What is the meaning of the Qixi Festival? The story of the Qixi Festival

On the occasion of Chinese Valentine's Day, I will give you a lush love tree, which is full of pistachios, lucky plums, rich dates, warm plums, happy peaches, happy pears, prosperous chrysanthemums, happy candies, and auspicious melons! This romantic Chinese Valentine's Day is a festival that symbolizes love. Girls beg the fairies in the sky to give them smart minds and dexterous hands, and also beg for a good match in love and marriage.

Contents of this article

1. The meaning of Qixi Festival

2. The story of the Chinese Valentine's Day

3. Creative blessings for Chinese Valentine's Day

The meaning of Qixi Festival

The Qixi Festival originated in ancient times, became popular in the Western Han Dynasty, and reached its peak in the Song Dynasty. It is also known as the Qiqiao Festival, Qiqiao Festival, Double Seven, and Seventh Sisters' Birthday. It is a comprehensive festival based on the folk legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, with love as the theme and women as the main body.

The "Cowherd and the Weaver Girl" of the Chinese Valentine's Day comes from people's worship of natural celestial phenomena. In ancient times, people corresponded astronomical star regions with geographical regions. This correspondence was called "fenxing" in astronomy and "fenye" ​​in geography. According to legend, the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl would meet on the Magpie Bridge in the sky on the seventh day of July every year, and later it became a festival symbolizing love. Girls begged the fairies in the sky to give them intelligent minds and dexterous hands, and also begged for a good match in love and marriage.

The story of the Qixi Festival

In Tang and Song Dynasty poems, women begging for skills was mentioned repeatedly. Wang Jian of the Tang Dynasty wrote in a poem, "The stars are glittering, and the palace maids are busy begging for skills on the Qixi Festival." According to "The Remaining Stories of Kaiyuan and Tianbao", Emperor Taizong of Tang and his concubines held banquets in the Qing Palace on Qixi Festival, and the palace maids begged for skills on their own. This custom has also been popular among the people and has been passed down from generation to generation.

During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, the Qiqiao Festival on the Qixi Festival was quite grand. There was even a market in the capital city that specialized in selling Qiqiao items, which was called the Qiqiao Market. The "Drunkard Talks" compiled by Luo Ye and Jin Yingzhi of the Song Dynasty said: "On the Qixi Festival, Qiqiao items were bought and sold in front of Panlou. From the first day of July, the carriages and horses were blocked. Three days before the Qixi Festival, the carriages and horses could not pass. They were blocked one after another and could not get out. They dispersed at night." Here, from the grand occasion of buying Qiqiao items in the Qiqiao Market, we can infer the lively scene of the Qiqiao Festival on the Qixi Festival at that time. People started to buy Qiqiao items on the first day of July. The Qiqiao Market was crowded with people. When it was close to the Qixi Festival, the Qiqiao Market was simply a sea of ​​people. The carriages and horses were difficult to pass. Looking at its customs, it seemed to be no less than the grandest festival, the Spring Festival. This shows that the Qiqiao Festival was one of the most favorite festivals of the ancients.

Later, the love story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl was incorporated into the Qiqiao Festival, and the girls believed it to be true. So every seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, when the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl meet on the Magpie Bridge, the girls would come under the moon and flowers, look up at the starry sky, looking for the Altair and the Weaver Girl on both sides of the Milky Way, hoping to see their annual meeting, begging God to let them be as dexterous as the Weaver Girl, and praying that they could have a happy and satisfying marriage. Over time, the Qixi Festival was formed.

Creative blessings for Chinese Valentine's Day

1. It’s Chinese Valentine’s Day, and I’m sending you a seven-color flower: red is auspicious, blue is good luck, green is vitality, yellow is luck, orange is sweet, pink is joy, and purple is happiness. May you have sweet love and a colorful life!

2. The Milky Way bridges the two of them, and the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl are in love. The wedding day is like a dream, and the love is lingering. We are destined to be together in this life, and enjoy the beautiful scenery of the Chinese Valentine's Day. The Chinese Valentine's Day is here, and my heart will love you forever.

3. Happy Chinese Valentine's Day! I'm sorry to bring you a lonely Chinese Valentine's Day, because I haven't found someone who can make you happy, but he will appear by your side soon, believe me!

4. On the occasion of Chinese Valentine's Day, I give you a lush love tree, which is full of pistachios, lucky plums, rich dates, warm plums, happy peaches, happy pears, prosperous chrysanthemums, happy candies, and auspicious melons! Happy Chinese Valentine's Day!

5. Before I met you, the world was a wasteland. After I met you, the world is a paradise. The many years that have passed are like a wisp of smoke to me. The infinite life in the future will be infinitely happy because of you. Happy Chinese Valentine's Day!

6. We have built a magpie bridge with true love, walked into each other's hearts, spread love all over the Milky Way, and made love brilliant and dazzling. On the Chinese Valentine's Day, I wish to go to the Milky Way of love with you, hold hands on the magpie bridge, and tie a beautiful marriage!

7. I have a little concern, but I can't express it with my eyes. After tossing and turning, I decided that I only wish for peace in the world. But I couldn't sleep at night, and I miss you so much. Finally, I meet the Chinese Valentine's Day. I send blessings to all directions and reveal my true feelings to you, hoping that we will become a perfect couple!

8. People who know how to forget gain freedom, people who know how to let go gain ease, people who know how to give gain true love, people who know how to appreciate gain happiness, and people who know how to care gain friends! Valentine's Day is here, remember to be happy, baby!

9. Good luck comes from heaven, I am beaming with joy, I am happy, I am smiling, I am happy, I am overjoyed, I am happy. I wish lovers to get married, send countless blessings, and smile again: Happy Chinese Valentine's Day!

10. Today is Chinese Valentine's Day. Don't forget to send Valentine's Day greetings to your long-time crush. No matter whether we will be together in the future or not, it is enough that our hearts are together today. Happy Valentine's Day!