What kind of festival is Beggar's Day?

The Beggar's Day is the Tanabata Festival.

The Double Seventh Festival, also known as the Seven Coincidences Festival, the Seven Sisters Festival, the Daughters' Festival, the Beggar's Day, etc.) is a traditional Chinese folk festival, derived from the worship of the stars and hosts for the traditional meaning of the Seven Sisters Festival, for worshipping the Seven Sisters, held on the evening of July 7th, hence the name "Tanabata". The festival is traditionally held on the evening of July 7, so it is called "Tanabata".

Begging for coincidence festival is a girl to the Weaving Maiden begging for a pair of skillful hands, praying for their own growth beautiful, a pair of skillful hands, married to a husband as desired, which is the daughter's good wishes. Every year on the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar is the traditional festival of the Han Chinese people in China, the Begging for a Fair Harmony Festival. Because the main participants in this day is a young girl, and the content of the festival is to beg for coincidence, so people call this day "Begging for coincidence" or "Tanabata Festival" "Daughter's Day".

The Beggar's Nest began in ancient times, popularized in the Western Han Dynasty, and flourished in the Song Dynasty, and was endowed with the beautiful love legend of "Cowherd and Weaving Maiden", which says that the Weaving Maiden is a goddess of spinning and weaving born on the seventh day of the seventh month and is skillful in handwork and kind-hearted. Therefore, many women want to follow the example of the Weaving Maiden, so every time the seventh sister birthday, they will offer sacrifices to the seventh sister, praying for their own dexterity, and get a beautiful marriage. This is the origin of the name "Begging for a Good Handicraft".

Begging Qiao Festival festival customs:

1, Xiangqiao will

In Yixing, Jiangsu Province, there is a Tanabata Xiangqiao will custom. Every year on the eve of the seventh, people rushed to participate in, build incense bridge. The so-called incense bridge, is with a variety of thick and long wrapped head incense (paper wrapped wire incense) built four or five meters long, about half a meter wide bridge, fitted with railings, in the railings tied to the five-color line made of flower decorations. At night, people offer sacrifices to the two stars and pray for good fortune, and then the incense bridge is incinerated, symbolizing that the two stars have walked across the incense bridge to meet each other joyfully.

2, catching dew

Zhejiang rural areas, the popular custom of catching dew with a basin. Legend has it that the dew at the time of the Tanabata Festival is the tears of the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden at the time of their meeting, and if it is smeared on the eyes and hands, it can make one's eyes and hands bright and quick.

3, Tanabata Begging

The Tanabata Begging, determining the coincidence of the beggar "divination" method, mainly "through the needle begging" "happy spider should be coincidental" The main methods of determining the trickster's skill are "threading a needle to beg for a trick", "answering a trick with a spider", "threading a needle to the moon", "fighting for a trick on the night of the orchid", and "casting a needle to check for a trick".

The above content refers to Baidu Encyclopedia - Begging for Coincidence