Is Chinese Valentine's Day a festival for lovers?

Chinese Valentine's Day is a festival for couples.

Chinese Valentine's Day is a traditional festival in China, also known as the Seven Clever Days and the Seven Sisters Days. Through historical development, Tanabata has been endowed with the beautiful love legend of "Cowherd and Weaver Girl", making it a festival symbolizing love, which is regarded as the most romantic traditional festival in China, and it also has the cultural meaning of "China Valentine's Day" in contemporary times. According to tradition, couples will express their love and celebrate their love on this day.

In modern society, Chinese Valentine's Day is also called "Cowherd and Weaver Girl Festival" or "China Valentine's Day". Chinese Valentine's Day is a festival celebrated by couples, and it is a good opportunity to express their love and deepen their feelings. On Tanabata, many couples will choose to spend the festival together. Every couple may celebrate in different ways, but most of them will give each other gifts, flowers and express their love, and enjoy a romantic atmosphere to express their love and care for each other.

The traditional customs in Chinese Valentine's Day are listed as follows:

1. Begging for cleverness

Begging for cleverness is the most traditional folk activity in Chinese Valentine's Day. Begging for cleverness means begging for cleverness, begging the weaver girl to give herself skills and make herself dexterous. In Jinan, Shandong Province, people display melons and fruits for begging. If spiders spin webs on melons and fruits, it means that begging is successful.

2. Worship the Weaver Girl

At night in Chinese Valentine's Day, young girls and young women will gather their relatives and friends to worship the Weaver Girl. People will offer offerings under the moonlight hem and go to the front of the case to burn incense and worship together. After the service, we sat around the table, eating melon seeds and peanuts, and silently praying our wishes in the direction of the Vega constellation.

3. Eat proper fruit

In Hangzhou, Wenzhou and Ningbo, Zhejiang, people will make all kinds of small items with flour and put them in a frying pan on this day in Chinese Valentine's Day, which is called "proper fruit". In the evening, relatives and friends are enjoying the beautiful night while eating proper fruit and other foods.

above content reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Chinese Valentine's Day