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Tradition of Tanabata: Xiang Qiao meets, catching dew, threading a needle is clever, threading a needle for the moon is clever, and liking spiders is clever.

1, Xiangqiao Club

In Yixing, Jiangsu Province, there is the custom of the Qixi Xiangqiao Festival. Every year on Tanabata, someone will participate and build a fragrant bridge. The so-called incense bridge is a bridge with a length of four or five meters and a width of about half a meter, which is made of all kinds of thick and long incense-wrapped paper. It is equipped with railings and decorated with flowers made of five-color lines.

At night, people offered sacrifices to the binary star, prayed for good luck, and then burned the incense bridge, symbolizing that the binary star had crossed the incense bridge and met happily. This fragrant bridge originated from the legendary magpie bridge legend.

Step 2 contact dew

In rural areas of Zhejiang, it is popular to use washbasins to receive dew. Legend has it that the dew on Tanabata is the tears when cowherd and weaver girl meet. If you put it in your eyes and hands, it can make people agile.

3. needlework

Needle-piercing is also called "competition cleverness", which means that women wear needles in competitions. They tie colored thread and thread a seven-hole needle. The faster they dress, the more they beg for wisdom. Dressing slowly is called "carelessness". People who lose their cleverness should give gifts prepared in advance to smart people. "Miscellanies of Xijing" said: "Women in the Han Dynasty often wear seven-hole needles in Jinkai Building on July 7, and people have the ambition of Xi."

4. Needle the Moon

"threading a needle on the moon" means that every family cleans the courtyard on the night of the seventh day of July. Young women and girls must first bow down to Vega and pray for her to bless their intelligence. Then, they took out colorful silk threads and seven silver needles prepared in advance and put them on the moon. Whoever puts on seven stitches first indicates that she will become a skilled woman in the future.

5. Spiders should be smart

Spider imitation is also an early way of seeking cleverness, and its popularity is a little later than needle piercing, probably starting in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. Liang Zonggu of the Southern Dynasties said "A Record of Jingchu Times"; "In the evening, Chen Guaguo begged for cleverness in court. If you have a happy subnet on melon, you think it is corresponding. "