What other festivals are there besides Valentine's Day in 2020? What are the legends?
There are many festivals to celebrate love, but only the Chinese Valentine's Day is a mixture of longing, romance and the anticipation of seeing each other once a year, which is very much like the sweet and slightly bitter love in the world. So, what other festivals are there besides Valentine's Day in 2020? What are the legends? The seventh month of the lunar calendar is the beginning of the second half of the year. How auspicious or inauspicious will the days of the seventh month of the lunar calendar be in 2020? Shui Mo Xiansheng website has prepared relevant articles for you, come and have a look.What other festivals are there besides Valentine's Day in 2020?1. According to folklore, July 7 is Kuixing’s birthday.In ancient times, scholars who wanted to achieve fame and fortune particularly revered Kuixing, so they would worship him on the Qixi Festival and pray for him to bless them with good luck in the exams. 2. Qixi Festival is China's Valentine's Day and also a festival that encourages blind dates between men and women. Folklorists have put forward their own views: Qixi Festival is first and foremost a festival for single women. Zhao Kuifu, a professor at the Institute of Ancient Books of Northwest Normal University, believes that in ancient China, the Chinese Valentine's Day should be the happiest day for single women. Even during the Spring Festival, many women could not wear new clothes to visit relatives and friends, and their families usually asked men to visit relatives and friends. Only on the Chinese Valentine's Day could single women in ancient times wear their best clothes and go out to meet and play with their sisters. "The Chinese Valentine's Day was first celebrated in the palace of the Western Han Dynasty and later spread to the people." Zhao Kuifu said that in the palace of the Western Han Dynasty, it was impossible for palace maids to be encouraged to fall in love at will, so the earliest meaning of the Chinese Valentine's Day was mainly to pray for dexterity and commend women's cleverness. On this day, women would show off their unique skills such as embroidery and needlework. Zhao Kuifu told reporters that after the Qixi Festival spread among the people, it was added with wishes such as love and a happy family, and even the connotation of promoting reading and writing. For example, Liu Yiqing's "A New Account of Tales of the World" mentioned a passage about everyone drying their books on July 7th. Although the customs of the Chinese Valentine's Day vary from place to place, what has remained unchanged from ancient times to the present is that it is mainly about "begging for women's cleverness and wisdom." From this perspective, Zhao Kuifu believes that the Chinese Valentine's Day is very different from the Western Valentine's Day. "In ancient China, women were absolutely not allowed to have ambiguous relationships with lovers other than their husbands. This was part of Confucianism and could never be discussed openly." Zhao Kuifu said, therefore there is a saying that the Chinese Valentine's Day should only be a festival for unmarried women, hoping that all lovers in the world will eventually get married. Chu Dongai, associate professor at the School of Journalism and Communication of South China University of Technology and a doctor of folklore, also believes that the more accurate term for the Chinese Valentine's Day should be "the festival for unmarried women." In modern times, there is indeed a group of "single women" in the Pearl River Delta region, and they are indeed the main body of the Qiqiao Festival. However, there are two types of single women. One type is those who are dissatisfied with the arranged marriage after marriage and return to their parents' home and never live with their husband's family for the rest of their life. The other type is the so-called "self-combed girls". These women are usually fifteen or sixteen years old and are of marriageable age, but are dissatisfied with the feudal arranged marriages. They declare to the public that they will never marry and move into the "grandmother's house" from then on. These women are a unique group in the Pearl River Delta in modern times. They rebel against feudal marriage and pursue independent marriage through their own actions. Tanabata legend storyThe Chinese Valentine's Day has always been connected with the legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, which is a very beautiful love story that has been passed down through the ages and has become one of the four major folk love legends in my country.According to legend, a long time ago, there was a smart man living in Niujiazhuang, west of Nanyang City. The honest young man lost his parents early and had to live with his brother and sister-in-law. His sister-in-law, Ma, was cruel and often abused him and forced him to do a lot of work. One autumn, his sister-in-law forced him to herd cattle. She gave him nine cows, but told him to wait until he had ten cows before he could go home. The cowherd had no choice but to drive the cattle out of the village. The cowherd drove the cows into the mountains alone. On the mountain with deep grass and dense forests, he sat under a tree and felt sad. He didn't know when he could drive the ten cows back home. At this time, an old man with white hair and beard appeared in front of him and asked him why he was sad. After learning about his experience, he smiled and said to him: "Don't be sad. There is an old sick cow in Funiu Mountain. You go and feed it well. When the old cow recovers, you can drive it back home. The cowherd climbed over mountains and walked a long way before he finally found the sick old cow. Seeing that the old cow was very ill, he fetched bundles of grass for the old cow and fed it for three days. When the old cow was full, it raised its head and told him that it was originally the gray cow immortal in the sky, but was demoted from heaven for violating the rules of heaven, broke its leg, and could not move. It takes a month to wash my wound with dew from hundreds of flowers before it can heal. The cowherd was not afraid of the hard work and took good care of the old cow for a month. During the day, he picked flowers and collected dew to treat the old cow's wounds, and at night he snuggled up to the old cow and slept. After the old cow recovered, the cowherd happily drove the ten cows back home. After returning home, his sister-in-law was still mean to him and tried to harm him several times, but the old cow managed to save her every time. Finally, his sister-in-law became angry and drove Cowherd out of the house. Cowherd only wanted the old cow to stay with him. One day, the Weaver Girl from the sky and other fairies came down to earth to play and bathe in the river. With the help of the old cow, the Cowherd met the Weaver Girl, and they fell in love with each other. Later, the Weaver Girl secretly came down to earth and became the Cowherd's wife. The Weaver Girl also distributed the silkworms she brought from heaven to everyone and taught everyone how to raise silkworms, reel in silk, and weave shiny and bright silk. After Cowherd and Weaver Girl got married, the man farmed and the woman wove, and they were deeply in love. They had two children, a boy and a girl, and the family lived a happy life. But the good times did not last long. The Emperor of Heaven soon learned about this, and the Queen Mother came down to earth in person and forcibly took the Weaver Girl back to heaven, and the loving couple was separated. There was no way for the cowherd to go to heaven, but the old cow told him that after it died, he could make shoes with its skin and wear them to go to heaven. The cowherd did as the old cow said. He put on cowhide shoes, took his children, and flew up to the sky on a cloud to chase the Weaver Girl. Just when they were about to catch up, the Queen Mother of the West pulled out the golden hairpin on her head and waved it. A turbulent river appeared in the sky. The cowherd and the Weaver Girl were separated on both sides of the river and could only cry to each other. Their loyal love moved magpies, and millions of magpies flew over and built a magpie bridge for the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl to meet on the magpie bridge. The Queen Mother was helpless and had to allow the two to meet on the magpie bridge on July 7th every year. Later, every year on the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, the day when the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl meet on the Magpie Bridge, the girls would come out under the moon and 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 make them as dexterous as the Weaver Girl, and praying for a happy and satisfying marriage. This is how the Chinese Valentine's Day was formed. It’s another Chinese Valentine’s Day. Year after year, we are always moved by the romance and cherish it because of the touch. In this July, let us join hands in this world and spend a wonderful time together. |
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