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

The customs of Valentine's Day in China include worshipping the weaver girl, playing tricks at night, celebrating the birthday of the seventh sister, giving birth to children and washing women's hair.

1, worship the weaver girl. "Worship the Weaver Girl" is purely a matter for girls and young women. Most of them make an appointment with five or six people, at most a dozen people, with friends or neighbors in advance to hold it together. The ceremony is to lay a table in the moonlight, and put tea, wine, fruit, five sons (longan, red dates, hazelnuts, peanuts, melon seeds) and other sacrifices on the table.

2, blue night playing skillfully. This custom originated from games in the court of the Han Dynasty. Jia, the maid-in-waiting of Mrs. Qi, the wife of Emperor Gaozu, often talked about Chinese Valentine's Day in the Han Palace after she left the palace to marry Duan Ru, a man who helped the wind. She said: "On July 7th every year, the Han Palace plays the ancient philosophers first, and then the five colors are tied, which is called" mutual affection ".

3. Seventh sister's birthday. In Guangzhou, married women are generally not allowed to attend Chinese Valentine's Day, but the newly-married bride will hold a "farewell ceremony" in the first Chinese Valentine's Day. That is, on the sixth night, when offering sacrifices to God, there were red eggs, sour ginger and so on. (Take the omen to get the child), and add Sydney or sand pears to express the intention of leaving the Daughter's Day.

4. Species are seeking children. In the old custom, a few days before Tanabata, first spread a layer of soil on a small wooden board, sow the seeds of millet, let it give birth to green seedlings, and then put some small huts and flowers and trees on it to make it look like a small village where people live in heaven, called "shell board", or soak mung beans and red beans in a magnetic bowl and tie them into a bunch with red and blue silk threads.

5, female shampoo. It is believed that taking spring water and river water on Tanabata Day is as sacred as taking water from the Milky Way. Some places directly call it "the holy water of Tiansun (Weaver Girl)". Therefore, it is of special significance for women to wash their hair on this day, which means that with the holy water of the Milky Way, they will be protected by the goddess Vega.

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Valentine's Day in China is not only a festival to worship Seven Sisters, but also a festival of love. It is a comprehensive festival with the folk custom of "Cowherd and Weaver Girl" as the carrier, with the theme of blessing, begging and courtship, and women as the main body.

The "Cowherd and Weaver Girl" on Tanabata originated from people's worship of natural phenomena. In ancient times, planetariums were associated with geographical areas. This correspondence is called "dividing stars" in astronomy and "dividing fields" in geography. According to legend, on the seventh day of July every year, the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl will meet at the Magpie Bridge in the sky.

People's Network-Qixi Folk Custom