The Scenes and Causes of Chinese Valentine's Day

China Valentine's Day, also known as Qiaoqi Festival, Qiaoqi Festival or Chinese Valentine's Day, is a traditional cultural festival popular in China and other countries in the Chinese character cultural circle. It is said that on the night of the seventh or sixth day of the seventh lunar month, women beg for wisdom from Vega in the yard, so it is called "Qiao Qi".

Qixi originated from people's worship of nature and also from the ancient people's worship of time.

In Tang and Song poetry, women's begging for cleverness has also been mentioned many times. In a poem in Tang Dynasty, Wang Jian said, "The stars are adorned with pearls, and Gong E is busy begging for cleverness on Tanabata". According to "The Legacy of Kaiyuan Tianbao", every time Emperor Taizong and his concubines held a banquet in the Qing Palace on Tanabata, the ladies-in-waiting begged with their own ingenuity. This custom is also enduring among the people and passed down from generation to generation.

During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, Qiaqiao was quite grand, and there was also a market in Beijing that monopolized Qiaqiao goods, which was called Qiaqiao City by the world. Song He's series "Talking about Drunken Weng" said: "Tanabata, the property is a gimmick. From July 1 ST, horses and chariots were swallowed, and three days before Chinese Valentine's Day, horses and chariots were not allowed to pass, and they stopped driving again and again until the night. " Here, we can infer the lively scene of the Jocci Festival from the grand occasion of buying Qiao Qi goods from Qiao Qi. People have been putting up flattering articles since the first day of July, and people are coming and going in the flattering market. By the time of Tanabata, the market of Qiqiao was already crowded with people, as if it were the biggest festival-Spring Festival, which showed that Qiqiao Festival was one of the favorite festivals of the ancients.

After the love story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Maid was incorporated into the begging festival, the folk girls believed it. So every seventh day of the seventh lunar month, when the Cowherd and the Weaver Maid met at the "Magpie Bridge", the girls would come to the flowers to look up at the stars and look for the Cowherd and the Weaver Maid on both sides of the Milky Way, hoping to see their annual meeting, praying that God would make them as ingenious as the Weaver Maid and pray for a satisfactory and happy marriage in time.

On May 20th, 2006, China Valentine's Day was listed in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage by the State Council. Now it is considered as "Valentine's Day in China".