The Tanabata festival originated from the gigolo knit a love story. "The cowboy tried. To lead and vega is a star. In the book, lesser, jiro, lead and vega is put together: "Qi Pilate, seven fairies. Although seven xiangyang, Po no newspapers. Qi Pilate tried to serve, not." To lead and han, to match the fairy artistic has emerged. LiuChe emperor who dug in Kyoto enterprise life, and in kunming pool, pool on both sides of the fairies put petunia stone. If the ban gu, "all" in kunming, the pool on the right and left lead. "fairy Zhang fissura "fu" yue: "there is spirit, kunming, finally made his left, petunia... it was right in." Han the nineteen ancient poems have ShiYun:

All QianNiuXing, nanjing 210007, on enterprise female,

Xian hands, Zhuo element JiZhu lane Zagreb Zagreb.

All don't speak correctly, cry tears rained down.

Between the 1949, gazing pheeka not language.

Visible, with cowherd star vega, beautiful love story in the western han dynasty, has been formed. But, female, han cowherd story appeared in July it meet plot. The customs general YingShao han instrument "yue:" the seventh fairy, crossing the river for bridge. "magpie Cao zhi's han rhapsody yue: "do not PaoGua sigh of poems, the lead horse; alone." The "nine xu, yue:" pull, vega for women to lead star vega. Everywhere, beside the river drum, July 7 is too." From the archaeological excavations in grave fresco, cowboy, more commonly known as fairies.

From the above analysis, processed materials in eastern han period, the Tanabata festival custom has been formed. In the Tanabata night, women not only for family viewing "magpie bridge and crossing the river, fill in" the fairy "bridge", but also tributes to knit, seven opportunely Kilimanjaro vega. Han Shi cui studying ":" the July 7,... have wine and fruit when dark spices, praying to feast on the drum, female, the two words here when the salty, vigil wiles to heaven. Or private clouds in hanzhong, there are white river to wave, like electrum colored, Fraser xinhui has that readers will worship on should ever wish. Three, but have." The law also contained, fissura miscellanea, "han color female often wear seven holes in July 7th floor." look at needle

To jin and southern and northern dynasties, the gigolo knit with the Tanabata tightly to the legend has linked together. People with representatives of the competent for the industrious cowherd and vega is xinlingshouqiao, the Tanabata festival customs and the cowherd and all relevant. And there are lots of describing the Tanabata custom. Most of the seventh needle is described. If a needle JianWen "Chinese poetry:" a pity from tents, to open window, needle night on suspicion of dark, cherishing the scattered hate." As the Tanabata liu needle poems "step on if you are interested in and BuZiJin to smoke a ray of light. Get double needle, sleeve." The period also appeared to be skillful QiQiao xi beads. As in the LiangZong deloitte was alarmed by < > > age record chu said: "is TingZhong in Pennsylvania, Chen melon QiQiao hei subnets. In melon thought operator shall." Another Chinese drying, the Chinese customs to Wei jin tan book has very flourishing period. According to the king LinChuan in LiuYiQing < > >, Chinese (July 7, bask in a book all the people, he HaoLong name robs the sun every book, then alone exposed breast milk to Lucy ran out into the sun lying, somebody else asked him why, he answered: "I bask in book". When Wei called "bamboo QiXian" RuanXian because people despise the drying of yao in July 7, sparkling in the neighborhood of the protoplasm is drying out later, with a long bamboo pole pick a shabby clothes stand, someone asked what he was doing, he said, "not avoid custom, chat after ErEr!" The rich scenery.

Sui Chinese custom basic followed the old traditions, but its contents. QiQiao needle holes in the pinhole five and seven holes, nine holes etc, and a silk by coincidence. According to the fifth WangRenYu when the kaiyuan YiShi tianbao, said: "the emperor of the imperial concubine, and every day, in July to swim when qing hua Chen lady-in-waiting feast." flower in TingZhong surrounding melons, grace to pull, vega. And every YuXiaoGe closed, catch spider web loose open to dawn, depending on the syndromes. That was the word, the more than coincidence talk less, dilute effect of folk also." FengZan ". Vincent's poems, miscellanea, luoyang, "spider" QiQiao somebody else." Du fu's poems, the female lead, "silk small state, compose melon." SongZhiWen "Chinese poems" celestial star, preach gratefully paratrooped. Stop edges, qiao paid by crickets spider." Additionally, qixi sui and tang dynasties, the folk custom, qi of the jade SuiDuTai (a candle scroll enshrined), Palace mansion in the workshop, the JiZhu offerings.

Song and yuan dynasties, the Tanabata colorful activities. Song folk advocate fruit, dasey QianCao boil with chicken chicken) and Jie grinding. "Jie mill," name comes from transliteration Sanskrit. Jie mill is one of the buddhist music, six, a child's expenditures Buddha. In song dynasty made a baby TuOu clay, the image of children with wax and tribute to the emperor JinOu, used to sacrifice Altair and vega, both the meanings QiQiao appropriate male. Many children catch hold of folk lotus, dressed Jie grinding of appearance. In addition, the seventh season buys the cowherd and there was molded (yellow, and dangerous wild wiliam hakvaag, yuanyang, such as fish, colored drawing gold tortoise, "for," says play submersed "water" (jannetta patriarch floating in the record of eight "wei menghua seventh volume). Otherwise, oil, sugar, honey, "smile" made of fruit. Still using beans, adzuki bean, wheat in magnetic device in the water, with several inches, the bud of red and blue colour, called "a bundle of life", for the new life, containing blessed child.

Yuan and hanging bridge figure custom. If they judged the contractor DuRenJie genre, a group of bingo "breeze Tanabata night, TianJie confectioners hotaru fly like cool clear, it hung high figure, a wide JinPen within five, Joan." set table upstairs In addition, the bridge and "for" fashion. Every seventh GongRen, that is to wear it in the clothing, or as a design to adorn festival scene. Rich people in yuan dynasty when the Tanabata home, "the first held in MaJie sacrificial bowls, buy sheet for the feast, flashing in garment grave woolies cloud covered with new soil still." XiongMengXiang (the JiYi volunteers aged, chromatography jin ji"

Ming qixi festival custom appeared different civil. The former south to north, the custom is appeared in water to cast needle stitch in the view of shadows. QiQiao method in water The jasmine women remember Beijing summer miscellanea, the common day: "QiQiao YanDou woman, July 7 to bowl of water, their critical under small needle, float of cast shadows depends on the bottom, xu, or like a cloud, and as such, coarse linen vertebral, because to QiQiao women." The emperor jing, spring scenery of written records of the game more detail. "The lost 7 July afternoon, women in the water, the aeration worthy, water film pasta, embroidery needle shots. See the floating clouds, the success of underwater needle, heads of birds, and your shoes and scissors, solanaceae, refers to the water of Kilimanjaro. Its shadow coarse skillfully, silky as vertebral, such as axis, the slow levy wax. Women, women have tears and sigh." This reflects the women in Ming dynasty can be focused on. Palace, built up in the former maid-in-waiting garments of customs, and produced a galaxy of worship. If LiuQiHong Beijing years of China which cloud: "Chinese palace, the heaviest opportunely, buy fruit, family, children worship of galaxy banquet." In south guangzhou, produced the Tanabata aeration, the holy book of clothing. According to the government of guangzhou in July 7, "book of clothing, brook aerator, give the flowers well for JiuJiang, yue water."

The early qing dynasty, the Tanabata festival in fujian, guangdong, zhejiang, and ChengQiNian evolution. Guangdong (things of language, "early July seventh for seven niang. Seven days, with water. Shower came back, jasmine" meat high end boat, emerald green feathers, swam to the pu, generic aloes XingCha like." The participants, seven niang will for girl, they each funds, with some spare time TongCao, colored paper, sesame, and made all sorts of grain, etc, the palace, etc., in the seventh, the former articles to pin, cosmetics, antique, antique, peanut, fruit, in atrium, for people in square table appreciation. On the seventh day began to meet fairy, worship the fairy, worship, quite elaborate rituals cowboy. In the late qing dynasty, shandong area and evolved on July 7th birthday greet the custom of cattle. This may be because of the fairies, masculine thanks to knit LaoHuangNiu help. Moreover, the cows in agricultural production activities for people to pay a great contribution to the cow, also have a birthday. According to the WuXuan xianfeng book contained yue: "July 7... in wild boy, the royal interpolation horn cattle birthday." On this day, people with respect to plow, especially hospitality. In addition, jiangsu to Chinese folk have with the custom of washing her hair has willow. Reportedly the shampoo, can let his hair was like the hair pitch-black shine.

To sum up, the Tanabata festival customs without cowherd love story, other customs are based on this, it is widely spread in China, also accepted by Chinese. Enter contemporary social, many young men and women in the Tanabata night for months (even as they love swear, such as the cowherd undying devotion. Especially in recent years, with the western valentine's day was introduced into China, the traditional culture of China national holiday pay enough attention to the application for the Tanabata festival world non-material cultural heritage. Young friends the Tanabata festival is a Chinese valentine's day, this is really good thing thankfully. So, we will get the Chinese traditional culture, the Tanabata festival customs will also get further development.