七夕（Tanabata) means 7th of evening.七 means 7.
夕 means evening.
Tanabata is a star festival held each year on the seventh day of the seventh month, but is held on Aug 7th in Hokkaido and some other places.
It is originated in China, and is based on a legend that two starry lovers, the Cowherd(Altair) and the Weaver Maid (Vega),patroness of silkworm raising and weaving, meet once a year on this day , though on opposite banks of the River of Heaven(Milky Way).
We decorate some ornaments and strips on some bamboo branches.(Since I didn't have a bamboo tree, I hang some strips on the pine tree branches. We write our wish on some strips.
Originally bamboo was put up as a place to receive descending gods.
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