Qixi Festival (Chinese: 七夕节; Mandarin Pinyin: qī xī jié; Jyutping: cat1 zik6 zit3; literally "The Night of Sevens"), also known as Magpie Festival, falls on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month on the Chinese calendar; thus its name. It also inspired Tanabata (aka. Shichiseki [七夕]) in Japan, Chilseok (칠석) in Korea, and vi:Thất Tịch in Vietnam. It is sometimes called Chinese Valentine's Day (Simplified Chinese: 情人节 Pinyin: Qíng rén jié) in recent decades.
七夕節，又名乞巧節、七巧節或七姐誕，是華人地區以及東亞各國的傳統節日，在農曆七月初七慶祝（日本在明治維新後改為陽曆7月7日），來自於牛郎與織女的傳說。
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a children's novel written by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W.W. Denslow. It was originally published by the George M. Hill Company in Chicago on May 17, 1900,[1] and has since been reprinted countless times, most often under the name The Wizard of Oz, which is the name of both the 1902 stage play and the extremely popular, highly acclaimed 1939 film version. The story chronicles the adventures of a girl named Dorothy in the Land of Oz. Thanks in part to the 1939 MGM movie, it is one of the best-known stories in English popular culture and has been widely translated. Its initial success, and the success of the popular 1902 Broadway musical Baum adapted from his story, led to Baum writing thirteen more Oz books.
Baum dedicated the book "to my good friend & comrade, My Wife", Maud Gage Baum. In January 1901, the publisher, the George M. Hill Company, completed printing the first edition, which probably totaled around 35,000 copies. Records indicate that 21,000 copies were sold through 1900.
《綠野仙蹤》是美國的一系列童話故事，由李曼·法蘭克·鮑姆著，W.W.丹斯洛繪製插圖。其以時間為序，環繞奧茲國的歷史，由《奧茲國的魔法師》開始，講述了一個名為桃樂斯的小女孩在奧茲國和獅子、機器人、稻草人追尋勇氣、善心和智慧的歷險故事。有時它亦專指《奧茲國的魔法師》這本書。有人以「奧茲國童話」、「奧茲系列」等名稱來稱呼這系列的故事。首14本由《奧茲國的魔法師》的原作者李曼·法蘭克·鮑姆寫，在他逝世後，Ruth Plumly Thompson繼續這系列的故事，再連同其他作家的七本，視為這個經典故事的原版故事，合稱「Famous Forty」。除了這40多本之外，其他作家亦有寫作有關奧茲國的故事，如前蘇聯作家亞歷山大·M·沃爾科夫。
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Qixi Festival (Chinese: 七夕节; Mandarin Pinyin: qī xī jié; Jyutping: cat1 zik6 zit3; literally "The Night of Sevens"), also known as Magpie Festival, falls on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month on the Chinese calendar; thus its name. It also inspired Tanabata (aka. Shichiseki [七夕]) in Japan, Chilseok (칠석) in Korea, and vi:Thất Tịch in Vietnam. It is sometimes called Chinese Valentine's Day (Simplified Chinese: 情人节 Pinyin: Qíng rén jié) in recent decades.
