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Why Do We Celebrate Qixi Festival?: A Fun, Educational, and Illustrated Holiday Book for Kids and Curious Minds About China's Festival of Love
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Series: Celebrations for Kids
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ISBN13: 9798192181430
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 78
Weight: 0.26
Height: 0.16 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 78
Weight: 0.26
Height: 0.16 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Look beyond the Milky Way and discover a festival of stars, skills, devotion, and love! Why do the bright stars Vega and Altair appear on opposite sides of the Milky Way? How can magpies build a bridge in the sky? Why Do We Celebrate Qixi Festival? introduces young readers to an enchanting Chinese celebration and the beloved legend of the Weaver Girl and the Cowherd. Held on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, Qixi has been celebrated for more than two thousand years. It connects an unforgettable starry folktale with older traditions honoring skill, weaving, creativity, and hope. Here is what you will discover inside:
- A Love Story Written in the Stars: Meet Zhinü, the heavenly Weaver Girl represented by Vega, and Niulang, the Cowherd represented by Altair.
- The River Across the Sky: Learn how the Milky Way separates the pair and why thousands of compassionate magpies form a bridge for their annual reunion.
- The Festival to Plead for Skills: Discover how girls once asked Zhinü for clever hands in sewing, weaving, cooking, and other important crafts.
- Curious Skill Tests: Float a needle on prepared water, examine its shadow, open a spider's box to inspect its web, and explore the playful beliefs behind each tradition.
- Beautiful Foods and Crafts: Taste Qiaoguo skill pastries, watch melons become carved birds and flowers, wear Hanfu traditional clothing, and make starry decorations.
- Qixi Today: See how needle-threading contests, cultural activities, flowers, special dinners, and the nickname Chinese Valentine's Day connect the old and new.
- Visual Delight: Enjoy beautiful, minimalist colorful illustrations filled with glowing stars, silk clouds, magpies, pastries, needles, flowers, and night skies.
- Exciting Fun Facts: Learn why Qixi changes date each year, how two real stars support the legend, and why the festival was once more strongly associated with craftsmanship than romance. Perfect for families, classrooms, homeschoolers, and young cultural explorers, this book celebrates practice, creativity, loyalty, storytelling, and the people we cherish. Grab your copy today and cross the magpie bridge into a starry adventure!
- The River Across the Sky: Learn how the Milky Way separates the pair and why thousands of compassionate magpies form a bridge for their annual reunion.
- The Festival to Plead for Skills: Discover how girls once asked Zhinü for clever hands in sewing, weaving, cooking, and other important crafts.
- Curious Skill Tests: Float a needle on prepared water, examine its shadow, open a spider's box to inspect its web, and explore the playful beliefs behind each tradition.
- Beautiful Foods and Crafts: Taste Qiaoguo skill pastries, watch melons become carved birds and flowers, wear Hanfu traditional clothing, and make starry decorations.
- Qixi Today: See how needle-threading contests, cultural activities, flowers, special dinners, and the nickname Chinese Valentine's Day connect the old and new.
- Visual Delight: Enjoy beautiful, minimalist colorful illustrations filled with glowing stars, silk clouds, magpies, pastries, needles, flowers, and night skies.
- Exciting Fun Facts: Learn why Qixi changes date each year, how two real stars support the legend, and why the festival was once more strongly associated with craftsmanship than romance. Perfect for families, classrooms, homeschoolers, and young cultural explorers, this book celebrates practice, creativity, loyalty, storytelling, and the people we cherish. Grab your copy today and cross the magpie bridge into a starry adventure!
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