Tanabata, what is it?

When it comes to Qixi Festival, everyone generally believes that

Tanabata

It is a festival to commemorate the love of the cattle and weaver girls,

Everyone will naturally think of

"Chinese Valentine's Day" -the Bridge Club, Dingqing,

Watching the stars complained with each other, receiving gifts ...

In fact, incomplete correctness!

So,

What is the origin of Qixi Festival?

What other custom habits?

Come and understand together

Tanabata,

This traditional festival of our country ↓↓↓

Tanabata · Small knowledge

In 2006, the Qixi Festival was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage lists, which is a traditional festival of the people in my country.

The Qixi Festival we know originated in ancient times, popularized in the Western Han Dynasty, and reached its heyday in the Song Dynasty. After a long historical development, Tanabata was given the beautiful love legends of "Cowherd Weaver", which became a festival symbolizing love in many people's minds.

Legend has it that the weaver girl is the daughter of the Jade Emperor. The jade emperor was furious forced to leave the room and returned to the Tiangong, only allowing her to meet with cowherd and her children once on the seventh day of July of the lunar calendar every year. On the night of the Qixi Festival, all the magpies on the ground flew to the galaxy of the sky and set up the "Qiaoqiao", so that the cowherd and weaver girl stepped on the bridge to reunite. It is said that when the night is quiet, listening to the grape rack, you can hear the conversation of the cowherd and weaver.

The connotation of the traditional Tanabata Festival is not simply related to love, but a festival that belongs to girls.

The real name of the Qixi Festival is "Qiqiao Festival". Begging is not only begging for the woman's cleverness, but also to pray for a happy life and ingenuity, which is equivalent to a large -scale blessing festival in a woman!

In fact, as early as the "Book of Songs · Dadong", the star name of the glory and weaver girl was recorded: "Weitian has Han, and the prison also has light. Different weaver women, all day of the seven Xiang. He is one of the stars that have been recognized by the Chinese people who are the earliest Chinese and books in the classics.

Han refers to Galaxy. The weaver is the constellation name of Samsung, which is a triangle, located on the side of the galaxy; the cow is a constellation name of three stars, also known as the river drum star, commonly known as cowherd star, on the side of the Galaxy.

On the night of the Qixi Festival, if you look up to look at the splendid star river, the three brightest stars in the sky are connected, which is often called the "summer triangle", which is composed of Alpha Star with three different constellations. Among these three stars, the brightest is the weaver girl, also known as the weaver actress, which is the brightest star of the Tianqin seat; the darkest than it is the drum two, also known as the cowherd star, the cattle star, etc., the most the alert is the brightest of the Tenka Aka. The star is located at the southern end of the Grand Triangle.

Qixi Festival · What to play

Picture source: CCTV News

Tanabata · What to eat

01

Ingenuity

That is the Tanabata fruit, begging fruit, also known as ingenuity or tongue. It is a traditional pastry in Shanghai, which is a fresh food for Tanabata.

02

Five sons

Five sons, namely longan, red dates, hazelnuts, peanuts, melon seeds. It is a pair of paids of "worshiping women" in Qixi Festival.

03

Crispy

One of the traditional names, in order to celebrate the seventh lunar bridge of the Cattle Small and the Lunar Lunar Calendar.

04

Clever

Shandong customs: Seven good girls collected grain food and vegetables to make dumplings, and a copper coin, one needle and a red dates are included in three dumplings. Essence

05

Cloud

The clouds of the Qixi Festival in Linyi, Shandong. This surface is made of dew, and it can get clever.

06

Jiang Rice Strip

Old Nanjing people have a unique custom: eating Jiangmi bars.

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