What festival is the seventh day of the seventh lunar month?

The seventh day of the seventh lunar month is China's Valentine's Day, also known as "Begging for Cleverness Festival".

It is a traditional folk festival in China, which evolved from the worship of stars in ancient times, was popular in the Western Han Dynasty and flourished in the Song Dynasty. Through historical development, it has been endowed with the beautiful love legend of "Cowherd and Weaver Girl", making it a festival symbolizing love, thus being regarded as the most romantic traditional festival in China, and it has also produced the cultural meaning of "China Valentine's Day" in contemporary times.

It is a festival to worship the seven sisters, and it is also a festival of love. It is a comprehensive festival with the folklore of "Cowherd and Weaver Girl" as the carrier, with the theme of blessing, begging and courtship, and women as the main body.

The custom of Valentine's Day in China

Customs include offering sacrifices to the moon, marriage and childbearing, begging for cleverness, receiving dew, and getting together at Xiangqiao. The most common custom of Valentine's Day in China is women's begging activities on the night of the seventh day of July.

In ancient times, women had the custom of Yue Bai. In traditional culture, the moon has always been an auspicious symbol for women. They often pray to the moon or pour out their troubles. Receiving dew, there is a popular custom of using washbasin to receive dew in rural areas of Zhejiang. Legend has it that the dew in Chinese Valentine's Day is the tears when the cowherd and the weaver girl meet. It is said that rubbing it on eyes and hands can make people agile.

Xiangqiao Festival, every year on Tanabata, people come to participate in the construction of Xiangqiao. In the evening, people offered sacrifices to the Double Star for good luck, and then burned Xiangqiao, symbolizing that the Double Star had crossed Xiangqiao and met happily.