With the passage of history, a number of traditional folk festivals have been derived from Chinese mainland. Such as the well-known Qingming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Double Ninth Festival, etc. Coming to the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, we are ushering in another traditional folk festival - Qixi Festival.
The Qixi Festival has been packaged and turned into "China's Valentine's Day", which is loved by young people and businesses.
The Qixi Festival is approaching, but the old people say:This year is "Tanabata cattle and sheep, don't do three things". Compared with other festivals, people in different regions have different customs to commemorate this day, and Qixi Festival is no exception. But there are three things that can't be done on Tanabata, which are the three things?
The first is the cult of the stars. The universe had a special attraction for ancient peoples, and many people focused their research on the stars and astronomy. Thanks to the efforts of the people, the ancient astrological culture has a long history and a perfect system.
The ancients corresponded the heavenly regions with the earthly realms, and the proper names were divided into stars and fields. The two cooperate with each other to carry out astronomical astronomical measurements.
Among the equinoxes are the Cowherd and Vega, two stars separated by the Milky Way but shining brightly.
According to legend, every year on the seventh day of July, the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl go on a date on the Magpie Bridge in the sky. Later, people expanded and played this story, giving the Cowherd and Weaver Girl a beautiful love story between the two.
The second is the cult of numbers. Qixi is the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, and the "sevenfold" is called an auspicious day. The ancients worshipped numbers, and almost every number was given meaning. Seven and auspicious are homophonic, double seven is happy and happy, it is an auspicious good day. The number seven is a stage of time in the folk, ending with seven seven, for example, there are seven days in a week.
The Qixi Festival originated from ancient times and was popularized in the Western Han Dynasty. The Qixi Festival is known as the Qiqiao Festival and the Daughter's Day, which was established to commemorate the birth of the Seventh Sister.
According to folklore, the Seventh Sister is a weaving expert in the sky, and the ancient women made a "begging skill" to the Seventh Sister to pray for spiritual dexterity. Harmonious marriage and happy family represent people's purest desires.
The Qixi Festival is an exclusive festival for women in Chinese history, and marriageable women pray to the Seventh Sister in exchange for a suitable husband on this special holiday. After all, marriage is a happy event for a woman's life. Therefore, many women will gather in groups to pray for a happy marriage in front of the gods in the sky.
It has unique folk customs. People in Jiangsu have the custom of the Spring Bridge Meeting; Dew is popular in Zhejiang, and they believe that smearing fresh dew on their faces on this day will make people look good; Worship of the Seventh Sister is prevalent in Guangdong; The women's competition is a "saiqiao" competition, and the loser is given a generous gift to the winner.
In addition, there are countless special customs in various regions on the day of the Qixi Festival, which show people's importance and love for the Qixi Festival. Over time, this traditional festival has been endowed with the love story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, making it a festival representing love and giving rise to the meaning of "Chinese Valentine's Day".
This year's Qixi Festival coincides with cattle and sheep, and this year is in the ugly day of the last month. That's why people call it a cow and a sheep.
Cattle and sheep are facing each other and fighting each other at the same time, and the two are of the same position, and it is easy for them to fight. Among the five elements, ugliness contains water and gold, and at the end contains fire and wood.
Water presses fire, gold presses wood. Therefore, the relationship between cattle and sheep is secretly fighting with each other and competing with each other.
In other words, there will be too many problems when cattle and sheep meet, and the folk saying "cattle and sheep meet in tears" perfectly expresses this meaning. Qixi Festival happens to coincide with cattle and sheep, and the old people say that there are three things that cannot be done during this festival.
The first thing is not to marry. The first reason is that according to folklore, the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl will meet at Queqiao on the seventh day of July every year, although their love story is very touching, but the love story that can only be seen once a year is more helpless and sad, and the ending is even more sad. Therefore, the old people are very taboo to get married on the seventh day of the seventh month, thinking that such a love does not end well.
Secondly, we often say that good things come in pairs. It is most auspicious to choose an even-numbered day for marriage, and the seventh day of the seventh month is a single day, and getting married on this day means bad luck. July is traditionally Halloween, not an auspicious day for marriage. Therefore, the day of Qixi Festival can celebrate love, but it is not suitable for marriage.
The second thing is not to quarrel. After the evolution of time, the Qixi Festival has become a romantic Valentine's Day. Men and women who are secretly emotional will express their love on this day.
Usually on the day of Qixi Festival, merchants will seize the false head to carry out commercial activities to catch people's attention and take the opportunity to sell goods. Women are sensual creatures, and this day longs to receive gifts and feel the importance that men value them.
The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl met once a year to explain their longing. We ordinary people should also use this day to repair the relationship between husband and wife, and do not quarrel on this day because of trivial things, which will affect the feelings of both parties at the same time, and will destroy the mood of both parties for the holiday, and the gains outweigh the losses. Therefore, on the day of Tanabata, try not to quarrel and spend the festival in harmony.
The third thing is that it is not suitable for male and female mating. When the Qixi Festival was in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Taoism determined the seventh day of the seventh month of the seventh month as the three meetings and the moral day. During the three sessions, the Taoists would gather together, and the Taoists would receive the precepts preached by the Taoists. The wax day in the Taoist scriptures is suitable for sacrifices, chanting and repentance, and has strong religious significance.
Lap Ri is a day for Taoism to pay tribute to its ancestors, after which the tradition of Lap Day in Taoism was inherited by later generations. Therefore, this day is not suitable for male and female copulation. If a man and a woman mate will violate the rules of the Tao, they will be stripped of their official positions and salaries, and at the same time, it will have an adverse impact on their own longevity, which will affect their life span the most, causing irreversible damage.
In "Yang Gongji", the fifteenth day is the middle yuan, and the second day is the second day to enter the room.
In fact, in addition to these three things, the Qixi Festival is not suitable for doing evil things and eating birds and animals. At the same time, there are many things to do, the first is the Qixi Festival, which is suitable for drying books and furs; the second is suitable for making honey** to whiten and blacken; The third is to wash your hair with herbal water. These taboos and matters are combined to form a romantic traditional festival.
Today, the Qixi Festival has evolved into a romantic traditional festival and a favorite festival for businessmen, where couples and couples express their love for each other and explain the beauty of love.
This year's Qixi Festival is coming soon, I hope everyone can harvest beautiful love on this day, and at the same time, people do not forget to inherit and carry forward this unique traditional Chinese culture, and do not do those taboo things, so that it is the perfect Qixi Festival.