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

The customs and traditions of Valentine's Day in China include begging for wisdom, worshipping kuixing, celebrating Niu Qingsheng's birthday, holding young crops parties and listening to whispers at night.

1, for ingenuity

On Valentine's Day in China, women play games such as threading a needle on the moon and beg for wisdom from the Weaver Girl, which is called "begging for wisdom". A woman with five-color silk thread and nine-hole needles (or five-hole needles or seven-hole needles) in her hand keeps threading the needle to the moon in the moonlight, which is called "cleverness".

2. worship kuixing

According to folklore, July 7th is Kuixing's birthday, and people say that Kuixing is in charge of literature. Scholars who want to achieve fame will worship Kuixing on this day and pray for him to bless their success in the exam.

3. For Niu Qingsheng

Children will pick wild flowers and hang them on horns on Qixi Day, which is also called "Happy Birthday to Cows". Because it is said that after the Queen Mother of the West separated the Cowherd from the Weaver Girl by Tianhe, the old cow asked the Cowherd to scrape off its skin and drive its cowhide to see the Weaver Girl. In order to commemorate the sacrifice spirit of the old cow, people have the custom of "celebrating the life of the cow".

4. Hold a meeting of young crops

During the Qixi Festival, it is said that in some places in Urumqi, a 10-day "seedling conference" is held every year. "Young crops meeting" is a prayer activity held by simple and kind farmers, hoping that the weather will be good and the crops will be plentiful.

Step 5 listen to whispers at night

Legend has it that every year until the night of July 7, many girls will secretly hide under the grape trellis or in the melon shed, quietly listening to the whispers of the cowherd and the weaver girl. Any girl who can hear the whispers of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl will win loyal and pure love in the future.