Day Chinese Valentine’s Day is the seventh day of the seventh month of the Chinese calendar, August 4 this year falls. Legend has it that the seventh daughter of Emperor of Heaven, a weaving girl, fell in love and married a cowherd. They were so in love that they forget everything in his life and could not complete their farming and weaving, which angered the Jade Emperor. He has banned both sides of the river of money (the Milky Way), and only allows them to meet once a year on the night of the seventh day of the seventh month.
This legend has been
what happened for nearly two millennia. The Chinese believe that the star Vega is the Milky Way, Zhi Nu, and Altair is on the west side of the Milky Way and Niu Lang waits his wife.
The seventh day of the seventh lunar month is dedicated to celebrating the Chinese lunar calendar in love. traditions of Valentine’s Day Chinese, rich and this special day is celebrated in different ways, according to the Chinese province.
Some of the many traditions of Chinese girls prepare fruits, melons and incense as offerings to find Zhi Nu, the spinner, please acquire high skills in sewing, and the hope of satisfactory husbands.
needles to girls
on water. If the needle does not sink, it is a sign of maturity of the girl and intelligence, and she is ready and the right to find a husband.
people in certain provinces in China believe that decorate the horns of cattle with flowers, he saved them from disaster. Another tradition is that women wash their hair to make it fresh and shiny.
Chinese Valentine’s Day
go, the young lovers in the temple of Matchmaker and pray for their love and happiness, and their eventual marriage in China.
In the evening, people sit outside watching the stars. That night, Vega and Altair are closer together than at any other time of year. Chinese grandmothers say that if you stand under a grapevine, you can probably hear what Zhi Nu and Niu Lang are saying to each other.
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