What are the customs and activities of Valentine's Day in China? Is it inappropriate to travel on Tanabata in 2020?

What are the customs and activities of Valentine's Day in China?

China Valentine's Day activities: drying books/clothes.

The official record of folk activities began in the Eastern Han Dynasty. The Moon Order for Four People (written in 166) recorded that on July 7th, the banners were draped and the ears were picked. The custom of revealing books and clothes remained until the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Tanabata custom activities: seven dishes and one soup/colorful silk in human form

Chronicle of Jingchu: The seventh day of the first month is the day, and seven kinds of dishes are used as soup, colorful people, or thin people, with screens and temples. And made China win each other's heritage. Watson refers to Watson, a kind of jewelry worn by ancient women, made of cut five-color silk.

Tanabata custom activities: Tianhe tears

In Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, it is popular to catch dew with a washbasin. Legend has it that the dew on Tanabata is the tears when cowherd and weaver girl meet. If you put it in your eyes and hands, it can make people agile.

Tanabata custom activities: wash your hair with tree sap and dye your nails with flowers.

Young girls in many areas like to wash their hair with the sap of trees during festivals. It is said that not only young and beautiful, but also unmarried women can find the right husband as soon as possible. Most people who dye their nails with flowers and plants are girls and children.

China Valentine's Day Custom Activities: Women's Yue Bai

In the culture of Xia people, most of the sacrifices to the moon god passed down from ancient times were on the first day of the month, that is, the seventeenth and twenty-seventh days. Some people think that the 15th day of the first month was held in the Han Dynasty, and it was also a minor revision of the 27th. 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. Yue Bai has a tradition since ancient times, especially Qixi and Mid-Autumn Festival. The story and legend of Deusim's sacrifice to the moon is probably the most touching picture.

Metaplasia seeking child

On Tanabata, people use wax to create various images, such as the characters in the story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, or the shapes of animals such as vultures and mandarin ducks, which float on the water, which is called floating on the water. One kind of wax doll is called metaplasia. It is auspicious for a woman to buy it home and float in the water and soil.

Tanabata custom activities: planting children to find children

In the old custom, a few days before Tanabata, first spread a layer of soil on a small wooden board, sow the seeds of millet, and let it give birth to green seedlings. Then put some small huts and flowers and trees on it, and make it look like a small village, called a shell board, or soak mung beans, adzuki beans and wheat in a magnetic bowl, and then tie them into a bundle with red and blue silk ropes. All parts of the south are also called bubble smart, and sprouted bean sprouts are called smart buds. Even the needles are replaced by smart buds and thrown on the water to beg for wisdom. Wax is also used to create various images, such as the characters in the story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, or the shapes of animals such as vultures and mandarin ducks, which float on the water, which is called floating on the water. There are also baby dolls made of wax for women to buy and float in the water and soil, which is called metaplasia.

China Valentine's Day Custom Activity: Tianhe Nighttalk

On the blue night of Tanabata, many girls will secretly hide under the lush pumpkin shed. It is said that if they can hear the whispers of Cowherd and Weaver Girl meeting in the dead of night, the girl to be married will get this eternal love in the future. In the era of open social atmosphere, there are also couples hiding under the melon shed and eavesdropping on Tianhe whispers.

China Valentine's Day custom: Worship the Weaver Girl.

Worship the weaver girl is purely a matter for girls and young women. Most of them make an appointment with five or six people, at most a dozen people, with friends or neighbors in advance to hold it together. The ceremony is to lay a table in the moonlight, and put tea, wine, fruit, five sons (longan, red dates, hazelnuts, peanuts, melon seeds) and other sacrifices on the table. There are also some flowers, tied with red paper, inserted in the bottle, with a small incense burner in front. Then, the young women and girls who make an appointment to attend the worship of the Weaver Maid will fast for one day, take a bath and come to their host's house on time. After burning incense in front of the case, everyone will sit around the table and meditate on their thoughts while eating peanuts and melon seeds. If a girl wants to be beautiful or marry a husband, and a young woman wants to have a baby early, she can silently pray to the Weaver Girl. Play until midnight. Should Tanabata travel far away in 2020?

Lunar calendar: July 7, 2020.

Gregorian calendar: August 25th, 2020, Tuesday, Virgo.

Today's almanac is appropriate.

Pray, get married, emigrate, go to Zhan Mu, make sacrifices, and find heirs.

Enter the house for money, break ground, drill and open the market.

Build houses on columns, collect money, and remove planting and livestock.

The entrance is specially made.

Today's old almanac is taboo.

The word litigation bed was built, buried and traveled.

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Since dating is suitable for the Gregorian calendar, Tanabata in 2020 is suitable for traveling!