The origin of Chinese Valentine's Day and the legend of Chinese Valentine's Day

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In my country, on the night of the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, the weather is warm and the grass and trees are fragrant. This is commonly known as the Qixi Festival, which is also called the "Qiqiao Festival" or "Daughter's Day". Because it is the day when the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl meet once a year, it is also called the Chinese Valentine's Day. This is the most romantic festival among Chinese traditional festivals, and it was also the day that girls paid the most attention to in the past.

　　The date of 2006 Chinese Valentine's Day is Monday, July 31, 2006, the seventh day of the seventh month in the lunar calendar.

　　On clear summer and autumn nights, the sky is full of shining stars, and a white Milky Way stretches across the north and south. On the east and west banks of the Milky Way, there is a shining star on each side, facing each other across the river. They are Altair and Vega.

　　Sitting and watching Altair and Vega on the Qixi Festival is a folk custom. It is said that on this night every year, the Weaver Girl and the Cowherd meet on the Magpie Bridge. The Weaver Girl is a beautiful, intelligent and skillful fairy. On this night, women on earth beg her for wisdom and skills, and also ask her for a happy marriage, so the seventh day of the seventh month is also called the Qiqiao Festival.

　　People say that on the night of the Chinese Valentine's Day, if you look up, you can see the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl meeting in the Milky Way, or you can eavesdrop under the fruit racks on their sweet love words as they meet in the sky.

　　On this romantic night, girls put seasonal fruits and vegetables under the bright moon and prayed to the sky, begging the goddess to give them smart minds and dexterous hands, so that they can master knitting and sewing skills, and pray for a good match in love and marriage. In the past, marriage was a lifelong event for women that determined their happiness. Therefore, countless men and women in love would pray for a happy marriage under the stars on this night when the night was quiet and people were asleep.

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The legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl The Qixi Festival has always been connected with the legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl. This 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. It is said that a long time ago, there was a smart and honest young man in Niujiazhuang, west of Nanyang City. His parents died early, so he 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 and gave him nine cows, but asked 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 cattle into the mountains alone. On the mountain with deep grass and dense forests, he sat under a tree and was sad. He didn't know when he could drive the ten cows home. At this time, an old man with white hair and beard appeared in front of him and asked him why he was sad. When he learned about his experience, he smiled and said to him: "Don't be sad. There is an old cow that fell ill in Funiu Mountain. You go and feed it well. When the old cow recovers, you can drive it home. The cowherd went over mountains and ridges, walked a long way, and finally found the sick old cow. He saw that the old cow was very sick, so he went to get a bundle 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 a gray cow immortal in the sky, but was demoted from the sky because it violated the rules of heaven, broke its leg and could not move. Its injury needed to be washed with dew from hundreds of flowers for a month to heal. The cowherd was not afraid of hard work and took care of the old cow carefully for a month. During the day, he picked flowers and collected dew to heal the old cow, and at night he slept beside the old cow. When the old cow recovered, the cowherd happily drove the ten cows back home. After returning home, his sister-in-law was still not kind to him. She tried to harm him several times, but the old cow tried to save him. Finally, the sister-in-law was angry and drove the cowherd out of the house. The cowherd only wanted the old cow to follow him. One day, the Weaver Girl in the sky came down to earth with the fairies 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 wife of the Cowherd. The Weaver Girl also distributed the silkworms she brought from heaven to everyone, and taught everyone how to raise silkworms, reel silk, and weave shiny and bright silk. After the Cowherd and the 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 didn't last long. The Emperor of Heaven soon found out 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. The cowherd had no way to go to heaven, but the old cow told him that after the cowherd died, he could make shoes out of its hide and wear them to go to heaven. The cowherd did as the old cow said, put on the shoes made of cowhide, took his children with him, and rode the clouds to the sky to chase the Weaver Girl. When they were about to catch up, the Queen Mother took off her golden hairpin and waved it, and a turbulent river appeared. The cowherd and the Weaver Girl were separated on both sides and could only cry and shed tears. Their loyal love moved the magpies, and thousands 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 had no choice but to allow the two to meet on the magpie bridge on July 7 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.

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Although there was heavy rain on the first Chinese Valentine's Day this year , the number of newlyweds at the marriage registration offices in several districts was five or six times more than usual. Some newlyweds lined up at two in the morning

. Yesterday was China's Valentine's Day, "Chinese Valentine's Day". Although there was heavy to torrential rain in the morning, many newlyweds still registered for marriage. The marriage registration office of the Civil Affairs Bureau of Haidian District received 200 couples in one day, Xicheng District received more than 100 couples, and Dongcheng District received about 200 couples, which are five or six times more than usual.