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[交流] [Rep]Qi Xi (Chinese Valentine’s Day)

Qi Xi (七夕; Pinyin: qī xī; “The Night of Sevens”) is Chinese Valentine’s Day (sometimes called Magpie Festival) It’s on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month on the Chinese calendar; thus its name. In 2007, this festival falls today, August 19.

There is a very romatic story of Cowherd and Weaver Girl. As in late summer, the stars Altair and Vega are high in the night sky, our ancestors observed that and a love story came out.

A young cowherd named Niulang (Chinese: 牛郎; Pinyin: niú láng, “the cowherd”, the star Altair) happens across seven fairy sisters bathing in a lake. Encouraged by his mischievous companion the ox, he steals their clothes and waits to see what will happen. The fairy sisters elect the youngest and most beautiful sister Zhinü (Simplified Chinese: 织女; Traditional Chinese: 織女; Pinyin: zhī nǚ, “the weaver girl”, the star Vega) to retrieve their clothing. She does so, but since Niulang has seen her naked, she must agree to his request for marriage. She proves to be a wonderful wife, and Niulang a good husband, and they are very happy together. But the Goddess of Heaven (in some versions Zhinü’s mother) finds out that a mere mortal has married one of the fairy girls and is furious. (In another version, the Goddess forced the weaver fairy back to her former duty of weaving colorful clouds in the sky because she could not do her job while married to the mortal.) Taking out her hairpin, the Goddess scratches a wide river in the sky to separate the two lovers forever (thus forming the Milky Way, which separates Altair and Vega).



Zhinü must sit forever on one side of the river, sadly weaving on her loom, while Niulang watches her from afar and takes care of their two children (his flanking stars β and γ Aquilae).

But once a year all the magpies in the world take pity on them and fly up into heaven to form a bridge (鵲橋, “the bridge of magpies”, Que Qiao) over the star Deneb in the Cygnus constellation so the lovers may be together for a single night, the seventh night of the seventh moon.



There are also lots of traditions, but now in China, we usually treat Qi Xi as the second Valentine’s Day in a year. We also have many beautiful poems about Qi Xi, one of my favourite is:

秋夕 –(唐)杜牧
红烛秋光冷画屏,
轻罗小扇扑流萤。
天阶夜色凉如水,
坐看牵牛织女星。

Translated as:
The painted screen is chilled in silver candlelight,
She uses silken fan to catch passing fireflies.
The steps seem steeped in water when cold grows the night,
She lies watching heart-broken stars shed tears in the skies.
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如果我儿子长大当军人,我会告诉他,做为军人,不仅要服从命令,还要服从真理和正义,生你的是父母,养你的是百姓,所以你所做的,必须对人民有利,永远记住,.
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如果我儿子长大当军人,我会告诉他,做为军人,不仅要服从命令,还要服从真理和正义,生你的是父母,养你的是百姓,所以你所做的,必须对人民有利,永远记住,.
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小木虫: 金币+0.2, 抢了个小板凳,给个红包
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2楼: Originally posted by hobbyzhang at 2012-08-23 12:31:00
Happy  Qixi

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best wishes
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curton: 金币+4, Its really a miserable and beautiful love story 2012-08-24 07:45:03
curton: 回帖置顶 2012-08-24 21:25:02
Its really a miserable and beautiful love story. But in our country everyone will heared it at our childhood. But its really very mysterious, most of at this day will raining. The God was really moved by their real  love? Or they really very sad and many of tears?
But its only a fable!
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curton: 金币+3, no rose, no date, what a pity, you can give a call to your boyfriend 2012-08-24 07:47:20
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good translation for the poem
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There is a very romatic story of Cowherd and Weaver Girl. As in late summer, the stars Altair and Vega are high in the night sky, our ancestors observed that and a love story came out.
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