When is Qixi Festival in 2021, what month and day is the lunar calendar?
The time of the Qixi Festival in 2021 is August 14, 2021 in the Gregorian calendar, which is the lunar calendar The seventh day of July.Qixi Festival is a traditional Chinese festival with a very long history.It is widely welcomed and valued by people, but it is not a legal holiday.We can celebrate it in our free time.
Introduction to the Qixi Festival
The Qixi Festival, also known as the Qiqiao Festival, the Qijie Festival, the Girls’ Festival, the Qiqiao Festival, the Qiniang Festival, the Qixi Festival, the Bull Bull Woman Day, the Qiaoxi Festival, etc.It is a traditional Chinese folk festival.The Qixi Festival is derived from the worship of the stars and is the birthday of the Seventh Sister in the traditional sense.Because the worship of the "Seventh Sister" is held on the seventh night of the seventh month, it is named "Qixi".Worshiping the Seventh Sister, praying for blessings, begging for skillful arts, sitting and watching Altair Vega, praying for marriage, and storing Qixi water are the traditional customs of Qixi Festival.After historical development, Qixi Festival has been endowed with the beautiful love legend of "The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl", making it a festival that symbolizes love, and is considered to be the most romantic traditional festival in China.cultural meaning.
The origin of the Qixi Festival
The legend of the Cowherd and Weaver Girl on the Qixi Festival originated from people’s worship of natural celestial phenomena.As early as in ancient times, the ancients who pursued order not only planned the sky in an orderly manner, but also The constellations are mapped to the ground area one by one.This correspondence is called "sub-star" in terms of astronomy, and "sub-field" in terms of ground.To put it simply, the ancients corresponded each constellation in the sky to the physical geographic area on the earth one by one.The purpose of the ancient division of stars and fields was mainly to cooperate with astrology theory to conduct astronomical astronomical surveys.
The time of the Qixi Festival in 2021
The Qixi Festival began in ancient times, popularized in the Western Han Dynasty, and flourished in the Song Dynasty.In ancient times, Qixi Festival was an exclusive festival for beautiful girls.Among the many folk customs of Qixi Festival, some gradually disappeared, but a considerable part was continued by people.The Qixi Festival originated in China, and some Asian countries influenced by Chinese culture, such as Japan, the Korean Peninsula, and Vietnam, also have the tradition of celebrating the Qixi Festival.On May 20, 2006, the Qixi Festival was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list by the State Council of the People’s Republic of China.Therefore, the Qixi Festival in 2021 will be on Saturday, August 14, 2021 in the Gregorian calendar.
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