"The silver candle is cold in autumn, and the screen is painted, and the light silk fan is fluttering with fireflies." Qixi is a traditional festival in China. The customs such as threading a needle to beg for cleverness, and storing water on Qixi reflect a "Chinese romance". The annual festivals, including Qixi Festival, are full of profound cultural heritage and humanistic color. Recently, Cheng Peng, an assistant researcher of the Institute of Literature of the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, interpreted the origin and various customs of Qixi Festival. He said that Qixi delicacies include delicate fruits and some seasonal fruits, and Qixi stargazing is a relic of star worship in ancient times. Qixi originated from the worship of celestial phenomena? About the origin of Qixi, there are mainly the worship of natural phenomena, time and numbers, and so on. Data picture: Traditional Star Sacrifice Ceremony on Qixi. In fact, Lu Ming said that Qixi mainly originated from the worship of natural phenomena. People gradually personified Vega and Altair, and combined the production practice of men's farming and women's weaving, created the legend of Niulang and Zhinv. Later, Qixi gradually developed into a festival with rich customs and connotations. When did the legend of "Cowherd and Weaver Girl" appear? The legend of "Cowherd and Weaver Girl" originated very early and took shape in the late Warring States period. In the Han Dynasty, the legend of Niulang and Zhinv meeting on Qixi was very mature, and the related festival customs began to be popular. This legend was popular in the Han Dynasty and has a deep social and cultural soil. The love and marriage of the Han Dynasty were already subject to family and social constraints. Its secular evolution in the Han Dynasty made it more closely related to the daily life reality of ordinary people, and thus became the object of people's emotional sustenance. Why is Qixi called China's "Valentine's Day"? Calling Qixi as China's "Valentine's Day" is mainly a cultural reconstruction of the contemporary era. Of course, the traditional Qixi itself contains the element of love. The legend of Niulang and Zhinv praises the persistence of love, so there is some truth in calling it China's "Valentine's Day". Some scholars have already demonstrated this. However, some scholars have raised objections, saying that Qixi has rich festival customs. In the framework of the Western Valentine's Day, it is reluctant to call Qixi China's Valentine's Day, and the related customs of Qiqiao Day and Daughter's Day are easy to be marginalized. Data picture: scene of praying ceremony for "Lilliputian Day", a custom of Shitang Qixi. When did Zheng Jie take Qixi as a festival? Qixi was officially regarded as a festival in the Han Dynasty. The Han Dynasty was the period when Qixi changed from an astronomical point in the ancient calendar to a festival custom in the year of the year, and some festival customs in later generations were basically formed in the Han and Wei dynasties. As recorded in the "Miscellaneous Records of the Western Capital" compiled by Ge Hong from Jin Dynasty, the Han Palace "On the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, near the Baizi Pond, composed the music of Yutian. After the music was completed, it was bound by five colored threads, which is called" connected love ". In addition, "Han colored women often wear seven hole needles on the Kaifeng Tower on July 7th, and everyone is accustomed to it", which depicts that customs such as begging for cleverness had already become popular at that time. Why is it also called "Qiqiao Festival"? Qixi Festival also has many proper names, some are named according to the location of the calendar where the festival is located, such as July 7, Qixi; Named according to the main body of the festival activities, such as Daughter's Day; Named according to the content of the festival's activities, such as Qiqiao Festival and Qiaoxi. The Qiqiao Festival mainly originated from the ancient custom of women begging for skills from weavers. In Xihe County, Longnan Prefecture, Gansu Province, it still retains complete rituals and is known as a living fossil