Tanabata Festival

Tanabata, formerly known as Qi Qiao Festival. Tanabata Qi Qiao, the festival originated in the Han Dynasty, the Eastern Jin Ge Hong's "Xijing Miscellanies" yes "Choi Han July 7 women often wear a seven-hole needle in the Han Dynasty stone cattle on lodging, female residents cardigan floor plans, human Ju Xi's "records, which is what we saw in the ancient literature of the earliest records on the Qi Qiao.

"Tanabata" At first, the people from the worship of nature. Historical documents from the point of view, at least in Sansiqiannian ago, as people's understanding of astronomy and the production of textile technology, the Altair Vega records have a. People are far more than the worship of the stars Altair and Vega, they think things have seven representatives of the North-South orientation of the stars, collectively known as Ershibasu, of which the Big Dipper the brightest available to identify the direction of the night. The first one is called the Big Dipper star Kuixing, also known as the ringleader. Later, with the examination system, Chinese scholar called "Da-kui world with disabilities," reading people have Tanabata called "Kuixing Festival", also known as "drying Book Festival," maintaining a constellation of worship from the earliest traces of Tanabata.

"Tanabata" also the source of ancient people's worship of the time. "Seven" and "period" are homonyms, month and day are "seven" to give people a sense of timing. In ancient China the day, month and water, fire, wood, gold and earth together, the five planets known as "Qi Yao." Number 7 in popular stage performance in terms of time, in the calculation of time, often with "77" as the final. Old Beijing's temple to the dead people to do often in order to make full, "77" to perfection. The "Qi Yao," computing is now "a week", in Japanese there are reservations. "Seven" again and "nothing" homophonic, "77," meaning there are pairs of Kyrgyzstan, is a auspicious day. In Taiwan, in July called "The Joy of Kyrgyzstan with a" month. Because hi words in cursive is like write continuously in the shape of the "77", so the 77-year-old known as "hi-shou."

"Tanabata" is a digital cult phenomenon, the ancient people the first month is, March 3, May 5, July 7, September 9 plus dual in February indicate a multiple of two and three this June 6 "The Seventh Drawer" are classified as auspicious day. "Seven" is the number of abacus beads each column, romantic and rigorous, gives a mysterious beauty. "Seven" and "wife" are homonyms, so a large extent Tanabata festival became associated with women.

A long time ago, the mountains inhabited by families, old people are dead, the family left the brothers. Eldest married daughter, this daughter-eye-well, the old want to dominate the old left the family business.
One day, two small dogs led to the cattle, to the ground, he beat the Cattle said: "The cow wow, cattle wow, I will feel sleepy, you can Do not run around." Ox, as came to understand people, then Dizhuonaodai "moo, moo" ground and ordered several more, Lut the name of the drafting of the tail to eat at his side. 2 small lay on the grass and fell asleep.

Miss noon, his wife, carrying her husband's brother to deliver meals to the jar to see are two little sleep, according to him, and kicks his foot severely. 2 small awake see is his wife, hurried to climb up, stare blankly standing on the ground like a chicken.
His wife the rice pot Wangdishangyi shelf, huff saying: "You're down at ease, and threw the sleeping cattle, cattle that I lost with you afterwards miles!" And she Yiniu bottom left.

2 small belly already hungry, and won the pot just to eat, surrounded by a large ox hit the cans, jars and fell one smashes. Big black dog saw the ground rice, opens his mouth and chew, a short while, put the rice on the ground licking of a spotless.
Seeing two small children afraid of broken ballast tank, and that several had not returned home. He sighed; "Oh, how I would like Mingku ah!"

Alas, two small sound just off the big black dog splash down on the ground, nose, mouth bleeding, while the broken gas. Then he was aware his wife in rice and down the poison.
2 careful thought: It seems that evil can not be refined in one passed, or else sooner or later die in her hands. Boss down fast on the Western Hills when he drove cattle back home. One into the courtyard, he turned back to see her brother playing outside, two small hearts an acid, two not stop to shed tears. Brother see the younger brother so sad, I do not know what happened at home, Mangwen: "Well so sorry for you for?" "I beat his wife to send the rice pot, and the dog ate the rice on the ground died." Brother listened to, knew of 89, the Big Dipper again no match for the women at home, in order to hard.

2 small tears, said: "Brother, let's separate off it." Brother see his younger brother, said to be split, more difficult to do, and one to his younger brother are still very small, two years he out doing business; home and there is no helper is not OK. If this was a makeshift forward over it, afraid of his brother had a sitting in waiting.

Seeing the two brothers to worry about, said: "Brother, I do not want to anything at home, as long as the bull." Dixiong Liang said in the courtyard, then separation and his wife heard, and psyche happy. Her hands were directed at her husband Pazhuo door, said: "The next all over all of the good, and I call the shots in accordance with a younger brother!"
His brother's eyes swimming with tears flowers, in a word did not.

The next day, rushing for two carts away. Walked up and down, farther and farther. 2 careful thought: always so go, go for a long time is the heads? Simply live in this bar! Improtance shed, and on and old cattle down the families here.

Cow is in heaven taurus lower bound has been followed by two smaller than a year, and this one night is dead. Old ox died, consecutive to the two small prop up the three dream, a dream of two novels: "By noon tomorrow, three engraving, I would like to go back to heaven. I left, you have stripped off my leather to wait until July 7 day, it draped over the body, Paul you can Heaven. Queen Mother has seven girl, the day they go to the Milky Way a bath. Remember, that a green clothes of the fairy is your wife. You must not let them see you, and so on They all went to the water, you hold the clothes on the back run, she must chase you. as long as you returned home, she would not go. "

The next day, two small see old ox died, do not eat nor drink, hand-touched it light crying. Then put the leather peeling, leaving behind buried cow leather, but also in cattle a grave and knees crying.

July 7 that day, two small donned leather, immediately feet away from, the Milky Way came fluttering leisurely ashore, he waited quietly hiding in the woods. A moment, Queen Mother of the seven fairy came, and they are one by one off the clothes, thump thump jump to the water.

2 small have aimed at those who are green clothes, Cuanguo grab them and run. 3 Fairy see someone hold her clothes, beat the water out of the chase. Slow hot pursuit chase, catch up with two small homes. 3 Fairy asked why take her two small clothes, two novel, wanted her to do his own daughter. 3 days Fairy has repeatedly said that regulation should not be, for two to say a better human than the sky. 3 Fairy see two small guy is good looking, but also move the heart, it should be him. To play this, where the three fairies down to earth, and she spent shells at home every day weaving, people called her Vega. 2 small things every day to make money selling cloth. Lovers had played an enjoyable day.

3 fairies and two smaller than the 2035, giving birth to a male and he was a woman. One day, two to go small enough to work, and the sky burst into a day of drums, the Jade Emperor sent heavenly days will Weaver captured. 2 small home a look, see the two children crying, not knowing where on the wife, anxious of turning. One to ask his son, and that older children overturned on a hand that is zoned, for two to think about Weaver left. He hastened to take up two children, covered with leather to catch Weaver.

Second, acute care, recovering quickly, seeing fast to catch up with Weaver, the angered the Queen Mother: "Well you have two small, Does it mean that you have to catch up with inside the celestial palace up?" She hit his head unplug the silver tube, in two small and Weaver the middle of a draw, immediately drawn into a Milky Way. 2 small there is no way to cross the river, anxious straight stamping, basket Zhihan mother of two children. Weaver and two small tears, and crying it is. 2 Weaver wanted to leave a small miss, buckle sets out to invest in cattle Weaver, Weaver received in the hands. Weaver thought, no Well may be sent, pulled out a small throwing two shining weaving shuttle, the Weaving Maiden Shoujin small, the weaving shuttle throwing shape.

Until now, the Milky Way side of the arms of a button sets Vega Star, on the other side of the Altair star next to a shuttle.