What are the festive customs of the Tanabata Festival

Customs of the Tanabata Festival include: moon sacrifice, begging for money, catching dew, and incense bridge meeting.

1, moon festival: as one of the important sacrificial rites in ancient China, began in pre-Qin, is the royal rites, and then evolved into a family reunion as the theme of the sacrificial rites. The Mid-Autumn Festival originated from the ancient worship of the moon god, and is a remnant and derivation of the Han Chinese custom of moon sacrifice.

2, Beggar's Day: it is to the Weaving Maiden begging for a pair of skillful hands and skillful art is also they pray that they look beautiful, have a pair of skillful hands, marry a husband as you wish, which is the daughters of the good wishes.

3, catching dew: legend has it that the dew on the eve of the Tanabata Festival is the tears of the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden when they meet, such as wiping on the eyes and hands, can make people's eyes and hands.

4, incense bridge will: Tanabata incense bridge will come from the Chinese folk legend of love between the cowherd and the weaving maiden. On the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden meet at the Magpie Bridge.

The Tanabata Festival, also known as the seven coincidental festival, seven sister festival, the daughter of the festival, begging festival, the seven women will be, Tanabata Festival, the bull bull mother-in-law day, coquettish and so on, is a traditional Chinese folk festival. The Tanabata Festival is derived from the worship of the starry hosts and is traditionally known as the Festival of the Seven Sisters, so it is called Tanabata because the worship of the Seven Sisters is held on the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar. Worshipping the Seven Sisters, praying for blessings and making wishes, begging for skill, watching the Altair and Vega stars, praying for marriage, and storing water for Tanabata are all traditional customs of Tanabata. Through the development of history, Tanabata has been endowed with the beautiful love legend of "Cowherd and Weaving Maiden", making it a festival symbolizing love, which is considered the most romantic traditional festival in China, and in contemporary times, it has even produced the cultural meaning of "Chinese Valentine's Day".

The Tanabata Festival is not only a festival for worshipping the seven sisters, but also a festival of love, which is a comprehensive festival with the theme of praying for blessings, begging for coincidental gifts, and love, with women as the main body, based on the folk legend of "Cowherd and Weaving Maiden" as a carrier. The "Cowherd and Weaving Maiden" of Tanabata originates from people's worship of natural celestial phenomena. In ancient times, people corresponded the astronomical star area with the geographic area, and this correspondence was called "star dividing" in terms of astronomy and "field dividing" in terms of geography. This correspondence is known as "the division of stars" for astronomy and "the division of fields" for geography. According to legend, every year on the seventh day of the seventh month, the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden will meet at the Magpie Bridge in the sky.