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

The traditional customs of Tanabata include worshipping Seven Sisters, celebrating Xiangqiao, receiving nectar, celebrating Seven Sisters' birthdays, raising children, playing tricks, washing women's hair, seeking marriage, storing water on Tanabata, celebrating Niu Qingsheng's birthday, worshiping cowherd, worshiping mother in bed, watching stars on Tanabata, tying red headbands, and Zhagu Bridge. The seventh day of the seventh lunar month is a traditional festival of Valentine's Day in China. Valentine's Day in China originated from the worship of stars and the primitive belief of "leading a cow to lead a woman".

Baiqi steet

In Jiaodong area, more people worship Seven Sisters on Tanabata. Young women put on new clothes, got together, tied the knot for Seven Sisters in the court, and sang songs: "Yellow Emperor, I invited Seven Sisters to heaven. I don't want to draw your needle, I don't want to draw your line, I want to show you 72 good means. " In many places, "Qiao Hua" has also been made. Girls use flour to make cakes with flowers, such as peony, lotus, plum blossom, orchid, chrysanthemum (or appropriate fruit), and clever colors, that is, to cultivate malt in a small wine cup and offer appropriate fruits and clever colors to Weaver Girl.

Douqiao

Playing Joe is a competitive traditional folk cultural activity on Tanabata. Girls compete to thread needles, steam cakes, brand fruits, make soup with clever buds, and decorate with dough sculptures, paper-cuts and colored embroidery. Whoever has a good craft must have technology.

For Niu Qingsheng.

In the old society, children would pick wild flowers and hang them on their horns on Qixi, which is also called "Happy Birthday". Because it is said that after the Queen Mother of the West separated the Cowherd from the Weaver Girl by Tianhe, 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".

Ligate the ancient bridge

In the Loess Plateau of Shaanxi Province, it is also a custom to hold various begging activities on Tanabata night. Women often have to tie up grass people in flowered clothes, which is called the ancient bridge. They should not only provide melons and fruits, but also plant bean sprouts and shallots. On the night of Qixi, all the women held a bowl of water in their hands, cut bean sprouts and shallots, put them into the water, and used the shadow of the moon to predict the fate of cleverness. They also wear needles and thread to compete.