Qixi Festival is one of the traditional Chinese festivals. The seventh day of July in the lunar calendar is the Qixi Festival of the Han people in my country.
Qixi Festival has a custom of "begging for cleverness", and it has been around for a long time. In ancient times, young girls begged for skillful craftsmanship on this day and at the same time begged for a good marriage.
Qixi Festival has many expressions in English, because Qixi Festival is also called "Qiao Qiao Festival", so it can be called "The Begging Festival".
also has Double-Seventh Day, Tanabata /&39;tʌnə&39;ba:tə/ festival, Chinese Valentine&39;s Day, Qixi Festival, and the most commonly used is "Magpie /ˈmæɡpaɪ/ Festival". "Magpie" means "magpie". Legend has it that the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl meet every year at The Magpie-Bridge, which is why the "Magpie Festival" is called. The story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl has become the most widely spread origin legend of the Qixi Festival.
Let’s take a look at Wikipedia’s introduction to the Chinese Qixi Festival:
The Qixi Festival, also known as the Qiqiao Festival, is a Chinese festival that celebrates the annual meeting of the cowherd and weaver girl in Chinese mythology.
It falls on the seventh day of the 7th month on the Chinese calendar. It is sometimes called the Double Seventh Festival, the Chinese Valentine&39;s Day, the Night of Sevens, or the Magpie Festival.
Qixi Keyword
1. The Begging Festival: Qiqiao Festival
"Qiao Qiao" For this "begging", we can say beg or pleat. plead to be endowed with perfect sewing skills.
2. doing needlework: needlework
Qixi has the custom of begging for cleverness. Begging for cleverness is a girl in order to improve her female celebrity craftsmanship. , Don’t read it wrong), which means needlework, in English, it means doing needlework.
3. lunar calendar: The current solar calendar for the lunar calendar
is the solar calendar. lunar means "of the moon", the English name Luna is actually the name of the moon goddess, do you feel very happy to have a girl with this name?
4. cowherd: cowherd, that is, cowherd
. The same word is shepherd, sheep 倌, Both words have a -herd suffix, herd means "herder", but it is usually used as a suffix to form the word "XX shepherd".
5. magpie: magpie
Although in the legend of Tanabata, magpies bring happiness to lovers, the word magpie has a derogatory usage, which is used to describe people who talk a lot:
She chatters like a magpie.
Finished.
The custom of "begging for cleverness"
Qixi Festival, unmarried women usually beg for Vega for cleverness and marriage.
On that night, unmarried girls prayed to the Weaving Maid star for the special gift.
They put a needle on the water, and if the needle does not sink, they can get what they want.
When the star Vega was high up in the sky, girls performed a small test by placing a needle on the water&39;s surface: If the needle did not sink, the girl was considered to be ready to find a husband.
Late girls can pray for any wish to come true.
Once a year, on this day, girls could wish for anything their hearts desired.
Poems about the Qixi Festival
Throughout the ages, there have been many poems about the Qixi Festival, and we choose two representative ones: Qinguan Bridge "Xian" and the Han Dynasty Yuefu poem "Shang Xie", let's enjoy the English translation of Xu Yuanchong's ↓
Magpie Bridge Fairy
When the golden wind and jade dew meet, they win but countless in the world.
tenderness is like water, good times are like dreams, to bear with the magpie bridge and return home.
If the two loves last for a long time, how can they keep going.
Immortals at the Magpie Bridge
Clouds float like works of art,
Stars shoot with grief at heart,
Across the Milky Love Way the Cowherd meets the however the Maid.zzz
When Dew's golden screen, however many embrace zzz
z5,sZzzzAll of the earth, z5 tender love flows like a stream,Their happy date seems but a dream,
How can they bear a separate homeward way?
If love between both sides can last for aye,
Why need they stay together night and day?
