Qiaoqi Festival in Xihe County, Gansu Province lasted seven days and eight nights, and the whole activity was divided into several links.

Qiaoqi Festival in Xihe County, Gansu Province lasted seven days and eight nights, and the whole activity was divided into seven links.

1. Sit smart: People sit together to make appropriate fruits and exchange skills with each other.

2. Welcome Joe: On the first day of the festival, people welcome God Joe.

3. Clever Sacrifice: People hold sacrificial ceremonies, and the god Xiang Qiao prayed for wisdom and skills.

4. Worship Joe: People go to temples or supernatural gods to pray and pray.

5. Entertainment: During the festival, various entertainment activities are held, such as dances, operas and folk performances.

6. Buqiao: People perform divination during festivals, seeking good or bad luck in the future and praying for good luck.

7. Send Joe: On the last day of the festival, people give each other appropriate fruits to express friendship and blessings. Qiqiao Festival is a folk activity in Chinese traditional festivals, which is mainly held on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month (that is, Valentine's Day in China). The Begging Festival in Xihe County, Gansu Province is a unique traditional custom in this area with a long history and is deeply loved by local people.

What are the customs of Qiaojie's begging festival?

1. Every year from the end of June of the lunar calendar, in Xihe County, unmarried girls are busy getting together to discuss how to spend their unique festivals. Generally speaking, several sisters with good relations initiate activities, and unmarried women in the same village form a "venue" (commonly known as "seven clever venues").

2. After the Chocci Field was selected, the girls used their spare time to practice singing "Chocci Songs" in the girls' homes with better living conditions. Needle-piercing for cleverness: Women use colored thread to cross back and forth on the "Seven Clever Needles". Whoever wears it quickly means who is seeking cleverness.

The seventh day of the seventh lunar month is the night for Penny and Weaver to get together. On this night, people decorate themselves with lanterns, build a smart building, display fruits and vegetables, put on new clothes and put on a "seven needles" with seven pinholes at one end. Whoever dresses fast shows that he is original.

The purpose of needlework is to get the guidance of Weaver Girl, so that she can become an expert in weaving and sewing clothes.

5, throwing a clever needle: according to the shadow of the needle at the bottom of the water, judge the intelligence of women.

6. On the morning of the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, take a plate of water and expose it to the sun. After the water condenses into a film, put the needle that usually sews clothes or embroiders into the basin, and the needle will float on the water.

7. If the needle at the bottom of the water is like a cloud or thin and straight as a needle, it means that the woman who lost the needle is a "clever girl"; If the image of the needle at the bottom of the water is rod-shaped or crooked, it means that the woman who lost the needle is a "stupid woman".