Love Holidays from Around the World
| February 13, 2019
7. Qixi Festival – China
A holiday that’s inspired by poetry and mythology that has been celebrated in China for thousands of years is the Qixi Festival, which is also known as the Double Seventh Festival, because it takes place on the seventh day of the seventh month of the Chinese calendar. It celebrates the meeting of Zhinü and Niulang, two mythological figures who were banished to opposite sides of the Milky Way, and only permitted to see each other once a year — on the seventh day of the seventh month.
In modern China, this holiday is celebrated by single women, who visit local temples to pray for wisdom and skill in housewifely arts.
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