What is the festival on July 7th? What are the customs?

1, the seventh day of the seventh lunar month is called Qixi, Beggar's Day and Daughter's Day, which is a traditional festival with a long history in China. On that day, there were customs such as worshipping seven sisters, collecting dew, inserting a needle in the moon, sitting and watching petunias and weaving girls, asking for marriage, swimming in seven sisters' water and storing water on Qixi.

2. China folklore: Magpies bridge the Milky Way on the night of the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, so that the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl can meet on the bridge. This is an ancient custom. On this night, girls in China have to put on needles to beg for wisdom. The Queqiao Conference eulogized the unswerving love of the working people in China and their strong desire to pursue a better life.

Tanabata originated from people's worship of natural phenomena. As early as ancient times, people knew the astronomical phenomena, and corresponded the sky star regions with geographical regions. Ge Hong's Miscellanies of Xijing in the Eastern Jin Dynasty recorded that "women in the Han Dynasty often put seven-hole needles in the building on July 7, and everyone took them". This is the earliest record of begging for cleverness in ancient literature. In later Tang and Song poems, women's begging for cleverness was repeatedly mentioned. Wang Jian of the Tang Dynasty wrote a poem: "The stars are shining with pearls, and Gong E on Qixi is busy begging for cleverness."

This festival is closely related to the myth and legend of Cowherd and Weaver Girl. It is a beautiful love story that has been passed down through the ages, and it is also one of the four folk love legends in China.