Qixi Festival, also known as Qiqiao Festival, Qijie Festival, Girls’ Festival, Qiqiao Festival, Qinianghui, Qixi Festival, Niu Gong Niu Po Day, Qiao Xi, etc., is a traditional Chinese folk festival. The Qixi Festival is derived from the worship of the stars and is the birthday of the Seventh Sister in the traditional sense. Because the worship of the “Seventh Sister” is held on the seventh night of the seventh month, it is named “Qixi”. Worshiping the Seventh Sister, praying for blessings, begging for skillful arts, sitting and watching Altair Vega, praying for marriage, and storing Qixi water are the traditional customs of Qixi Festival. Through historical development, Qixi Festival has been endowed with the beautiful love legend of “The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl”, making it a festival that symbolizes love, and is considered to be the most romantic traditional festival in China. cultural meaning.
The Qixi Festival is not only a festival to worship the seventh sister, but also a festival of love. It is a comprehensive festival with the folklore of “The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl” as the carrier, with the theme of praying for blessings, begging for skill and love, and with women as the main body. The “Cowherd and Weaver Girl” of Qixi Festival comes from people’s worship of natural astronomical phenomena. In ancient times, people corresponded astronomical star areas and geographical areas. Divide”. Legend has it that on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl meet on the Magpie Bridge in the sky.
The Qixi Festival started in ancient times, popularized in the Western Han Dynasty, and flourished in the Song Dynasty. In ancient times, Qixi Festival was an exclusive festival for beautiful girls. Among the many folk customs of Qixi Festival, some gradually disappeared, but a considerable part was continued by people. The Qixi Festival originated in China, and some Asian countries influenced by Chinese culture, such as Japan, the Korean Peninsula, and Vietnam, also have the tradition of celebrating the Qixi Festival. 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.
Post time: Jul-28-2022