What day is Qixi Festival in 2021 and what are the traditional festival customs?
The time of Qixi Festival in 2021 is on August 14, 2021, Saturday, the seventh day of the seventh lunar month.This day is not a legal holiday, so we have to arrange our own holiday time.In addition, there are some traditional folk customs, such as fighting tricks, threading needles, drying clothes, and offering sacrifices.
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 started 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.
The time of the Qixi Festival in 2021
"The seventh day of the seventh month" is related to the ancient people’s worship of numbers and time.In ancient times, the folks listed the "seven days" of the first lunar month, the second lunar month, the third lunar month, the fifth lunar month, the sixth lunar month, the seventh lunar month, and the ninth lunar month as auspicious days."Chongsun" in ancient China was considered to be a day of "sympathy between heaven and earth" and "connection between heaven and man".In these "heavy days", it is not difficult to see that the ancients worshiped numbers, such as nine and five being important numbers, and the supreme being nine and five being a symbol of status.And "one" means the beginning of all things, and is a symbol of achievement, status and honor.Therefore, the date of the Qixi Festival in 2021 is the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, which is Saturday, August 14, 2021 in the Gregorian calendar.
Traditional folk activities on the Qixi Festival
The folk activities on the Qixi Festival include needle threading, making Khotan music, drying scriptures and clothes, drinking porridge, offering sacrifices to spider silk, begging for tricks, and offering sacrifices , Eating biscuits, etc.During the Qixi Festival in Kaifeng in the Northern Song Dynasty, there are four kinds of activities during the day and night.Daytime activities mainly include book drying festival, begging for cleverness, holding lotus leaves, and children wearing new clothes; nighttime activities mainly include knotting a color building, offering sacrifices and begging for cleverness, threading needles and spider webs for begging for cleverness, and boys begging for cleverness.
In addition, there is a range of food, toys, plants.Such as pancakes, mohuluo rice, fruit food (cakes made of sugar noodles), Mohule (children’s dolls made of earth, wood and other sculptures), Guban (miniature plant gardens), and melons (carved into patterns with melons) , Seed students (potted plants), neem leaves (to serve food during sacrifices).Hangzhou Qixi Festival activities in the Southern Song Dynasty mainly include eating fruit, threading needles, begging for cleverness on cobwebs, mohoro (mud dolls), holding lotus leaves, and floating waxy water birds on the water.
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