In China, the night of the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, the weather is warm, grass and trees, which is commonly known as the Tanabata Festival, also known as the "Beggar's Day" or "Daughter's Day", which is the most romantic of the traditional Chinese festivals in the festival, is also the most important day for girls in the past. This is one of the most romantic of the traditional Chinese festivals, and also the most important day for the girls in the past.
On a clear summer and fall night, the stars in the sky shine brightly, and a white Milky Way runs across the north and south, and the east and west banks of the river are each covered with a shining star, looking across the river, facing each other from afar, that is, Altair and Vega.
Sitting on the eve of Tanabata to see the Altair and Vega stars, is a folk custom, according to legend, in this night every year, is the heavenly Weaving Maiden and the Cowherd in the magpie bridge meeting time. The Weaving Maiden is a beautiful, clever, dexterous nymphs, the mortal women will be begging for her wisdom and skill on this night, but also to her to ask for the gift of marriage, so the seventh day of the seventh month is also known as the Begging for coincidence festival.
People say that on the night of the seventh day of the seventh month, they can look up and see the Milky Way meeting of the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden, or they can overhear the pulsating words of love between the two men meeting in the sky under the shelf of melons and fruits.
Girls in this night full of romance, the sky's bright moon, seasonal fruits and melons, towards the sky to worship, begging the goddess in the sky to give them a clever mind and dexterous hands, so that their knitting skills skillful women, but also begging for love and marriage in the marriage of the coincidental match. In the past, marriage was a lifelong event for women to decide whether they would be happy or not, so countless loving men and women in the world would pray for a happy marriage to the starry sky on this night, when the night is quiet and people are deep in the night.
The seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, Tanabata, the so-called Chinese Valentine's Day. It is also known as Beggar's Day.
Legendary day of the meeting of the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden.
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