Today is July 7, 2017, so many people will have such a question: is Qixi the lunar calendar or the solar calendar? What is the origin of Qixi Festival?
The seventh day of the seventh lunar calendar is the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar. (this article is exclusively compiled by WYH, editor of sihai.com. If you need to reprint it, please indicate the source and source. Related article link: http://www.4hw.com.cn/life/jieri.html)
Qixi Festival, also known as Qiqiao Festival, Qiqiao festival or Qijie birthday, originated in China. It is a traditional festival in Chinese areas and some East Asian countries affected by Han culture. It is celebrated on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month. From the legend of Cowherd and weaver girl. Because ancient women wanted to follow the example of weaving women. So every seventh sister's birthday, they will sacrifice to the seventh sister, praying for their own ingenuity and a happy marriage. This is the most romantic festival in Chinese traditional festivals. (this article is exclusively compiled by WYH, editor of sihai.com. If you need to reprint it, please indicate the source and source. Related article link: http://www.4hw.com.cn/life/jieri.html)
The origin of Qixi Festival
Qixi originated from people's worship of nature. From the historical documents, at least three or four thousand years ago, with people's understanding of astronomy and the production of textile technology, there were records of Altair and Vega. People's worship of stars is far more than Altair and Vega. They believe that there are seven stars in the East, West, North and south, which represent the orientation, collectively known as the 28 constellations. Among them, the Big Dipper is the brightest, which can be used to identify the direction at night. The first star of the Big Dipper is Kuixing, also known as Kuishou. Later, with the imperial examination system, the number one scholar in the imperial examination was called "Dakui Tianshi", and the scholars called Qixi "Kuixing Festival", also known as "shaishu Festival", which kept the trace that the earliest Qixi originated from Xingxiu worship.
Chinese Valentine's day also comes from ancient people's worship of time. "Seven" and "period" are homophones, and the month and day are both "seven", giving people a sense of time. The ancient Chinese called the sun and the moon "Qiyao" together with the five planets of water, fire, wood, gold and earth. In the folk, the number of seven is staged in time. When calculating time, the number of seven is often regarded as the end. In the old Beijing, when making a ashram for the dead, the number of seven is often regarded as the end. The present 'week' is calculated by 'seven Obsidian', which is still reserved in Japanese. "Seven" and "auspicious" homophonic, "seven" and double auspicious meaning, is a auspicious day. In Taiwan, July is known as the month of "Happy China brings good luck". Because the shape of the Chinese character "Xi" in cursive script is like "seventy-seven", it is also called "Xi Shou".