Nursery Rhymes About Tanabata

1.

In the starry water, in the blue sky, the starry river shines golden everywhere.

The cowherd leads the ox to the fire, the weaver washes his clothes.

It is a pity that the starry river is not on fire.

My house is in front of a river of pure water, and the river fire runs to the source day and night.

Compete with me to set up and finish the channel to the sky, and welcome the water to the blue sky.

The cowherd and the weaving maiden crowed, and the red flower was picked under you.

2.

Begging for the hand, begging for the face; begging for the heart, begging for the face.

Begg my father and mother for a thousand years; beg my sisters for ten million years.

3.

The sky is the limit, the earth is the limit, I invite my seven sisters to go to heaven.

Not your needles, not your threads,

Optics of your seventy-two good means.

4.

Coincidental buds, born strange. Pots and pots are born, and the hands are covered.　

Picked on the seventh day of the seventh month, my sister and brother took a picture of it.

Like a flower, like a vegetable, let's see who is quicker.

Expanded Information:

1, Xiangqiaohui

In Yixing, Jiangsu Province, there is a seventh anniversary The custom of Xiangqiao will be. Every year on the eve of the seventh, people rushed to participate in, build incense bridge. The so-called incense bridge, is with a variety of thick and long wrapped head incense (paper wrapped wire incense) built four or five meters long, about half a meter wide bridge, fitted with railings, in the railings tied to the five-color line made of flower decorations.

At night, people offer sacrifices to the two stars, beg for good fortune, and then incinerate the incense bridge, symbolizing that the two stars have walked across the incense bridge to meet each other joyfully. This incense bridge is derived from the legendary Magpie Bridge legend.

2, catching dew

Zhejiang rural areas, the popular custom of catching dew with a basin. Legend has it that the dew at the time of the Tanabata Festival is the tears of the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden when they meet, and if it is smeared on the eyes and hands, it can make one's eyes and hands bright and quick.

3, worship seven sisters

July 7 of the seven women will be, Guangdong more called "worship seven sisters", before the founding of new China, "Tanabata" is a grand festival for women. In the old days, women to the seven sisters "begging", begging her to teach the craft of dexterity, in fact, the so-called "begging" is just "fighting". In the old days of Guangdong, the Qixiao Festival was a very lively event.

4, fight

The Tanabata Festival fight, determine the fight of the trickster trickery "divination" method, mainly "through the needle to beg for trickery", "happy spider should be tricky",

There are several forms of divination, such as "threading a needle to beg for coquettishness", "wearing a needle to the moon", "losing coquettishness", "fighting coquettishness on the night of the orchid", and "casting a needle to check coquettishness", and so on.

5, welcome fairy

Guangzhou, Guangdong begging festival unique features, before the arrival of the festival, the girls are prepared in advance with colorful paper, grass, string, etc., compiled into a variety of strange small playthings, but also will be put into a small box of cereal seeds and mung beans soaked in water, so that germination, to be sprouted to more than two inches long buds, used to worship the gods, known as the "worship of the immortal Harvest! "

From the first day of the month, the Chinese government will take the first step in the process of the development of the country's economy.

From the sixth night to the seventh night, two nights in a row, the girls put on new clothes, wear new jewelry, everything is arranged, then burning incense and candles, kneeling to the starry sky, known as the "welcome to the immortal", from the third night to the fifth night, to be worshipped seven times.

6, swim seven sister water

Folk legend has it that seven fairies in the sky will come down to the river to bathe in the river, the river at this time because of the dipping of the fairy gas, people wash not only bring peach blossom luck, but also can prevent diseases. In Guangxi Baise, Jingxi and other folk believe that the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, the water is very holy and clean, the water of Tanabata can not only drive away evil spirits to avoid disease, but also to make their love, happy life.

7, seed life for children

Old custom, a few days before the Tanabata, first in a small wooden board on a layer of soil, sowing corn seeds, so that it gives birth to green shoots. Or green beans, small beans, wheat, etc., immersed in a magnetic bowl, and so it grows out of the buds, and then tied into a bundle of red and blue silk rope, known as the "seed of life", in order to seek children.

Southern places are also known as "bubble Qiao", will grow out of the bean sprouts called Qiao buds, and even Qiao buds instead of needles, thrown in the water begging. Also waxed various images, such as the cowherd, the characters in the story of the Weaving Maiden, or bald eagles, mandarin ducks, and other animal forms, placed on the water to float, called the "water floating". There are also wax baby dolls, so that women buy home floating in the water and soil, and thought it was good luck, known as "Husheng".

8, storage Tanabata water

"Tanabata water" is also known as "July 7 water", "Tanabata water" is said to have magical properties, long storage does not change, can treat It can cure burns and remove sores and poisons. The custom of storing "Tanabata water" around Guangdong is that after the first rooster crows on the morning of the seventh day of the seventh month, families go to wells or riverside to draw water for storage.

In some places in Guangxi, there is the custom of storing water on the eve of the seventh day of the seventh month in the morning, folklore, the fairies will come down to take a bath, and the bath water can be used to avoid evil spirits, cure illnesses and prolong life; therefore, people in the eve of the day in the morning to go to the riverside to get the water, fetch back to the new urn to hold up to be used in the future.