202 1 What's the date of Valentine's Day in China?

China Valentine's Day, also known as Seven Clever Days, Daughter's Day and Seven Sisters Day, is a comprehensive festival with women as the theme and cowherd and weaver girl as the carrier. 202 1 China Valentine's Day is on August 14, which is Saturday, the seventh day of the seventh lunar month.

Valentine's Day in China began in ancient times, spread in the Western Han Dynasty and flourished in the Song Dynasty. Among the numerous folk customs of Tanabata, some have gradually disappeared, but quite a few have been continued by people. Valentine's Day in China originated in China, and some Asian countries influenced by China culture also celebrate Valentine's Day, such as Japan, Korean Peninsula and Viet Nam. The "Cowherd and Weaver Girl" on Tanabata originated from people's worship of natural phenomena.

The Folklore of Valentine's Day in China

1, Xiangqiao Club

In Yixing, Jiangsu, there is the custom of Qixi Xiangqiao Festival. Every year on Tanabata, people will come to participate in and build Xiangqiao. The so-called incense bridge is a bridge with a length of four or five meters and a width of about half a meter made of all kinds of thick and long incense (thread incense wrapped in paper). It is equipped with railings and decorated with flowers made of five-color lines. In the evening, people offered sacrifices to the Double Star for good luck, and then burned Xiangqiao, symbolizing that the Double Star had crossed Xiangqiao and met happily. This fragrant bridge originated from the legendary magpie bridge legend.

Step 2 contact dew

In rural areas of Zhejiang, it is popular to use washbasins to receive dew. Legend has it that the dew in Chinese Valentine's Day is the tears when the cowherd and the weaver girl meet. If you put it in your eyes and hands, it can make people agile.

Refer to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Qixi