Origin and Customs of Beggar's Day

Begging Qiaojiao Festival, also known as the Tanabata Festival, from the story of the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden magpie bridge meeting, the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, the girls will come to the flowers in front of the moon, begging God to allow themselves to be like the Weaving Maiden as dexterous.

A, begging festival customs

Begging festival traditional customs are to worship seven sisters, worship the cowherd, praying and wishing, begging for coincidences, sitting and watching the Altair and Vega stars, and praying for marriage and so on. Because of the love story of the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden, modern people often treat the Tanabata Festival as a Chinese Valentine's Day.

Second, the Begging Day dietary practices

The Begging Day dietary practices are to eat coquettish fruit and eat coquettish rice. Qiaojiao is one of the festival food of Tanabata Begging for Qiaoqiao, which is the traditional offering and beauty spot of Tanabata Festival. On the evening of the Tanabata Festival, people bring the begging fruits, also known as crispy candies, to the courtyard, where the whole family sits around and tastes the craftsmanship of the people who make the fruits. Folk believe that people who eat this "sugar" will become dexterous. In China's Shandong Province, the Beggar's Day to eat Qiaoqiao rice, get together to eat dumplings, and legend has it that the money to eat a blessing, eat to the needle of the hand, eat to the date of the early marriage. In Fujian, the Tanabata Festival to let the weaving girl to appreciate, taste melons and fruits.