Tanabata——We Are Born for Love.

August 7th, 2019,today is a special and romantic day - Valentine's Day in China, called "Tanabata." The date of the Tanabata Festival is based on the lunar calendar, so the date on the Gregorian calendar is different each year.

The Qixi Festival was derived from the worship of stars, and it was the birth of the Seven Sisters in the traditional sense. The festival was held on July 7th for the worship of the Seven Sisters, hence the name Tanabata. It is the traditional custom of Tanabata to worship seven sisters, pray for blessings, plead for art, sit and watch the maiden vega, pray for marriage, and save the water. Through the development of history, Tanabata has been given the beautiful love story of "The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl", making it a symbolic love festival, which is considered to be the most romantic traditional festival in China. In the contemporary era, the cultural meaning of "Chinese Valentine's Day" has been produced.

On this day, different regions have different ways of celebrating, such as: in rural Zhejiang, the popular custom of using the basin to expose dew. Legend has it that the dew on the Qixi Festival is the tears of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl. If you put it on your eyes and hands, you can make your eyes clear.

In Yixing, Jiangsu, there is a custom of Qixi Xiangqiao. Every year on the seventh night of the seventh month, people come to participate and build the bridge. The so-called Xiangqiao is a bridge with a length of four or five meters and a width of about half a meter made of various thick long-headed incense sticks (paper-wrapped incense), fitted with railings, and tied with five-color thread on the railing. Made of flower decoration. At night, people worship double stars and beg for Fuxiang, and then incinerate the Xiangqiao, symbolizing that the double stars have passed the Xiangqiao and are happy to meet.

Today is a day full of more love. I hope you will harvest happiness when you see the article.

We are born for love.