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Chinese traditional festivals - Tanabata/ The Qixi Festival

2022-08-04

Tanabata (The Qixi Festival), also known as the Qiqiao Festival, is a Chinese festival that celebrates the annual meeting of the cowherd and weaver girl in Chinese mythology.

Tanabata (The Qixi Festival) falls on the seventh day of the 7th month on the Chinese calendar. It has 2000 years of history in Chinese. It is sometimes called the Double Seventh Festival, the Chinese Valentine's Day, the Night of Sevens, or the Magpie Festival. It is a festival Chinese traditional festivals in the most romantic, is the girl, women's attention and love day. Tanabata customs, originated in the Han Dynasty Chinese, later and the cowboy, weaver girl stories consistency.

In 2021, Tanabata, was included in the first batch of Chinese intangible cultural heritage list. she is not Valentine's day, but should be the festival of love.

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