The custom of Qixi, the custom of Qixi, Zhejiang?

Every year, the seventh day of the seventh lunar month is the traditional Valentine's Day in China, and there are colorful customs all over the country on the occasion of Tanabata. As far as Zhejiang Province is concerned, the customs of Tanabata in different cities and counties are different, so today, Lao Huangli will introduce the customs of Tanabata in various parts of Zhejiang, and then look at how Tanabata is celebrated in various parts of Zhejiang.

Hangzhou: In the Qixi competition, there is a thousand-year-old temple in Qiaokanshan Town-Dizang Temple. On the night of Tanabata, the local people spontaneously came to the Dizang King Temple to be good, praying for a bumper harvest of grain and the prosperity of six livestock. Another connotation of Kanshan people celebrating Tanabata is the culture of "Tanabata Qiao".

Every household worships the stars-there is a clever pole hung with lace in the yard, and delicate lace is also placed on the table of the Eight Immortals. In the middle of the table are seasonal fruits-lotus root, sweet persimmon, pomegranate, water chestnut and a bowl of water. After begging for cleverness, it is the girls' "competition for cleverness" activity. It's interesting that girls and young women compete on the spot by threading needles and weaving lace.

Jinhua: Killing cocks is in Jinhua, Zhejiang. Every family will kill a rooster on the seventh day of July. It means that the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl meet on this night, and if there is no rooster to announce the dawn, they will never be separated.

On Tanabata, peasant girls will take Vitex negundo and Sapium sebiferum leaves to make their hair black and shiny, as beautiful as a fairy; On the night of July 7th, women in the family set up incense tables in the courtyard, displayed fruits and cakes, and worshipped the seven fairies from a distance, begging for their skills. Girls will lie quietly under the grape trellis or buttonwood tree, listening to the cowherd and weaver girl whispering; Girls will also paint their nails with henna, which is elegant and eye-catching.

Quzhou: Wash your body. Every year on Tanabata, villagers in Guanxi Village, Jiuhua Township, Kecheng District will beat gongs and drums, set off firecrackers to carry Buddha and hold lively celebrations. On that day, in order to purify themselves, the villagers all washed themselves with water, which means: eliminate disasters, bless the old Buddha, and everything is safe. The July 7th Folk Temple Fair in Kansai Village began in the Ming Dynasty, and this folk custom lasted for hundreds of years. At this time, the surrounding villagers also came to Kansai Village to participate in folk activities.

Shaoxing: Listening to Whispers Under the pumpkin shed in rural Shaoxing, on Tanabata, in the dead of night, many girls will quietly hide in the dark and eavesdrop on the whispers when the cowherd and the weaver girl meet at the Magpie Bridge, commonly known as "listening to the sky". It is said that any woman who hears the whispers when they meet will surely get loyal love for thousands of years in the future.

Ningbo: Every Tanabata, there are folk customs in Ningbo, such as women worshiping the weaver girl, begging for cleverness, threading needles on the moon, washing their hair with hibiscus leaves, listening to whispers, printing fruits, etc., which are recorded in various local chronicles in Ningbo. Ming Jiajing's "Zhenhai County Records": "Tanabata women comb with hibiscus leaf juice (warm water) soup, and the courtyard is ripe."

Wenzhou: Every Tanabata, Wenzhou folk women will display all kinds of melons and cakes in the courtyard, facing the sky and begging for wisdom and cleverness from the weaver girl, which is called "begging for cleverness". This custom has been abolished. There is also a folk custom of eating "smart dishes" on Tanabata. "Qiaoshi" is made of rice flour mixed with brown sugar dipped in sesame seeds, with tongue-shaped and finger-shaped. People throw "smart food" on the back of tiles at night to reward magpies for building bridges and hope to bring more good news to the world.

In Qixi and Wenzhou, people have the custom of eating Maqiao and red bean cakes. Grandparents will give their own "smart dishes" to their grandchildren, and make them into finger shapes specially, wishing their children a pair of skillful hands when they grow up. In the past, Wenzhou people born on this day were also named after Joe, for example, a boy named Aqiao He and a girl named He.

Jiaxing: Qixi Bridge will be held in Jiaxing. Every year, people come to Qixi Bridge to build a bridge about four or five meters long and half a meter wide with all kinds of thick wrapped incense, and tie flowers made of five-color lines on the railing. In the evening, after people sacrificed to the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, they burned Xiangqiao, symbolizing that they had crossed Xiangqiao and welcomed them.

Jiashan rural families use watermelons to offer sacrifices to the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, and use washbasins to receive dew, which means that dew is the tears of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl. Wiping eyes and hands can make people's eyes clear and ingenious. Tongxiang Puyuan has the custom of inviting machine gods on Tanabata. During the period of the Republic of China, Jiaxing had a nursery rhyme: "Seven stars and seven stars, shoulder pole stars, read it skillfully for seven times before you are smart." The sacrifices in the evening are mainly watermelon, lotus root and water chestnut.

Taizhou: Shitang Little People Festival is located in Shitang and Ruoshan, Shitang Town, Wenling. Valentine's Day in China is called "Shitang Little People's Day". On Tanabata, the elders prayed for children under 16 years old.

More than 300 years ago, residents from Shitang and Ruoshan moved in from Fujian, bringing the custom of offering dolls to Chinese Valentine's Day, which was popular in southern Fujian at that time, to this area. As a sub-project of Tanabata, it has been listed as a national intangible cultural heritage.

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