The Qixi Festival is one of Chinese traditional festivals, and also known as the Chinese Valentine's Day.
It falls on the 7th day of the 7th Chinese lunar month. In 2022 that's August 4 (Thursday).
It's based on a romantic legend about a weaver girl and an ox herd.
The story tells of the romance between Zhinü ( the weaver girl, symbolizing the star Vega) and Niulang (the cowherd, symbolizing the star Altair). Their love was not allowed, and thus they were banished to opposite sides of the heavenly river (symbolizing the Milky Way).
Once a year, on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, a flock of magpies would form a bridge to reunite the lovers for a single day.
"The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl" originated from people’s worship of natural celestial phenomena, and later developed into the Qixi Festival since the Han Dynasty.It has also been celebrated as the Tanabata festival in Japan and the Chilseok festival in Korea. In ancient times, women would make wishes to the stars of Vega and Altair in the sky during the festival, hoping to have a wise mind, dexterous hand (in embroidery and other household tasks), and a wonderful marriage.
Peoples now more tend to celebrate Chinese Valentine's Day by giving flowers, chocolates, and other presents to their sweethearts.
It is also not a bad choice to enjoy the wine or champagne in such a romance day and Charmlite as a professional manufacturer of shatterproof plastic wine glass and acrylic champagne glass will guarantee you a worry-free of broken glass.
Meanwhile, you can customized words or names on the plastic wine glass or on the plastic champagne flute and give them as a gift set to your beloved. Because in China, tumblers like wine glass or champagne glass are also called “bei zi”, if one give his or her beloved “bei zi” means they will accompany each other for the whole of life.
Post time: Aug-04-2022