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1、Double Seventh Day,Chinese Valentines Day,LiJun,Cowhert Star,Weaving Girl Star,Milky Way,On the night of the 7th day of the 7th lunar month every year,they meet at the Magpie Bridge for a short time.,Outline,IntroductionThe origin of the Double Seventh DayLegend about the Double Seventh DayFolk Cust
2、oms on the Double Seventh Day,Introduction,A traditional festival full of romanceThe 7th day of the 7th lunar monthThe Weaving Girl（织女）and the Cowherd（牛郎）in heaven would meet at the Magpie Bridge Also called Begging-for-Dexterity Festival（乞巧节）（The Weaving Girl is a beautiful and smart fairy with def
3、t hands and the women in the mortal world will beg for intelligence and deft needle work from her）,The Origin of the Double Seventh Day,originating from nature worship of the human raceDouble-Seventh Day was also the product of time worship of the ancientsthe number 七 appears in both month and day g
4、iving a strong sense of time.,The Origin of the Double Seventh Day,Double Seventh Day is also a phenomenon of number worship七 bears the same pronunciation with 妻(wife),thus the Double Seventh Day is to a great extent a festival related to women.,Legend about the Double Seventh Day the Cowherd and th
5、e Weaving Girl,The fairy tale of the Cowherd and the Weaving Girl is one of the four most famous folktales of ancient China.It is a classic love story between a fairy and a human being enjoying a widespread influence.,Legend about the Double Seventh Day the Cowherd and the Weaving Girl,Long long ago
6、,there was a very poor but clever,diligent and honest boy named Cowherd.His parents died when he was a child.Later he was driven out of his home by his sister-in-law.But his cattle is very loyal to him.,Legend about the Double Seventh Day the Cowherd and the Weaving Girl,The Weaving Girl is a beauti
7、ful and smart fairy with deft hands.She had grown tired of the life at the heavenly palace,longed for a life among the common people.,Legend about the Double Seventh Day the Cowherd and the Weaving Girl,The cattle gave the Cowherd a tip:take the fairys clothes when she is taking a bath,then she cant
8、 go back to the heavenly palace.,Legend about the Double Seventh Day the Cowherd and the Weaving Girl,They fell in love with each other and lived a happy life.,Legend about the Double Seventh Day the Cowherd and the Weaving Girl,Unfortunately,the fact that they have fell in love was found out soon T
9、he Queen Mother of brought the Weaving Girl back and drew a big river across the sky,known to the Chinese as the Silvery River(the Milky Way in the West),to drive a wedge between them.,Legend about the Double Seventh Day the Cowherd and the Weaving Girl,However,all the magpies in the world,deeply to
10、uched by the story,came to their rescue.Every year on the seventh day of the seventh month,they would flock together to form a bridge so that the Cowherd and the Weaving Girl could enjoy a brief reunion.,Legend about the Double Seventh Day the Cowherd and the Weaving Girl,This story,to some extent,r
11、eflects Chinese peoples wishes to pursue the freedom of love and marriage.,Legend about the Double Seventh Day the Cowherd and the Weaving Girl,The fairy tale also contains Chinese peoples understanding about star images.In the tale,the Weaving Girl Star(the Vega)is the brightest star in the constel
12、lation Lyra,facing the Cowherd Star(the Altair),the brightest star in the constellation Aquila,across the Milky Way.,Legend about the Double Seventh Day the Cowherd and the Weaving Girl,On the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar every year,Chinese women customarily look up into th
13、e night sky,searching for the Weaving Girl Star and the Cowherd Star on both sides of the Milky Way and hoping to see their annual gathering.Meanwhile,girls on the ground hope to have clever hands and good sense,just like the Weaving Girl.They also pray for a happy marriage of their own.,Folk Custom
14、s on the Double Seventh Day-Ingenuity test by floating needle（投针验巧）,Ingenuity test by floating needle is one of the common customs on the festival.Put some water in a vessel and leave it in the open air until it is covered by a film of dust.Then cast a needle or thin straw on it to see the pattern o
15、f the shadow at the bottom,so as to test their ingenuity,Folk Customs on the Double Seventh Day-Pleading for Skills by Threading a Needle,In order to plead for skills,threading a needle（穿针乞巧）is the most long-standing means.It tests the speed of threading a needle under the moon.It is said that the n
16、eedles used in the contest are the seven-hole needle of the Han Dynasty or the nine-tail needle of the Yuan Dynasty.With more holes than ordinary needles,they are rather hard to handle.,Folk Customs on the Double Seventh Day-Cobweb as the Determinant（喜蛛应巧）,Pleading for skills with cobweb is another
17、common custom in the festival,in which everybody puts a spider into a locket and waits until the next morning to see if there is cobweb and if any,how it looks.The one with a most round cobweb of the most mesh will be the winner.,Folk Customs on the Double Seventh Day-Qiaoguo(巧果),Qiaoguo（Fried Thin
18、Pastes）is in different shapes with the materials mostly being oil,flour,sugar and honey.The deft hands will nip them into all shapes related to the legend of the Festival.The melons and fruits used on the day are usually carved into the shapes of flowers and birds,or carved with patterns in relief on the melon peel,which are therefore called“carved melons”,THANK YOU!,
