When is Valentine’s Day in 2021, what day is it in the lunar calendar every year?
2021 Qixi Valentine’s Day is on August 14th of the Gregorian calendar, which is the seventh day of the lunar calendar every year.On the seventh day of the lunar month, it didn’t have the meaning of Valentine’s Day at first.Later, with the spread of the story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, it was gradually given the special meaning of Valentine’s Day in ancient China.
Introduction to the Qixi Festival
The Qixi Festival started in ancient times, popularized in the Western Han Dynasty, and flourished in the Song Dynasty.In ancient times, the Qixi Festival was a comprehensive festival with the folklore of "The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl" as the carrier, with the theme of blessing, begging, and love, and with women as the main body.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.
Time of Qixi Festival
The time of Qixi Festival is on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month every year."The seventh day of the seventh month" is related to the worship of numbers and time by the ancients.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.Therefore, the Gregorian calendar time of the Qixi Festival in 2021 is August 14, 2021.
Customs of the Qixi Festival
The ritual of sacrificing the moon, the ancient tradition of sacrificing the moon god in the culture of the Xia people, the ancient women had the custom of sacrificing the moon, in traditional culture , the moon is always auspicious for women.They often pray or pour out their hearts to the moon.
Marriage and childbirth love song, as an ancient festival of the Han nationality, ancestors worship the moon on the new sun, which itself is a reflection of begging for reproduction and prosperity.
The custom of begging for cleverness, the earliest method of begging for cleverness, began in the Han Dynasty and flowed to later generations.The earliest record was found in Ge Hong’s "Xijing Miscellaneous Notes" of the Eastern Jin Dynasty:"Han Cai women often wear seven-hole needles on the 7th day of the seventh lunar month in the Kaijinlou, and people are accustomed to it." The custom of collecting dew in a washbasin is popular.Legend has it that the dew on the Qixi Festival is the tears when the Cowherd and Weaver Girl meet.Legend has it that when it is smeared on the eyes and hands, it can make people sharp.
Incense Bridge Festival, every year on Qixi Festival, people come to participate in the construction of incense bridges.At night, people offer sacrifices to the twin stars, beg for auspiciousness, and then burn the incense bridge, symbolizing that the twin stars have crossed the incense bridge and meet happily.
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