The best gifts for Tanabata

The best gifts for Tanabata Festival are chocolate gift boxes, flower bouquets, and handmade gifts.

Chocolate gift box: when it comes to what the best gift to send on the eve, chocolate is certainly indispensable, eve dating, romantic and sweet, chocolate, if with exquisite gift box packaging, more can make the festive atmosphere add a few points of warmth, but need to pay attention to is that the quality of the chocolate and the taste can not be poor, otherwise it will affect the feeling.

Flower bouquet: flowers have always been one of the best gifts to express love, but also a great choice for gift-giving on the eve of July, roses have always been the representative flower of love, but in the florist, in addition to roses, there are other kinds of flowers to choose from, and the inspiration can come from some other aspects as well. Light up the world for your lover with a beautiful bouquet of flowers.

Handmade gifts: in such a romantic festival as Tanabata, handmade gifts can be closer to the connotation of traditional culture, but also more able to show the heart of the elaborate, a handmade card, a collage an embroidered scarf and so on can provide them with a cozy warmer, increase the feelings, and handmade things have their own unique temperament, and more able to leave unforgettable memories.

Customs of Tanabata

Throwing needles to check coquettishness: Throwing needles to check coquettishness is a variation of the Tanabata custom of threading needles to beg for coquettishness, originating from the threading needles, but also different from the threading needles, is the prevalent Tanabata custom of the Ming and Qing dynasties, the so-called Throwing needles to check coquettishness, that is, the first to prepare a basin, put it in the patio, pouring into the "Mandarin ducks water", that is, take the daytime, the water of the mandarin ducks. ", that is, the water taken during the day and the water taken at night mixed together, but often the river, well water mixed together into the basin even if it became, basin and water to the open air overnight, and then by the next day that is, the seventh day of the seventh month of the sun, to the midday or afternoon can be "check the cleverness of the".

Losing coquettish: losing coquettish, Tanabata begging for coquettish, wearing a needle to fall into the latter for the "losing coquettish", after worshiping the immortal, the girls handheld colorful line to the shadow of the lamp will be threaded through the needle holes, such as a breath of air can be worn seven needle holes is called to get the coquettish, is known as coquettish, wear less than seven needle holes is called to lose the coquettish. As depicted by a Tang Dynasty poet: "It is easy to thread a needle to the moon, and difficult to straighten the thread in the wind. I do not know who get coquettish, tomorrow try to look for," the worship ceremony is over, the eight Immortals on the stage of the furnishings remain unchanged, to be reserved for the next day (the seventh) for the girls to visit each other when they visit, comment.