What are the customs and traditions of Valentine's Day in China?

The traditional customs of Valentine's Day in China mainly include "Nvhong", Tanabata fighting, eating appropriate fruit for Niu Qingsheng, and offering "grinding and drinking music".

1, female red

Valentine's Day in China is also called "Qiaoqiao Festival", so in the past, rural women prayed for their intelligence through various ceremonies. Among them, in many rural areas, women use needles to verify.

2. Tanabata fighting skills

Because it is a trick festival, in some rural areas, a "game of wits" will be held to celebrate the arrival of the "trick festival".

3. For Niu Qingsheng

In the countryside, there is a myth that the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl were separated by the Queen Mother. The old cow took the cowherd to see the Weaver Girl at the expense of his cowhide. In rural areas, in order to commemorate the sacrifice spirit of the old cow, a ceremony of "celebrating the birth of the cow" will be held.

Step 4 eat proper fruit

Appropriate fruit is the most famous festival food on Tanabata. Proper fruit, also called "Kiki Fruit", has many styles. The main raw material of fruit is oily molasses. "Tokyo Dream China" refers to "laughing at children" and "eating fruit patterns", and the patterns include holding incense and winning prizes. During the Song Dynasty, the unique fruits of Qixi were already sold on the streets of the city.

5. Sacrifice "grinding and drinking music"

Moeli is a little clay doll, a children's plaything on Valentine's Day in old China. Its image is mostly a lotus leaf half-arm skirt, holding a lotus leaf. On July 7th every year, in Kaifeng, "the tiles outside the Dongsongmen Gate of Panlou Street, the tiles outside the Xiliangmen Gate of Zhou Zhou, the tiles outside the North Gate, the tiles outside the South Suzaku Gate and the tiles in Xingjie Ma are all plastic puppets".

The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Tanabata.