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  2. Qixi Festival - Wikipedia

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    The festival has variously been called the Double Seventh Festival, [4] the Chinese Valentine's Day, [8] ... The popular tale is a love story between Zhinü ...

  3. Jia Qiaojie - Wikipedia

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    She remains a child throughout much of the novel. Because Qiaojie was born on the date of the Double Seventh Festival (known as Qixi 七夕 or Qiqiao 乞巧), which celebrates the annual reunion of the Weaver Girl and the Cowherd, Granny Liu names her Qiaojie 巧姐 in association, hoping the name will bestow some good luck and fortune.

  4. Tanabata - Wikipedia

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    The Sendai Tanabata Festival is the most famous in Japan. Tanabata has been celebrated in the region since the time of Date Masamune (1567–1636) who was the first warlord in the Sendai area. [22] The festival began shortly after the city was founded in the early Edo Period. The Tanabata festival gradually developed and became larger over the ...

  5. Chilseok - Wikipedia

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    Seventh Evening) is a Korean traditional festival which falls on the seventh day of the seventh month of the Korean lunisolar calendar, originating from the Chinese Qixi Festival. Chilseok is a period where the heat starts to dwindle and the Wet season begins, and the rain that falls during this period is called Chilseok water.

  6. Double Seventh Festival (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    The Double Seventh Festival (Chinese: 七夕) refers to the Qixi Festival in China. The Double Seventh Festival may also refer to: Chilseok in Korea; Tanabata in Japan

  7. “The Breakthrough” True Story: Inside the 2004 Double-Murder ...

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    The Breakthrough follows a double murder that took 16 years to solve — much like a real-life incident that occurred in Sweden in 2004.. Based on the 2021 novel of the same name, the Netflix ...

  8. The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl - Wikipedia

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    In Korea, the story focuses on Jicknyeo, a weaver girl who falls in love with Gyeonwoo, a herder. In Japan, the story revolves around the romance between the deities, Orihime and Hikoboshi. In Vietnam, the story is known as Ngưu Lang Chức Nữ and revolves around the story of Chức Nữ, the weaver, and Ngưu Lang, the herder of buffalos.

  9. Music festival revelers in the Israeli desert were killed by ...

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    Jonathan Polin said Hersh Goldberg-Polin, his 23-year-old son, was at the festival and had been missing for 36 hours. The last messages he sent his family read “I love you” and “I’m sorry.”