Wednesday, August 14, 2013
{ 1:30 AM }
I'm back to writing just because a bat flew into my kitchen this morning at around 1am, and I was extremely freaked out that I woke Mom up from her sweet dreams.
Apparently she said it will be a blessing because the "bat" which flew in, might be a sparrow or magpie. Which turns out that it is Qixi aka Qiqiao festival today.
"Qixi Festival (Chinese: 七夕), also known as the Qiqiao Festival (Chinese: 乞巧節), is a Chinese festival that celebrates the annual meeting of the cowherd and weaver girl in Chinese mythology.
It falls on the seventh day of the 7th month on the Chinese calendar and is sometimes called the Double Seventh Festival or the Magpie Festival. In most part of China, this is an important festival for young girls, and sometimes called the Chinese Valentine's Day.
The festival originated from the romantic legend of two lovers, Zhinü and Niulang, who were the weaver maid and the cowherd, respectively.
The tale of The Weaver Girl and the Cowherd has been celebrated in the Qixi Festival since the Han Dynasty.
The earliest-known reference to this famous myth dates back to over 2600 years ago, which was told in a poem from the Classic of Poetry The festival inspired Tanabata in Japan and Chilseok in Korea."
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qixi_Festival
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