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"Double-Seventh Day" Culture in Ancient Pictures

Updated: 2010-09-09 17:04
Here are some selected pictures of the Double-Seventh Day:

This picture is named “Banquet Held in the Palace,” or “Begging for Dexterity,” kept in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in America. It’s a copy or revision in the Northern Song Dynasty period describing the senses in the palace in the evening of the Double-Seventh Day adopting the view of overlooking.

This picture describes the musical instruments placed in the palace on the evening of the Double-Seventh Day.

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