Event Preview | Heartfelt Qixi: Painting Fans and Seeking Verses

At Yuming Hall, the spring green screens unfold, and new verses of “The Peony Pavilion” are sung far and wide.

— Ming Dynasty, Tang Xianzu, “Drunk Reply to Jun Dong on the Qixi Festival”

The Qixi Festival, also known as the Double Seventh Festival, the Seventh Sister’s Festival, the Daughters’ Festival, the Festival of Skill‑Seeking, the Seven Ladies’ Gathering, the Qixi Rite, or the Night of Skill, is a traditional folk festival in China. , with themes of blessing, skillful craftsmanship, and love 。

The Qixi Festival evolved from the worship of the stars and is traditionally known as the “Birthday of the Seventh Sister.” Because the rituals honoring the “Seventh Sister” are held on the evening of the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, it is called “Qixi.” Over the course of history, the Qixi Festival has been endowed with “ The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl the beautiful legend of “, It is said that on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month each year, the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl meet in the sky. Magpie Bridge Meeting. At this point, it has become a symbol. Love The festival is regarded as China’s most romantic traditional holiday. 。

Delicate clouds play with artful grace, while shooting stars carry sorrow—across the vast Milky Way, love secretly makes its way. As another Qixi Festival arrives, our museum will host the “Painted Fan: A Tale of Fate” and “Seeking Love Through Verse” events. You are warmly invited. Arriving at the Tang Xianzu Memorial Hall in Fuzhou City , in Amidst beautiful moments and delightful pleasures, experience the world of profound emotion as depicted by Tang Xianzu. 。

Event Time

The seventh day of the seventh lunar month (August 4)

9:00—11:00

Event Location

Yumingtang First-Floor Bookstore