Tanabata is a traditional Chinese festival, what are the general customs.

Folklore experts say that the Tanabata Festival, also known as the "Daughter's Day", is the women's day of the traditional Chinese festivals. The most common custom of the Tanabata Festival is for women to engage in various begging activities on the night of the seventh day of the seventh month. Tanabata begging, originated in the Han Dynasty, the Eastern Jin Dynasty Ge Hong's "Xijing Miscellany" has "Han color women often to the seventh day of the seventh month to wear seven-hole needle in the lapel jacket, the people are practicing" record, this is the earliest ancient literature on the begging of the record.

Besides begging for coquettish objects, there is also the custom of moon worship in folklore on the eve of the seventh moon. On the night of this romantic festival, girls look up at the bright moon in the sky, set out seasonal fruits and melons, and pay homage to the sky. In addition to begging for skillfulness in knitting women's red, it is also to beg for a skillful match in marriage. In the past, marriage is a lifelong decision of the girl's life happiness, so the world of love girls will be in the evening of Tanabata, while the night is quiet, praying to the starry sky for their own marital bliss, and to this day, I hope that they can have a perfect marriage, is still the dream of the girls.

In ancient times, Tanabata night, worship the moon before the first bath, bath after changing into dress, a few sisters gathered outdoors, set up a small case, on the set of simple seasonal fruits, burning incense curls, light shirt flying, quietly to the moon to talk about their wishes.

Folklore experts said that until today, Tanabata is still a romantic traditional festival in China, especially for young people, but unfortunately many customary activities have been weakened or disappeared, only the symbol of fidelity to the love of the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden of the legend and the folktale is widely circulated. Tanabata night, the public may wish to try these customs, not for the occasion, just to feel the charm of this traditional festival.