Ancient Tanabata customs begging for coquettish initially refers to what ancient Tanabata customs introduction

1, Begging for coincidence festival is to the Weaving Maiden begging for a pair of skillful hands skillful is also they pray that they look beautiful, have a pair of skillful hands, marry a husband as you wish, this is the daughters of the good wishes. Every year on the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar is the traditional festival of China's Han Chinese begging festival. Because the main participants in the activities of this day is a young girl, and the content of the festival activities are mainly to beg, so people call this day "Begging for coincidence" or "Tanabata Festival", "Daughter's Day".

2, Tanabata Begging, the festival originated in the Han Dynasty, the Eastern Jin Dynasty Ge Hong's "Xijing Miscellany" has "Han color women often wear seven holes on the seventh day of the seventh month needle in the Kaixiao building, people are practicing" record, this is the earliest we have seen in the ancient literature on the begging of the record. Later in the Tang and Song poems, women's begging was also mentioned repeatedly, Tang dynasty Wang Jian poem said "appendant stars and buckets decorated with pearl light, Tanabata palace e begging busy". According to the "Kaiyuan Tianbao remains": Emperor Taizong of Tang Dynasty and his consort every Tanabata in the Qing Palace night feast, the palace ladies beg, this custom in the folklore is also enduring, and continue from generation to generation.

3, Song and Yuan times, Tanabata begging is quite grand, the capital also has a market specializing in the sale of begging items, the world known as begging city. Song Luo Ye, Jin Ying Zhi collection of "drunkard" said: "Tanabata, Pan Lou before the sale of begging things. Since July 1, car and horse anger throat, to three days before Tanabata, car and horse do not pass, one after another congestion, no longer come out, to the night square dispersal." Here, we can infer the bustling scene of the Tanabata Beggar's Nest at that time from the grand situation of buying beggar's objects in the Beggar's Nest.

4, people from the first day of July began to set up the begging objects, begging city on the traffic, the flow of people like a tide, to the approach of the eve of the day, begging city simply became an ocean of people, cars and horses difficult to travel, to see its style, seems to be no less than the grandest festival - the Spring Festival, indicating that begging for coincidence is the ancients are the most favorite one of the festival! The most important thing is that it is one of the most favorite festivals of the ancient people. Nowadays, most of the way to beg for coincidence is the girls threading the needle to check the coincidence, do some small items race coincidence, set up some fruits and melons to beg for coincidence, various regions of the way to beg for coincidence is not the same, each with its own interesting.