Even the Milky Way could NOT Stop the Love

Today is Chinese Valentine’s Day. Undoubtedly, this is a day devoted to romance. There is a beautiful love story about the origin for this special day.

The 7th daughter of the Queen of the Heaven and an orphaned cowherd fell in love with each other. In order to separate them, the Queen pulled off her hairpin and draw a line between them. The line became the Milky Way. The 7th daughter was forced to move to the star Vega and the cowherd moved to the star Altair. They are allowed to meet only once a year on the day of 7th day of 7th lunar month. On that day, magpies would gather and form a bridge for the couple to meet in the evening. More about the legend…

Therefore, the day they meet became Chinese Valentine’s Day. It is said that if the night Chinese Valentine’s Day rains, the rain are the tears of the Weaving Maid and Cowherd. Tonight, the rain is so heavy and does it mean they are very sad? Anyway, wish they will cherish the time they spend together and may all the lovers enjoy happy endings.

More about the Custom of Chinese Valentine

On Chinese Valentine’s Day, couples go to matchmaker temples to pray for everlasting love and marriage. Even single people will frequent the temple for luck in love. Chinese Valentine’s Day is also called “The Daughter’s Festival”. Long ago, Chinese girls aspired to becoming skilled craftswomen like the Weaving Maid. This skill was considered essential to their future as wives and mothers. On that night, unmarried girls prayed to the Weaving Maid star for the special gift. When the star Vega was high up in the sky, girls performed a small test by placing a needle on the water’s surface: If the needle did not sink, the girl was considered to be ready to find a husband. Once a year, on this day, girls could wish for anything their hearts desired.

In some Chinese provinces, people believe that decorating an ox’s horns with flowers on Chinese Valentine’s Day will ward off disaster. On the night of Valentine’s Day, women wash their hair to give it a fresh and shiny look; children wash their faces the next morning using the overnight water in their backyards for a more naturally beautiful appearance; and girls throw five-colored ropes made during the Chinese Dragon Boat Festival on the roofs so magpies can use them to build the bridge.

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