Can we see the Altair and the Vega stars on Chinese Valentine’s Day? What is the specific legend of the Qixi Festival?
The Qixi Festival was originally the Qiqiao Festival, which was a festival when women in ancient times begged the Weaver Girl for cleverness. Do you want to know more about the Qixi Festival? Shuimo.com has carefully compiled detailed information about the seventh month of the lunar calendar in 2021. Come to Shuimo.com’s special topic on the seventh month of the lunar calendar in 2021 to learn about the auspiciousness and inauspiciousness of the day!Can we see the Altair and the Vega stars on Chinese Valentine’s Day?The seventh sister can see Altair and Vega, and this is the best time to view these two stars.The most widely circulated story of the Chinese Valentine's Day is the love story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl. The reason why such a story has spread is because the Chinese Valentine's Day is the time when the Altair and the Weaver Girl shine the brightest. On the day of Chinese Valentine's Day, around 9 p.m., Vega, with a brightness of 0 magnitude, first appears near the zenith, and then Altair, with a brightness of 1 magnitude, rises to its south. Between the two stars there is a galaxy running across the north and south, which is the Milky Way that separates the two people in the story. Among them, Cowherd is in the east of the river and Weaver Girl is in the west of the river. There are four darker stars below Vega, forming a small parallelogram. They are the shuttles that the Weaver girl weaves for the beautiful clouds and rainbows in mythology. Altair is a bright yellowish star. The two small stars on its two sides are called shoulder pole stars. According to legend, they represent the Altair carrying a pair of children on his back. In ancient times, young girls would worship the Weaver Girl on the Chinese Valentine's Day, praying that she would give them a pair of skillful hands and bless their love to be happy and fulfilling. In addition, some places also have the custom of worshiping the Cowherd and the Yellow Ox, which are all related to the ancient astrology worship. What is the specific legend of the Qixi Festival?The most famous legend of the Qixi Festival is the love story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl:Legend has it that Niulang lived with his elder brother, but after his parents died, his elder sister-in-law began to make things difficult for him. In the end, she forced Niulang and his elder brother to split up the family property, leaving him only an old cow. From then on, Niulang and the old cow depended on each other for survival. Although life was hard, he never gave up hope. Who knew that the old cow of Cowherd was actually a fairy cow banished to the mortal world by the Emperor of Heaven. In order to repay Cowherd for taking care of it, it secretly told Cowherd the place where the seven fairies came down to the mortal world to bathe, and that the fairies could not go back to heaven if they lost their fairy clothes. After listening to the old cow, Niulang came to the lake where the seven fairies were bathing. He fell in love with a beautiful little fairy at first sight and secretly hid her clothes. Who knew that this little fairy was the Emperor of Heaven's youngest daughter, the Weaver Girl. Without her clothes, the Weaver Girl had to stay in the mortal world, but when she saw that the Cowherd was honest and they got along well, she agreed to let the Cowherd stay and became his wife. The two of them lived a life in the mortal world, with the man farming and the woman weaving. Their relationship grew better and better, their lives became better and better, and they had a son and a daughter. But the good days did not last too long. As the saying goes, one day in heaven is one year on earth. When the Weaver Girl's sisters returned to heaven, the Queen Mother also discovered the affair between the Weaver Girl and the Cowherd, so the Queen Mother captured the Weaver Girl and brought her back to heaven. Unable to bear the separation from his wife, the Cowherd tried desperately to chase after the cow, but was unable to catch up with the heavenly soldiers. So the old cow broke off one of its horns and turned it into a boat for the Cowherd to take to chase after her. Unexpectedly, the Queen Mother immediately drew a Milky Way to separate the two. The Cowherd still did not give up, and tried every way to cross the river to meet the Weaver Girl. His spirit moved the Emperor of Heaven, so he ordered magpies to build a bridge so that the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl could meet each other during the Chinese Valentine's Day every year. In order to let the Cowherd take his son and daughter to find the Weaver Girl, the old cow risked her life to let the Cowherd peel off its own skin and bones, make them into a shoulder pole, and put the children on it. In this way, the Cowherd could take his children to meet the Weaver Girl, which also led to a beautiful story. Do you want to know your own Bazi? Want to figure out where your golden marriage is? Click on the [Premium Calculation] below to calculate your horoscope and fortune! |
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