What day is Chinese Valentine’s Day and what is the name of the festival?
Chinese Valentine’s Day refers to the Lantern Festival, the Shangsi Festival and the Qixi Festival.During these three festivals, women will go out to celebrate, so they are also called Valentine’s Day.The Lantern Festival is on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the Shangsi Festival is on the third day of the third lunar month, and the Qixi Festival is on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month.
Lantern Festival
The Lantern Festival falls on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month every year.Lantern Festival, also known as Lantern Festival, Shangyuan Festival, Yuan Ye, etc.The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar.The ancients called the night "Xiao", so the fifteenth day of the first month was called the "Lantern Festival".With the changes of society and the times, the customs and habits of the Lantern Festival have already changed a lot, but it is still a traditional Chinese folk festival.When the Lantern Festival was formed in the early days, it was only called the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the first half of the first lunar month or the moon moon.After the Sui Dynasty, it was called Yuan Xi or Yuan Ye.Influenced by Taoism in the early Tang Dynasty, it was also called Shangyuan, and it was only occasionally called Yuanxiao at the end of the Tang Dynasty.But since the Song Dynasty, it has also been called Dengxi.In the Qing Dynasty, it was also called the Lantern Festival.
On the night of the 15th day of the first lunar month, Chinese people are known for a series of traditional folk activities such as viewing lanterns, eating glutinous rice balls, guessing lantern riddles, and setting off fireworks.The Lantern Festival is also a romantic festival.In the traditional feudal society, the Lantern Festival also provides an opportunity for unmarried men and women to meet.Young girls in traditional society are not allowed to go out for free activities, but they can go out to play together during the festival, and enjoy the flowers on the Lantern Festival.The lantern is just an opportunity for friendship, and unmarried men and women can also find objects for themselves by the way.During the Lantern Festival, it is another time for young men and women to meet their lovers.
Shangsi Festival
Shangsi Festival falls on the third day of the third lunar month every year.The Shangsi Festival has a long history.In the ancient times, the Shangsi Festival has become a large-scale folk festival in some places.In the spring and Jingming, people walk out of their homes, gather by the water, and hold ominous elimination ceremonies.After the Wei and Jin Dynasties, due to the fashion of advocating nature and indulging in landscapes in the society at that time, for people, the significance of eliminating the festival was greatly weakened, and the meaning of welcoming the spring and enjoying the tour became more and more intense.The Western Jin Dynasty "Xia Zhongyu Farewell Biography" describes Luoyang in the Shangsi period as "men are dressed in Zhufu Yaolu, and women are beautiful and beautiful".The festival of Shangsi is set on the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar.
In ancient times, one of the main activities of the Shangsi Festival was the meeting of men and women, that is, "Valentine’s Day" when men and women expressed their love."Book of Songs, Zheng Feng, Qin Wei" has a cloud:’Qin and Wei, read them clearly.Men and women, Yin Qiying is here.The woman said, "Is there a view?" The scholar said, "Now that it is." Let’s go beyond the view, and enjoy it.Weishi and the woman, Yiqi will ridicule and give them a spoonful of medicine.Zhou etiquette has a set, unmarried women are to stay in the boudoir (that is, the women in the boudoir), so there are only a few days a year to go out, (although this is etiquette, not a hard rule, but who will pursue Those who do not obey the etiquette.) Look at the lanterns on Lantern Festival, and go out for an outing on the third day of March.So the third day of March becomes the day when single men and women meet and get to know each other.
The Qixi Festival
The Qixi Festival falls on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month every year.The Qixi Festival started 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.In fact, the Qixi Festival is not to commemorate the love of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, but from the worship of the constellations (Wu female stars), who later evolved into the goddesses in mythology, and are also known as "Seven Sisters" and "Qiniangma" in the folk.The Qixi Festival is a festival for women.The Weaver Girl is regarded as the goddess of textiles and the protector of lovers, women and children.July 7th is the birthday of the Weaver Girl.
Mortal women begged her for wisdom and skill on the seventh night of the seventh lunar month, and they could not avoid asking for a happy marriage.Qixi Festival is to pray to Qijie (Vega) for ingenuity, hope for a happy marriage and a happy family.The beauties of the old times "begged for skill" to the seventh sister, begging her to teach her ingenious craftsmanship.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.
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