The Qixi Festival (Chinese: 七夕), also known as the Qiqiao Festival (Chinese: 乞巧), is a Chinese festival celebrating the annual meeting of Zhinü and Niulang in Chinese mythology.[1][2][3][4] The festival is celebrated on the seventh day of the seventh lunisolar month on the Chinese lunisolar calendar.[1][2][3][4]
A celebration of romantic love, the festival is often described as the traditional Chinese equivalent of Valentine's Day.[5] The festival is derived from Chinese mythology: people celebrate the romantic legend of two lovers, Zhinü and Niulang,[5][2][4] who were the weaver girl and the cowherd, respectively. The tale of The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl has been celebrated in the Qixi Festival since the Han dynasty.[6] The earliest-known reference to this famous myth dates back to more than 2,600 years ago, which was told in a poem from the Classic of Poetry.[7]
The festival has variously been called the Double Seventh Festival,[4] the Chinese Valentine's Day,[8] the Night of Sevens,[2][9] or the Magpie Festival.[10]
^ abZhao 2015, 13.
^ abcdBrown & Brown 2006, 72.
^ abPoon 2011, 100.
^ abcdMelton & Baumann 2010, 912–913.
^ abWei, Liming (2010). Chinese Festivals: Traditions, Customs and Rituals (Second ed.). Beijing: China Intercontinental Press. pp. 43–46. ISBN 9787508516936.
^Schomp 2009, 70.
^Schomp 2009, 89.
^Welch 2008, 228.
^Chester Beatty Library, online Archived 2014-10-22 at the Wayback Machine.
^"Magpie Festival". prezi.com. Archived from the original on 18 November 2021. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
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