Why is the Tanabata Festival also known as the Beggar's Day?

The Tanabata Festival, also known as the "Begging for Coquettishness Festival", is the most romantic of the traditional Chinese festivals. According to legend, the night of the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar every year is the time when the "Weaving Maiden" and the "Cowherd" meet in the sky. The "Weaving Maiden" is a beautiful, clever, dexterous nymphs, women in the mortal world on this night to her to beg for wisdom and skill, but also to her to ask for the gift of a beautiful marriage.