The Chinese festivals have the general characteristics of cultural inheritance and variability. Can you go to the civil affairs bureau to get a divorce on the Qixi Festival? If you want to know more about the Qixi Festival, come to Huayi Network to take a look.
Cannot get a divorce on Qixi Festival
Whether or not you can get a divorce on Qixi Festival depends on whether it is a working day.
If the Qixi Festival falls on a legal working day, you can go to the civil affairs bureau to apply for a divorce. Some places only handle marriage registration but not divorce on the Qixi Festival, which violates relevant laws and regulations and infringes on citizens' right to marital freedom. In 2023, the Qixi Festival falls on Tuesday, which is a legal working day, so you can go to the civil affairs bureau to handle divorce procedures on that day.
If the Qixi Festival falls on a legal working day, you can go to the civil affairs bureau to apply for a divorce. Some places only handle marriage registration but not divorce on the Qixi Festival, which violates relevant laws and regulations and infringes on citizens' right to marital freedom. In 2023, the Qixi Festival falls on Tuesday, which is a legal working day, so you can go to the civil affairs bureau to handle divorce procedures on that day.
Why is Qixi Festival considered as Valentine's Day
The lunar calendar Qixi Festival was originally not a Valentine's Day, but a festival where women worshipped the Seven Sisters and prayed for skillfulness. However, with the spread of the story of "Niulang and Zhinü", the Qixi Festival gradually took on a romantic color, so it gradually became a festival symbolizing love. Moreover, in modern times, people have begun to pay more attention to traditional Chinese festivals. Because there is no corresponding festival for Western Valentine's Day in China, people gradually shaped the Qixi Festival into the image of the "Chinese Valentine's Day" and advocated the public to celebrate traditional Chinese festivals rather than foreign ones.
What are the nursery rhymes related to the Qixi Festival?
Nursery Rhyme One:
Pray for skillful hands, pray for beautiful looks;
Pray for understanding, pray for a good appearance;
Pray for my parents to live a thousand years;
Pray for my sisters to live ten thousand years.
Nursery Rhyme Two:
Heavenly Emperor, earthly Emperor, I invite the Seventh Sister to descend from heaven.
I don't want your needle, I don't want your thread, just learn your seventy-two excellent skills.
Nursery Rhyme Three:
Skillful sprout, growing strangely. Growing in pots, covered with hands.
On the seventh day of the seventh month, pick them up and let the sisters and sisters look at their reflections.
It's like a flower, it's like a vegetable, see who has a clever mind and quick hands.
Pray for skillful hands, pray for beautiful looks;
Pray for understanding, pray for a good appearance;
Pray for my parents to live a thousand years;
Pray for my sisters to live ten thousand years.
Nursery Rhyme Two:
Heavenly Emperor, earthly Emperor, I invite the Seventh Sister to descend from heaven.
I don't want your needle, I don't want your thread, just learn your seventy-two excellent skills.
Nursery Rhyme Three:
Skillful sprout, growing strangely. Growing in pots, covered with hands.
On the seventh day of the seventh month, pick them up and let the sisters and sisters look at their reflections.
It's like a flower, it's like a vegetable, see who has a clever mind and quick hands.
