How do you spend Tanabata? (traditional customs)

The custom of ancient Valentine's Day in China;

1, asking questions through needles: This is the earliest way to ask questions, which began in the Han Dynasty and spread to later generations. On Valentine's Day in China, ladies-in-waiting went on stage to wear Kyubi no Youko needles with colorful silk. Those who finish first are smart, and those who finish later are called unintelligent.

2, spiders should be clever: its custom is a little later than threading needles, roughly starting from the Northern and Southern Dynasties. There are different ways to test ingenuity in past dynasties, including the existence of visual networks in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the fineness of visual networks in the Tang Dynasty and the roundness of visual networks in the Song Dynasty.

3. Needle-throwing skill: This is a variant of the custom of needle-piercing on Qixi, which is different from needle-piercing. This is a popular Valentine's Day custom in China during the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

4. Seed the children: It is an ancient custom to soak mung beans, adzuki beans and wheat in a magnetic bowl a few days before Tanabata, and then tie them into a bundle with red and blue silk threads, which is called "seed".

5. Worship the Weaver Girl: This is a matter for girls and young women. Most of them make an appointment with five or six people or as many as ten people in advance with their friends or neighbors. Girls who want to be beautiful or marry a husband, young women who want to have children early, etc. You can pray silently to the Weaver Girl and play until midnight.