What is the custom of Qiaojie Begging for Food Festival?

Custom of Begging for Cleverness Festival: eating suitable fruits, seeking cleverness with needles, measuring cleverness with needles, liking spiders' cleverness, drying books and clothes, worshiping weaver girls, worshiping kuixing and Xiangqiao Society, etc.

1, eat fruit properly

Appropriate fruit on Tanabata is a traditional festival diet custom. Legend has it that in the past, girls wanted to be smart and skillful before they got married, so they prayed to the Weaver Girl to give them a pair of skillful hands in this way, hoping that the Weaver Girl could also give them a pair of skillful hands, so proper fruits were born.

2. worship kuixing

People believe that the seventh day of the seventh lunar month is Kuixing's birthday. If a scholar asks for fame, career success and fame, he will certainly worship Kuixing on the seventh day and pray for his protection.

3. needlework

Needle-piercing is the original method of begging for cleverness, which originated in the Han Dynasty and spread to later generations. In the Han Dynasty, on the night of Qixi, it was a custom for ladies to get together and thread the needle, including this theme activity in the palace every year.

Needle injection is very skillful.

China has the custom of throwing needles to test the dexterity, which is held on the seventh day of July every year. It is a variation of needlework custom in China on Valentine's Day, which originated from needlework and is different from needlework. It is a popular custom of Valentine's Day in China in Ming and Qing Dynasties, which shows the wisdom and life wishes of working people in ancient China.

5. Worship Weaver Girl

Worship the weaver girl is a custom of Han nationality 18 years old. In the folklore of the Han nationality, the weaver girl is a beautiful, intelligent and ingenious fairy. Therefore, the seventh day of July entrusted the working people with their yearning for a happy life and simple aesthetic taste, and entrusted them with the sacrifice to the weaver girl, the hope for skillful art and the hope for a happy marriage.