Every year on July 7 of the lunar calendar is the traditional Tanabata Festival, what did people do on this day in ancient times?

Piercing a needle to beg for coquettish gifts

This is the earliest form of begging for coquettish gifts, passed down from more than 2,000 years ago. Many historical records show that on the night of the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, women will be fruit food all set to the yard and family members to enjoy the moon, will also be ready to colorful threads and nine-tailed needles out of the home of the female family members will be to the moon to wear the past, praying that they will be like the weaving girl sister as handy, so the Tanabata Festival is also known as the "Begging for coincidence Festival "

The festival is a celebration of the beauty of the moon.

Spider webs should be tricky

Everyone see the spider's web don't be afraid of ha, this spider's web how to come out pinch? This custom is from the North and South Dynasties, and people at this time invented a new custom. They would catch spiders on the day of Tanabata and put them in a box, and then open it the next day to see if there was a web or if there was no web. In the Tang Dynasty, there was a new way of judging, if the spider webs inside the box were very dense, it meant that there was more coquettishness yesterday; if the spider webs were sparse, it meant that there was less coquettishness.

Throwing a needle to check the coincidence

This kind of method is the favorite of people in Ming and Qing Dynasty. Now people are not happy to play at night, at noon, women will put a bowl of water under the sun, and then the hands of the needle thrown into the water to see the reflection of the water waves in the bottom of the bowl, some of the water inverted image of the filaments can be depicted like patterns, some like flowers, some like birds, there are like landscapes, this kind of is a good omen; there are ripples of particularly coarse, this kind of is not to the tricky.

Species of birth

There is another custom is to seek children on the day of Tanabata. Ancient people would find a small wooden board a few days before the Tanabata Festival, and then sprinkle the seeds of millet, mung beans, wheat and other crops on the board, and then sprinkle water every day to cultivate, and when they produce shoots, they will tie them up with a rope and put them on the outside, this kind of so-called "Shell Board". Others sprinkle the shoots on the water to see if the ripples are lucky. In addition to these customs, there is also the custom of throwing wax dolls in the water, you can pray for a child.