| Xihe county circulating in Gansu province within the territory of the southeast Qiqiao folk. Due to its special geographical environment and becomes a unique regional folk thing, It is held each year from June 30th to July 7th each year, which lasted eight night over seven days, is the most complete preservation of the Tanabata festival customs in our country. Qiqiao in xihe originated from people's worship of Qianniuxing and vega. And then evolve to the worship of ancestors female in Qin dynasty. As the blend of legendary stories, Qiqiao in xihe is having a lot of contents. The custom originated in Qin dynasty, growing up in the farming civilization soil, and reaching the prosperity era in tang and song dynasties. Nowadays, xihe already formed a set of complete and standard Gregorian calendar program.including welcoming, sacrificing, entertaining, singing, worshiping, farewell and so on. Qiqiao girls wish to be intelligent and nimble,they also pray for children, beauty and a happy year.Qiqiao in xihe contains abundant folk culture, we can also find folk literature, folk art and folk beliefs in it. These cultural's creator is women, behavior is also women, from their points of view to discuss female's psychology in Qiqiao,showing that Qiqiao has a positive far-reaching influence on women's aesthetic, desire express and gender identity Qiqiao in xihe has sustain, educate and adjust the social function for local women, it is the local people's cultural memory, over thousands of years, it has become the baptism of integrating reproductivity, integral, types, regional and spontaneity of the old folk, etc, among which, it handed down from one generation "qiao head" become the key figures in the Qiqiao inheritance. In modern civilization, how to correctly under the impact of protection and utilization, the traditional folk culture Qiqiao with modern coexistence, to protect and promote Chinese traditional folk culture is of far-reaching significance. |