What are the traditional customs of the Tanabata Festival

1, wearing a needle begging. During the day, take a pot of water in the sun, the sun out of a layer of white skin, end in so that the girls in it to put the needle, see everyone who poses the most beautiful needle, who is the coquettish girl. There is another kind of thread to thread a seven-hole needle, a thread through, the difficulty is there, it depends on whether your fingers are skillful, whether often embroidery, both the eyes, but also the hand does not tremble. There are also nine-tailed needles, if you go through you are the most handy girl. There are all sorts of forms of begging with just needles.

2, species of birth. The girl planted the birth of begging. Is to use a cardboard or wooden board to get an inch thick soil, the first day of July will be planted with green beans, small beans.

3, the cowherd will weaving. July is called the "blue moon", the night of July is called the blue night, the custom of this day is the cowherd will weave.

4. Boys beg for money, girls beg for money. There is a way of begging for coquettishness, the more it rains, the darker the sky, go to catch spiders, put in a small box, and every once in a while to see how the spider's web is knotted. The girl is begging for coquettishness and the boy is begging for literature.

5. Celebrate the birth of the cow. Children will pick wildflowers and hang them on the horns of cows on the eve of the seventh day of the seventh month, also known as "congratulations on the birthday of the cow"

6, worship of the Weaving Maiden. "Worshiping the Weaving Maiden" is purely a matter for young girls and young women. Most of them are in advance and their friends or neighbors about five or six people, as many as ten people, jointly organized.