What are the customs of Valentine's Day in China and what are the characteristics of Valentine's Day in China?

What are the customs of Valentine's Day in China?

1. Worship the Weaver Girl: In ancient times, there was a custom of worshipping the Weaver Girl on Tanabata. Young women will sit around the table and meditate on their thoughts and wishes for Vega.

2. Needle threading: Valentine's Day in China is also called Jojo Day. In ancient times, women on Valentine's Day in China often pointed to the moon through a nine-hole needle with five-color lines. If they pass, it means that they have good skills and can marry a good husband.

3. Be smart when you love spiders: In Chinese Valentine's Day, China, there is a custom of being smart when you love spiders, which is to catch a spider on Tanabata Day and put it in a small box, and open the box the next morning. If the spider web is thin, it means a handy girl.

What are the customs and characteristics of Valentine's Day in China?

Begging festival

Begging for cleverness is a popular custom on Seven Sisters's birthday (Chinese Valentine's Day), and it is a variety of begging activities carried out by girls on the night of the seventh day of July. The seventh day of July is the birthday of Qi Mei in the traditional sense. Because the sacrificial ceremony was held on the evening of July 7th, it was named Tanabata.

On this night, facing the bright moon in the sky, the girls displayed appropriate fruits (fried pasta), lotus, white lotus root, Hong Ling and so on. And worship in the sky, begging the goddess in the sky to give them intelligent hearts and dexterous hands, let them master their needlework skills, and even beg for a marriage of love and marriage. If you dress well, it's called "wearing it right". Or catch a spider and put it in a box. If it is already woven, open the box the next day.

Bai kuixing

According to legend, July 7th is Kuixing's birthday, and Kuixing is the first star of the Big Dipper, which is called "Kuixing Zhuwen" by the people.

The ceremony of "worshipping Kuixing" was also held in the moonlight. In eastern Fujian, on the night of Chinese Valentine's Day, two incense tables, "Worship the Weaver Maid" and "Worship the Kuixing Star", are often put on the patio. The ladies get together and are divided into two small worlds with different faces, which is very lively and interesting.

Those who take part in Kuixing's sacrifice will be held in candlelight and moonlight, set off firecrackers and burn incense to worship, and then have dinner at the table in front of the incense table.

During the dinner, we will play a game of "seeking fame", using longan, hazelnut and peanut to represent the champion, the second place and the flower-exploring tripod respectively. A person holds one of the three kinds of dried fruits in one hand, throws them on the table and rolls them together. Some dried fruits roll until someone stops, and then someone is the champion, the second place or the flower exploration; If the fallen dried fruit rolls in all directions, then everyone has no "fame" and needs to vote again. This is called "retaking the exam"; All hits are called "three and"; Two of them are in the wrong direction-for example, longan and hazelnut have both been missed, and only peanuts come to someone, and someone is "exploring flowers". Such a one-vote and one-drink tour is called "a subject" and "a flower exploration in this subject". Let's drink to "exploring flowers". Those who propose a toast to the "failed candidates" continue to "seek names" under "one subject", and those who have "names" do not participate.

Just eat and play until everyone has a "fame". After the play was over, the paper cymbals were fired, and the image of Kuixing was burned together with the paper cymbals.

Nail painting

Nail dyeing is the custom of Qixi Festival, which is popular in southwest China. "The Records of Yanting County, Mianyang, Sichuan" wrote: "July 7th is the Beggar's Day. Children dye their nails with impatiens. "

In the morning, with the love of beauty, young girls found alum, took off petals, crushed alum, and stuck it on the nails of hands and feet with petals. After a certain period of time, nails are rosy, bright and natural, and it is said that they will not fade for several months.

Goodbye "Seven Mothers"

In Minnan area of Taiwan Province Province, people come to Qiniangma Temple in groups of three or five every year to offer flowers, fruits, powder and sacrifices.

On this day, there is also a popular "rite of passage" in Taiwan Province Province, that is, when a child reaches the age of 15, his parents lead him to the Seven Mothers Temple to reward him for protecting his child through childhood, childhood and adolescence. On this day, Tainan will hold an adult ceremony for children aged 16 "turning sixteen". Some parents, in addition to paying homage to the "Seven Mothers" on Tanabata, specially invited relatives and friends to celebrate their children's adult ceremony.

Although the folk Tanabata in Fujian and Taiwan is not very skillful, it attaches great importance to the custom of health food. On the occasion of Tanabata, almost every household will buy Chinese medicine gentlemen and pomegranates.

China Valentine's Day takes the folklore of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl as the carrier, expressing the feelings of married men and women who never give up and grow old together, and abiding by their commitment to love. With the development of time, Qixi became the Valentine's Day in China. And the local cultural customs also make this festival colorful.