Celebrating the Qixi Festival (Chinese Valentine's Day) involves several customs and meanings:
Customs:
1. **Lantern Raising**: People often raise red lanterns to symbolize love and good fortune.
2. **Star Gazing**: Couples and singles look up at the stars to find the "Seven Sisters" (the Seven Stars of the Big Dipper) in the sky, hoping to find their true love.
3. **Making and Eating "Qingming Noodles"**: Eating these noodles is believed to bring good luck in love.
4. **Bamboo Branches and Thorns**: It's a tradition to place bamboo branches with thorns in a pot with water, as a metaphor for the pain and joy of love.
5. **Love Poems and Rhymes**: Sharing love poems and rhymes, or even writing them, is common during the festival.
6. **Gift Giving**: Exchanging gifts with loved ones, especially chocolates and flowers, is also part of the celebration.
Meaning:
The Qixi Festival commemorates the romantic love story of the cowherd and the weaver girl, Niu Lang and Zhinu. According to the legend, the two lovers were separated by the Milky Way and could only meet once a year on this day. The festival is a time for people to celebrate and express their love, as well as to pray for their own happiness and the union of love. It's also a time to appreciate the importance of loyalty, perseverance, and the pursuit of one's dreams.
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