Tanabata sentences expressing love

The Chinese Valentine's Day expression of love is don't look at the flowers blooming late, and keep the heart first. Today, she doesn't like the rain, so I will melt the snow next year.

Chinese Valentine's Day

Chinese Valentine's Day (Begging for Qiaojie Festival) or "Daughter's Day", "Women's Day" and "Ancient Women's Day". Traditional festivals popular in Xihe County, Gansu Province, are one of the national intangible cultural heritages.

The Qixi Qiqiao folk custom in Xihe County of Gansu Province appeared in the Han Dynasty. After the development in the Tang and Song Dynasties, it flourished in the Ming and Qing Dynasties and has a history of more than a thousand years.

Xihe Qiqiao folk activities are rich in content and varied in forms. They start on the evening of June 3th (the 29th day of the first lunar month) and end on the evening of July 7th, and last for seven days and eight nights. The whole activity is divided into seven parts: sitting, welcoming, offering, worshiping, entertaining, divining and sending.

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The main activities of Chinese Valentine's Day (Begging for Clever Festivals) include building bridges by hand, jumping on hemp, praying for the gods to meet the water, making clever use of the petals, making clever meals and so on.

Every year, from the end of June of the lunar calendar, in Xihe County, girls who are not married get busy and get together to discuss how to spend their own special festivals.

Generally, several sisters with good relations initiate activities, and unmarried women in the same village form a "venue" (commonly known as the "Chess Fair"). After choosing the Qiqiao venue, the girls used their leisure time to practice singing "Qiqiao Song" in their aunt's house with better living conditions.

On June 26th to 29th of the lunar calendar, girls will welcome "Qiao Niangniang" from the paper goods store in the market town. "Qiao Niangniang" please sit on the table, and you must cover your face with a silk handkerchief, because it is not time to formally meet Qiao.

On the evening of the 3th day of the sixth lunar month, the girls dressed up and lined up neatly, picked up the "Qiao Niangniang", served incense wax paper trays, and held a ceremony to welcome Qiao by the river under the guidance of elderly women. The host burned incense and wax, burned paper and fired guns. The head of "Qiaoniangniang" knelt to greet the worship, while the rest of the girls stood by the river and sang "Yingqiaoge" together.

Then, take off the silk handkerchief from Qiao Niangniang's head and sing along the way to invite Qiao Niangniang into the courtyard. Sing "Song of Entering the Courtyard" when entering the courtyard, and sing "Song of Sitting Clever" when entering the room. Then there is the dedication of tea fruits and the singing of "Tea Song", and the begging activities officially kicked off.