What is the difference between Qixi Festival and Valentine's Day? Is Qixi Festival Valentine's Day?
Qixi Festival is one of China's traditional festivals, but not everyone knows about it. So, let's take a look at what is the difference between Qixi Festival and Valentine's Day. Is Qixi Festival Valentine's Day? Shuimo.com has prepared the lunar calendar content for the seventh month of 2021. You can click on Shuimo.com’s special topic on the seventh month of 2021 to learn more.What is the difference between Qixi Festival and Valentine's Day? Is Qixi Festival Valentine's Day?Although Qixi Festival is Valentine's Day, there is still a slight difference between them.From the very beginning, Qixi Festival was not actually Valentine's Day. The Chinese Valentine's Day is on the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar every year. The day is also known as the Qiqiao Festival, the Seven-Qiqiao Festival, the Daughter's Day, etc. It is a traditional Chinese festival which originated from people's worship of natural celestial phenomena in ancient times. The myth of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl evolved during the Eastern Han Dynasty. It is believed that this is a couple who had to be separated because of their different statuses, and on this day they were able to meet each other with the help of all the magpies in the world. It is full of romantic mythological colors. So, although Qixi Festival was not Valentine's Day at the beginning, with the development of the times, Qixi Festival is also known as China's Valentine's Day. Why is Qixi Festival calculated according to the lunar calendar?"Qixi Festival" also originated from the ancient people's worship of time. "Qi" is homophonic with "qi", and both the month and the day are "qi", giving people a sense of time. The ancient Chinese called the sun, moon and the five major planets, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Venus and Saturn, together the "Seven Luminaries".The number seven represents a period of time in folk culture, and "seven sevens" is often used as the final number when calculating time. In old Beijing, when performing rituals for the deceased, people usually consider the ceremonies to be complete after the 49th day. The current "week" is calculated using the "Nanayo" and is still retained in Japanese. “Qi” is homophonic with “ji”, and “Qiqi” means double luck, so it is an auspicious day. In Taiwan, July is known as the month of "happiness and fortune". Because the shape of the word "喜" in cursive script resembles the continuous writing of "七十七", seventy-seven years old is also called "喜寿". |
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