What is the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar festival, what are the folk activities

The seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar is the Tanabata Festival, and there are folk activities such as worshipping the cowherd, dyeing nails and listening to whispers.

1, worship the cowherd

According to the Ming and Qing Dynasties and the Republic of China period of some books, the Guangzhou girl in the Tanabata in the display of the art of craftsmanship, there is a grain of grain-sized embroidered shoes, the size of the fingernail fan, there are exquisite and frivolous small net, and special lotus, jasmine, roses, nightshade and so on, the pot is only the size of the sprinkling cup, the pot depicts two flowers, a real one, people are difficult to distinguish between the two. It was difficult to distinguish between the two. To the seventh night, continue to worship God as last night, known as "worship cowherd", generally by the boy officiating.

2, dyeing nails

Dyeing nails is circulating in southwest China around the Tanabata custom. Many areas of young girls, like to wash their hair with the sap of the tree during the festival, not only can young and beautiful, but also for the unmarried women, you can find the man of your choice as soon as possible. Dyeing nails with flowers and plants is also a hobby of most women and children in the festival entertainment, but also closely related to fertility beliefs.

3, listen to whispers

Some rural villages in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, the eve of the night there will be many young girls, secretly hiding in the growth of lush pumpkin sheds, to be late at night if you can hear the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden will meet the whispers of the maiden to be married to a thousand years of undying love.