What are the customs of begging for coquettishness ah!

Begging for coincidence, Chinese custom of the year, the night of the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar (or the night of the sixth day of the seventh month), wearing a new dress of young girls in the courtyard to the Weaving Maiden star begging Zhiqiao, known as "begging for coincidence". Begging for coquettish way is mostly girls threading the needle to check the coquettish, do some small items race coquettish, set up some fruits and melons begging for coquettish, around the Han Chinese folk begging for coquettish way is not the same, each has its own interesting. Modern needle threading, steamed steamed steamed buns, branding coquettish fruit, raw coquettish buds and decorations made in the form of face molding, paper-cutting, color embroidery and so on is also an extension of the custom of begging for coquettish.

Begging for coincidences Customs:

Hangzhou, Ningbo, Wenzhou and other places, such as flour on this day to make a variety of small objects, fried in oil called "Qiaoguo", the evening in the courtyard display Qiaoguo, lotus seed, white lotus root, red rhombus and so on. Girls wear needles to the moon in order to pray to the Weaving Maiden for her skill, and if they do so well, it is called "getting skillful". Or catch a spider, put it in a box, and open the box the next day to see if it has made a web. (There is also said to catch spiders at noon)

And in the Shaoxing countryside, this night there will be a lot of young girls alone secretly hiding in the growth of lush pumpkin shed, in the dead of night if you can hear the Cowherd and Weaving Maiden meet when the whispers of the maiden to be married to the young girl will be able to get the millennium of undying love.

In order to express people's hope that the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden can live a good and happy family life every day, in the area of Jinhua, Zhejiang Province, on the seventh day of the seventh month, every family has to kill a chicken, which means that the night the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden will meet each other, and if there is no rooster to announce the daybreak, they will be able to stay together forever.

In western Guangxi, legend has it that on the seventh day of the seventh month morning, the fairies want to come down to take a bath, drink their bath water can be to ward off evil spirits, cure diseases and prolong life. This water is called "double seven water", people in this day when the cock crows, scrambling to go to the river to get water, retrieved with a new urn, to be used later.

The Beggar's Nest festival in Guangzhou is unique. Before the arrival of the festival, the girls are prepared to use colored paper, grass, string, etc., compiled into a variety of strange small artifacts, but also will be put into a small box of cereal seeds and mung beans soaked in water, so that the germination, to be sprouted to more than two inches long buds, to be used to worship the gods, known as the "worship of the immortal Harvest" and "worship of the gods vegetable It is called "Worshiping the Immortal Harvest" and "Worshiping the Divine Vegetables". From the sixth night to the seventh night, two nights in a row, the girls put on new clothes, wear new jewelry, everything is arranged, then burning incense and candles, kneeling to the stars, known as the "welcome to the immortal", from the third night to the fifth night, to worship seven times.

After worshiping the fairy, the girls hold the colorful threads against the shadow of the lamp and pass the threads through the needle holes, such as a breath of air can wear seven needle holes is called to be clever, known as the clever hand, wear less than seven needle holes is called to lose the clever. After Tanabata, the girls will make small crafts, toys to give each other, to show friendship.

In Fujian, on the Tanabata Festival, the Weaving Maiden is asked to appreciate and taste the fruits and melons, in order to ask for her blessing for a good harvest in the coming year. Offerings include tea, wine, fresh fruits, five seeds (cinnamon, jujube, hazelnut, peanut and melon seeds), flowers and pollen for women's make-up as well as an upper incense burner. Usually after fasting and bathing, everyone takes turns to burn incense in front of the offering table and pray silently for their wishes. The women not only beg for coquettishness, but also for children, longevity, beauty and love. Afterwards, we eat fruit, drink tea and chat, while playing the begging game, begging game there are two kinds: one is "divination", that is, with the divining tool to ask yourself whether it is tricky or stupid; the other is the race tricky, that is, who threads a needle fast, who will be tricky, the slow one is called "losing tricky", "losing tricky", and "losing tricky". The other is the race, that is, whoever is fast in threading the needle, who gets the trick, and the slow one is called "losing the trick", and the one who "loses the trick" has to give the one who gets the trick a small gift prepared in advance.

Some areas also organize "seven sisters will", each area of the "seven sisters will" gathered in the Zongxiang Hall set down a variety of brightly colored incense, remote sacrifice to the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden, "incense" are papier-maché. "The incense burners are all made of papier-maché and are filled with a wide array of flowers, fruits, rouge powder, small paper-made flowery clothes, shoes, daily necessities and embroidery. The "Seven Sisters' Meetings" in different regions would work on the joss sticks and compete to see who could make the most exquisite joss sticks. Today, this kind of activity has been forgotten, and only a very small number of clansmen guilds still set up joss sticks to worship the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden on this festival. The incense is usually prepared on the seventh day of the seventh month, and the begging to the Weaving Maiden begins in the evening.