What does it mean to wear a needle on the moon during the Qiqiao Festival?

The meaning of threading needles on the moon during the Qiqiao Festival is as follows: threading needles on the moon is an important custom of my country’s traditional Qixi festival.

On the night of Chinese Valentine's Day, girls hold colorful threads and thread needles and threads continuously towards the moon. Those who pass all the threads quickly are called "deqiao".

1. Qiqiao Festival Qixi Festival (Qiqiao Festival) is also known as "Daughter's Day", "Women's Day" and "Ancient Women's Day".

This traditional festival popular in Xihe County, Gansu Province is one of the national intangible cultural heritages.

The Qixi Festival folk custom of begging for tricks in Xihe County, Gansu Province appeared in the Han Dynasty. After development in the Tang and Song Dynasties, it reached its peak in the Ming and Qing Dynasties and has a history of more than a thousand years.

Xihe's folk activities of begging for cleverness are rich in content and diverse in form. It starts on the evening of the 30th day of the sixth lunar month (the small month is the 29th) and ends on the evening of the seventh day of the seventh lunar month. It lasts for seven days and eight nights. The entire activity is divided into sitting and praying.

There are seven links: welcoming Qiao, offering sacrifices to Qiao, worshiping Qiao, entertaining Qiao, divining Qiao and sending Qiao away.

2. Historical origins The Qixi Festival (Qixi Festival) originated in the Han Dynasty. Ge Hong's "Xijing Miscellaneous Notes" of the Eastern Jin Dynasty recorded that "Han colorful girls often pierce seven-hole needles in Kaijinlou on July 7th, and everyone practices it."

The Qixi Festival (Qixi Festival) in Xihe County, Gansu Province is related to a story about Altair and Vega.

That night, when people look at the Milky Way, the old man will point out that on the west bank of the Milky Way, there are three stars, one big, two small, and three.

That's Altair.

He was carrying the burden and was looking at the Vega star on the other side of the river.

Legend has it that the Weaver Girl is the granddaughter of the Emperor of Heaven. She weaves brocades with cloud patterns and heavenly clothes for immortals in the Heavenly Palace.

Later, she secretly came to the mortal world, fell in love with the Cowherd, and gave birth to two children.

When the Emperor of Heaven found out, he was furious and sent the gods to take his granddaughter back to Heaven.

The old cow asked the Cowherd to peel off his own skin and fly up to the sky to pursue the Weaver Girl.

3. Threading the needle against the moon This is a skillful way of begging for needles.

It began in the Han Dynasty and spread to later generations.

Liu Zun, a poet from the Liang Dynasty in the Southern Dynasties, wrote a poem on the Chinese Valentine's Day: "If you step on the moon as you wish, you can't help but feel love."

Pull a strand toward the light, raise your sleeves and use two needles.

Threading the needle against the moon means that on the evening of the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, every household will clean their courtyards. Young women and girls will first kneel down to the Vega and beg her to bless their ingenuity; then, they will put the colorful silk threads prepared in advance and the

Take out seven silver needles and thread them against the moon. Whoever threads the seven needles first will predict that she will become a skillful woman in the future.

It is not easy to thread a needle on the moon: even if the Qixi moon shines brightly, it is still the light of a crescent moon, which cannot shine brightly, and there are sometimes slight clouds floating in the moon. Furthermore, the needle that is threaded is called the Qizi needle, which is a special kind.

A flat seven-hole needle, that is, there are seven pinholes at the end of the needle.