Poems” in “Nine Bull Stars”, the Morning Bull and the Weaver Girl are already a pair of lovers who admire each other. Since then, through the “processing” of the literati, this celestial legend has become more full and vivid. In the classic play of Huangmei Opera “The Match of the Immortals”, the ancients’ imagination of the astrology has been almost perfectly integrated with a folk farmer named Dong Yong. It became a human love tragedy, which is now known as the legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl. In modern times, the beautiful love legend of “Cowherd and Weaver Girl” was given to the Chinese Valentine’s Day in modern times, which made it a festival of symbolic love and gave birth to the cultural meaning of “Chinese Valentine’s Day”. Although the Chinese Qixi Festival was born much earlier than the Western Valentine’s Day, and it has been circulated among the people for a long time, but currently among young people, the Qixi Festival is not as favored as the Western Valentine’s Day. Folklore experts said that compared with foreign festivals, traditional festivals such as Tanabata have more potential to be tapped in culture and connotation. If romantic, warm, and entertaining elements are incorporated into traditional festivals, traditional festivals can be even more exciting.
Post time: Aug-14-2021