What will traditional Chinese Valentine's Day do? How should I live?

Traditional Chinese Valentine's Day should do the following things. After passing through Chinese Valentine's Day, you can spend time with your family and objects, and do the following things together:

Needle-piercing begging for cleverness

This is the earliest way of begging for cleverness, which began in Han Dynasty and flowed to later generations. "Miscellaneous Notes on Xijing" said: "Women in the Han Dynasty often wear seven-hole needles in the Kaijin Building on July 7, and people have Xi Zhi." The Chronicle of Jingchu Years Old by Liang Zongmou of the Southern Dynasties said: "On July 7th, it was the women of the evening family who tied the colored floor through seven holes, or used gold and silver as needles."

The Geographical Records says: "The Emperor Wu of Qi started to look at the city from different levels, and on July 7th, the imperial court officials made many attempts to put needles in it. The world calls it a needle-piercing building. " Wang Renyu's "The Legacy of Kaiyuan Tianbao" in the Five Dynasties said: "On Tanabata, the palace was built with brocade, which was hundreds of feet high, and it could beat dozens of people in the world. Chen roasted melons and fruits with wine, set up seats, worshipped cows and women with two stars, and his concubines each wore nine-hole needles and five-color lines to the moon. It was a good time to pass. Move the song of Qing merchants, and have fun. The home of the natives is effective. "

Spider-loving should be clever

This is also an earlier way of begging for cleverness, and its popularity is a little later than that of needling for cleverness, which probably started in the Northern and Southern Dynasties. In the Southern Dynasties, Liang Zonggu said, "A Record of the Age of Jingchu"; "It's evening, Chen melon and fruit in court to beg for cleverness. If you have a happy subnet on the melon, you think it corresponds. "

Spider-loving should be clever with the Five Dynasties Wang Renyu's "The Legacy of Kaiyuan Tianbao": "On July 7th, each spider was caught in a small box until dawn; Think of cobwebs as sparse and dense. A secret person has many clever words, but a rare person has few clever words. Folk works, too. "The Dream of China in Tokyo, written by Meng Yuan-yuan in the Song Dynasty, said that on the seventh day of July," put a spider in the zygote, and look at it the next day. If the net is round, it is just a coincidence. "

Song Zhoumi's "Notes on the Years of Ganchun" said; "How long does it take to store small spiders in the house and wait for the density of the web?" Tomita Rucheng's "Pleasure of Xi Chao" said that on Tanabata, "It is very clever to hold spiders in a small box and watch the density of their web the next morning." From this, it can be seen that the methods of testing ingenuity are different in the past dynasties. The existence of the visual network in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the thinness of the visual network in the Tang Dynasty, the roundness of the visual network in the Song Dynasty, and later generations follow the customs of the Tang Dynasty.

Needle-throwing and skill-testing

This is a variant of the custom of needle-piercing and skill-seeking on Qixi, which originated from needle-piercing and was different from needle-piercing, and it was a popular Chinese Valentine's Day custom in Ming and Qing Dynasties. Liu Dong and Yu Yizheng's "A Brief Introduction to the Scenery of the Imperial Capital" in the Ming Dynasty said: "On the afternoon of July 7th, we lost a clever needle. When women are exposed to the water, the water film looks unfamiliar, while the embroidery needle floats and looks at the shadow of the underwater needle. Those who have clouds, flowers, birds and animals, shoes and scissors, and eggplant shadows are called clever begging; Its shadow is as thick as a hammer, as thin as silk, and as straight as axis wax, which is a mistake. "

The Records of Zhili also said that in Liangxiang County (now southwest of Beijing), "On July 7th, women begged for cleverness, throwing needles into the water, using the shadow of the sun to check their handiwork, and they were still begging for cleverness at the weaver girl at night". Please ask Yu Minzhong to quote Miscellaneous Notes of Wan Department from "An Examination of Old News in the Sunset" and say: "On July 7th, Yan Dou women threw small needles in the rain with bowls of water. Or scattered like a flower, moving like a cloud, as thin as a line, as thick as a cone, because of the ingenuity of divining women. "

Lan Ye Dou Qiao

originated from the game in the court of the Han Dynasty. Jia Peilan, the maid-in-waiting of Mrs. Qi, the beloved princess of the Emperor Gaozu, often talked to people about the Qixi Festival in the Han Palace after leaving the palace to marry Duan Ru, a man who helped the wind. She said: "On the 7th of July every year, the Han Palace is first played in Chi Pan, the ancient philosophers, and then it is tied with five colors, which is called" mutual affection ".

Later, the palace ladies and girls went to the closed-top building together, and everyone learned to wear the seven clever needles to beg for cleverness. And there is a maid-in-waiting named Xu Jieyu, who can carve the raw lotus root into various exotic flowers and birds and present them to the emperor. The emperor will put these gadgets on the corner of the table in the palace at night for the maids to look for in the dark. This game is called' Dou Qiao'. "

It was an old custom to spread a layer of soil on a small wooden board a few days before Tanabata, sow the seeds of millet, let it grow green seedlings, and then put some small huts and flowers on it to make it look like a small village in Tiansheren, called a "shell board", or soak mung beans, adzuki beans and wheat in a magnetic bowl until it grows.

The southern areas are also called "bubble cleverness". The sprouted bean sprouts are called clever buds, and even clever buds are used to replace needles and thrown on the water to beg for cleverness. Wax is also used to mold various images, such as the characters in the stories of Cowherd and Weaver Girl, or the shapes of vultures, mandarin ducks and other animals, and float on the water, which is called "floating on the water". There are also baby dolls made of wax, which women can buy home and float in the water and soil, so as to be auspicious for their children, which is called "metaplasia".

For Niu Qingsheng

Children will pick wild flowers and hang them on their horns on Tanabata, which is also called "Happy Birthday to Niu". Because it is said that after the Queen Mother of the West separated the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl with the Tianhe River, the old cow asked the Cowherd to scrape off its skin and drive its cowhide to see the Weaver Girl. In order to commemorate the sacrifice spirit of the old cow, people have the custom of "celebrating the life of the cow".

drying books and clothes

It is reported that Sima Yi was highly regarded by Cao Cao because of his high position and power. In view of the political darkness at that time, in order to protect himself, he pretended to be crazy and hid at home. Wei Wudi is still not at ease, so he sent a close friend to make history secretly explore the truth. It was July 7th, and Sima Yi, who pretended to be crazy, was also drying books at home. Make history back to leave Wei Wudi, Wei Wudi immediately ordered to sima yi back to the office, otherwise can be taken into custody.

Sima Yi obediently returned to the DPRK. Another kind of people, in troubled times, express their depression by being a degenerate. They despise etiquette and oppose customs. Liu Yiqing's "Shi Shuo Xin Yu", volume 25, said that on July 7th, everyone printed books, and only Hao Long went to lie in the sun. When people asked him why, he replied, "I printed books".

On the one hand, this is a contempt for the custom of printing books, on the other hand, it is also a boast of one's own talent. Drying your belly is also drying books. In the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the custom of drying clothes in the Han Dynasty created opportunities for rich families to boast about their wealth. Ruan Xian, one of the "Seven Sages of Bamboo Forest", looked down upon this style. On July 7, when his neighbor was drying clothes, he saw that the shelves were full of silk and satin, dazzling.

Ruan Xian unhurriedly picked up a worn-out dress with a bamboo pole. When someone asked him what he was doing, he said, "I can't avoid customs, talk to you!" From these short stories, we can see how prosperous the custom of drying books and clothes on Tanabata was.

Dedicated to Mohelie

Mohelie is a children's plaything in Chinese Valentine's Day in the old days, that is, a small clay doll, whose image is mostly a lotus leaf half-arm dress and holding a lotus leaf. On July 7th, every year, in Kaifeng, "the tile outside Dongsongmen in Panlou Street, the tile outside Xiliangmen in Zhouzhou, the tile outside Beimen, the street outside Nanzhuquemen and Xingjie Ma, they all sell grinding and drinking music, which is a small plastic puppet".

In fact, after the later Song Dynasty, Mohe Music was no longer a small puppet, on the contrary, it became more and more refined. The size and posture of Mohelie vary, and the biggest one is as high as three feet, which is comparable to that of a real child. The materials made are carved with ivory or carved with bergamot incense, and the dressing of grinding and drinking music is extremely exquisite. There are painted wood carvings as column seats, or red sand cages as covers, and the toys held in the hands are mostly decorated with precious stones. The cost of grinding and drinking music is often as high as thousands of dollars.