Beggar's Day Customs

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Begging for coincidence festival and what other customs? Tanabata Festival to the maiden worship and begging for coquettish, race coquettish as the main customary activities, it is called the female festival, also known as the daughter of the festival, the Maiden Festival.

What are the customs of the Beggar's Tree Festival

In China, the night of the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, the weather is warm, the grass and trees, which is commonly known as the Tanabata Festival, some people call it "Beggar's Tree Festival" or "Daughter's Festival", which is the most traditional Chinese festival, and the most important part of the Chinese traditional festival.

This is one of the most romantic of the traditional Chinese festivals, and it is also the most important day for the girls in the past.

In the clear summer and fall night, the sky stars shine, a white Milky Way across the north and south, the east and west banks of the river, each with a shining star, looking across the river, far away from each other, that is, Altair and Vega.

Tanabata sitting to see Altair and Vega stars, is a folk custom, according to legend, in this night every year, is the heavenly Weaver and Cowherd in the magpie bridge meeting time. The Weaving Maiden is a beautiful, clever, dexterous nymphs, women in the mortal world will be begging her wisdom and skill on this night, but also less to her to ask for the gift of marriage, so the seventh day of the seventh month is also known as the Begging for coincidence festival.

It is said that on the night of the seventh day of the seventh month, you can see the Milky Way of the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden, or you can overhear the words of love of the two men who meet in the sky under the shelf of fruits and melons.

Girls in this night full of romantic atmosphere, the sky of the bright moon, seasonal fruits and melons, worship towards the sky, begging the goddess in the sky to give them a clever mind and dexterous hands, so that their own knitting red skill, but also begging for love and marriage of marriage coincidental match. In the past, marriage is a lifelong event for women to decide whether they are happy or not, so countless men and women in the world will be in this night, the night is quiet and deep moment, praying to the starry sky for their marriage.

The most common custom of the Tanabata Festival is the begging for coquettish objects by women on the night of the seventh day of the seventh month.

Most of the ways to beg for coquettish is the girls threading the needle to check the coquettish, do some small objects to race coquettish, put some fruits and melons to beg for coquettish, the way of begging for coquettish in various regions is different, each has its own interesting way.

In Shandong Jinan, Huimin, Gaoqing and other places in the begging activities are very simple, just display fruits and melons begging for coincidence, such as the joy of the spider webs in the fruits and melons on top of the begging means that beg for coincidence. And Jancheng, Cao County, plains and other places to eat coquettish rice begging custom is very interesting: seven good girl set food set vegetable dumplings, a coin, a needle and a jujube were wrapped into three dumplings, begging for coquettish activities, they get together to eat dumplings, the legend of eating to the money of the blessing to eat to the needle of the hands of the clever to eat the jujube of the early marriage.

Ancient Begging Day customs? "Tanabata", rumored to have originated from the story of the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden, one of the four great folk love legends of China.

The Tanabata Festival has always been linked to the legend of the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden, which is a very beautiful, ancient love story, is one of the four great folk love legends in China.

Legend has it that a long time ago, Nanyang City, west of the Niu Village, there is a smart, loyal young man, his parents died early, had to follow his brother and sister-in-law to spend their days, sister-in-law Ma's vicious, and often abused him, forcing him to do a lot of work, one year in the fall, sister-in-law forced him to go to the cattle, give him nine cows, but let him wait for the ten cows before going home, Cowboys have no choice but to drive the cows out of the village.

One day, the heavenly Weaving Maiden and all the nymphs came down to the earth to play games and bathe in the river, and the cowherd met the Weaving Maiden with the help of the old cow, and the two of them fell in love with each other, and then the Weaving Maiden came down to the earth secretly, and became the wife of the cowherd. The Weaving Maiden also distributed the heavenly silkworms brought from the sky, and taught everyone to raise silkworms, draw silk, and weave light and bright silk.

After the cowherd and the weaver got married, the man plowed and the woman weaved, and they had a boy and a girl and two children, and the family lived happily ever after. But the good times did not last long, this soon let the emperor know, the Queen Mother herself came down to earth, forcibly brought the weaver back to heaven, the loving couple was broken up.

The cowherd had no way to get to heaven, but the old cow told the cowherd that after he died, he could use his skin to make shoes and wear them to heaven. Cowboy in accordance with the words of the old cow did, wearing shoes made of cowhide, pulling their own children, together with the clouds and fog to the sky to chase the weaving woman, see is about to catch up, I do not know that the Queen Mother pulled down the head of the golden hairpin a wave, a wave of the heavenly river appeared, Cowherd and the weaving woman was separated from both sides of the river, can only be relative to the weeping and tears. Their faithful love touched the magpies, millions of magpies flew, built a magpie bridge, so that the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden on the magpie bridge to meet, the Queen Mother can not help, but to allow the two in the seventh day of the seventh month of every year in the magpie bridge to meet.

Later, every seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, according to legend, the day of the Cowherd and Weaving Maiden magpie bridge, the girls will come to the flowers under the moon, look up at the stars, looking for the Milky Way on both sides of the Cowherd and Weaving Maiden stars, hoping to see them meet once a year, begging God to allow themselves to Weaving Maiden as dexterous, praying for their own can be satisfied with the marriage, which has formed the Tanabata Festival.

East *** Ying Shao compiled the "Customs", which has a paragraph:

Weaving Maiden Tanabata when crossing the river, so that the magpie for the bridge, according to legend, seven days of the magpie head without a reason to scalp, because of the beam to cross the Weaving Maiden is also. (

This shows that, at that time, not only was Altair and Vega as husband and wife generally recognized, but also their annual magpie as a bridge to meet on the eve of the plot, but also in the folklore widely spread, and into the custom of.

The story of the cowherd and the weaving maiden has been passed down for thousands of years, giving rise to many interesting folk customs.

The main focus of Tanabata is mainly on the girls! Because legend has it that the Weaving Maiden is extremely skillful and can weave heavenly clothes as beautiful as clouds. In order to make themselves can also have the weaver's general skillful hands, in the young girls, so developed a kind of "begging for coincidence" custom. The custom of begging for coquettish objects was formed as early as the Han Dynasty, but it was only later that it was combined with the story of the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden. The needles used for begging for coquettish things are divided into two eyes, five holes, seven holes and nine holes. On the evening of the seventh day of the seventh month, holding a silk thread, threading the needle against the moonlight, to see who passes through first is "to get coquettish". Another way to throw the needle divination method, is at noon on the eve of the seven, put a pot of water in the sun burst, after a period of time, the dust in the space will be in the water on the surface of the formation of a layer of film. At this time the needle is dropped in the water, and with the support of the film, the needle will float on the water surface. Then look at the shadow of the needle presented in the water, if it becomes the shape of clouds, flowers, birds and animals, it is to get the trick. On the other hand, if the shadow is as thin as a thread or as thick as a mallet, then the needle has failed to be skillful. Some women collect all kinds of flowers, put them in copper pots with water, leave them in the courtyard, and then take them the next day to put on their faces, which is said to make their skin delicate and white. Some women pounded fenghuang flowers and dyed the ring finger and little nail with the juice, which was called "red nails". Some women also sing 〈〈Begging Song〉: "Begging hand, begging appearance, begging heart, begging face, begging my parents a thousand years old, begging my sisters ten million years." In addition, the day of Tanabata also have to set up an incense burner under the moon, offering fruits and flowers to the Weaving Maiden to beg for coquettishness. It is reported that there is a woman surnamed Ding in Caizhou, who is very good at female red. One year, when she begged on the eve of the seventh day of the month, she saw a shooting star fall on her incense case. The next morning, it was a gold shuttle. Since then, her "ingenuity has improved". Begging for coquettishness in so many ways that even the offerings to the Weaving Maiden can be useful. One of the essential offerings is melons and fruits, and if there are small spiders (a kind of spider) making webs on the melons and fruits in the night, it means that the woman has already obtained the coquettishness. Speak a little ...... >>

Begging for coquettish customs Begging for coquettish customs:

1, "Begging for coquettish" way most of the girls threading the needle to check the coquettish, do some small items race coquettish, set up some fruits and vegetables begging for coquettish, the various regions of the "Begging for coquettish" way vary. The way of "begging for coincidence" is not the same in each region, each has its own interest. Shandong Jinan, Huimin, Gaoqing and other places in the begging activities are very simple, just display fruits and melons "begging for coincidence", such as spider webs in the fruits and melons on top of it, which means that begging for coincidence. And Jancheng, Cao County, plains and other places to eat coquettish rice "begging for coincidence" custom is very interesting: seven good girls set food set vegetables dumplings, a copper coin, a needle and a date were wrapped in three dumplings, begging activities, they get together to eat dumplings, the legend ate to the money of the blessing, ate to the needle of the hand, ate to the date of the early marriage.

2, some places, "begging for coincidence" activities, with the nature of the competition, similar to the ancient custom of fighting. Modern needle threading, steamed coquettish meat and potatoes, branding coquettish fruit, there are also some places to do coquettish bud soup custom, generally in the first day of July will be soaked in water germination of grains, Tanabata day, cut buds to do the soup, the place of the children pay special attention to eat coquettish buds, as well as with the face sculpture, paper cutting, color embroidery and other forms of decorations made of the evolution of the custom of fighting coquettish. On the other hand, shepherd children would pick wildflowers and hang them on the horns of cows on the eve of the seventh day of the seventh month, which is called "congratulating the birthday of the cow" (legend has it that the seventh day of the seventh month of the seventh month is the birthday of the cow). Zhucheng, Tengxian, Zouxian area of the Tanabata rain is called "Acacia rain" or "Acacia tears", because it is the result of the meeting of the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden. Jiaodong, southwestern Shandong and other legendary magpies on this day is very little, are to the sky to take the magpie bridge.

3, in Fujian, Tanabata Festival to let the Weaving Maiden to appreciate, taste fruits and vegetables, in order to ask her to bless the next year's harvest of fruits and vegetables. Offerings include tea, wine, fresh fruit, five seeds (cinnamon, jujube, hazelnut, peanut, melon seeds), flowers and women's make-up with pollen and an 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 a race, that is, who is fast in threading the needle, who will get the trick, slow said "lose the trick", "lose the trick" the person will be prepared in advance to give a small gift to the trick.

4, some areas also organized "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 Weaving Maiden, "incense" are papier-maché, and the "incense case" are papier-maché, and the "incense case" 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.

5, Tanabata begging food for the festival, to the most famous Qiaoguo. Qiaojiao is also known as "begging for coquettish fruit", the style is very much. The main materials are oil, flour, sugar and honey. In the Tokyo Dreaming Book, it is called "Laughing Aversion", and there are drawings such as "Pressing Fragrance" and "Fang Sheng". Qiaoguo practice is: first sugar in a pot melted into syrup, and then and into the flour, sesame, mix well and then spread on the case, let it cool and then cut into rectangles with a knife, into the oil deep-fried until golden brown that is. Handy women, but also pinch molded a variety of legends related to the Tanabata pattern. In addition, begging with a variety of changes in the melon: some of the melon carved into exotic flowers and birds, this melon is called "flower melon".

Until today, Tanabata is still a romantic traditional festival. However, many customary activities have been weakened or disappeared, but the legend of the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden, which symbolizes faithful love, has been passed down to the world.

What are the customs of the Tanabata Festival? 1 needle begging This is the earliest way of begging, began in Han, flowing in later generations. Xijing Miscellany" said: "Han color women often wear seven holes in the seventh day of the seventh month needle in the lapel building, people with the practice." Southern Liang Zongmou "Jing Chu chronicles" said: "July 7, is the evening of the women of the family color building to wear seven holes outside, or to gold, silver, stone for the needle." Yiyizi Zhi" said: "Qi Wudi up layer of the city view, July 7, the palace more than boarding the needle. The world called the needle piercing building." Fifth Wang Renyu "Kaiyuan Tianbao remains" said: "Tanabata, the palace to brocade knot building hall, 100 feet high, on the can win dozens of people, Chen to fruits and wine sizzling, set up seating, to sacrifice the cow female two stars, concubines to nine-hole needle five-color line to the moon to wear, over the person who has been clever of the marquis. Move the song of the Qing Shang, feast music up to the end of the day. The soil people's homes all follow the example." Yuan Tao Zongyi "Yuan's Yatei Records" said: "nine cited Taiwan, Tanabata begging for coquettish. To the evening, the courtesans on stage to colorful silk wearing nine-tailed needle, the first to finish for the coquettish, late finish is called the loss of coquettish, each contributed to the gift of the coquettish."

2 Hi-Spider should be coquettish This is also an earlier way of begging for coquettish, its custom a little later than the needle begging for coquettish, roughly in the North and South Dynasties. In the South Dynasty, Liang Zong懔《荆楚歲時记》said; "It is the evening, Chen melon fruit in the court to beg for coincidence. If there is a net on the melon, then it is considered a charm."　　Wang Renyu of the Fifth Generation, "Kaiyuan Tianbao Legacy", said: "July 7, each capture the spider in a small box, to the dawn of the opening; depending on the spider web sparse and dense as a coincidence of the marquis. The dense say more, the sparse say less. Folk also effected" Song Dynasty Meng Yuan Lao "Tokyo Meng Hua Lu" said, July 7 "to small spiders in the Hap Zi, the next day to see, if the web is round is said to get coquettish." Song Zhou Mi, "Qian Chun years and times" said; "to a small spider stored in the Hop, to wait for the sparseness of the web for how long to get coquettish" Ming Tian Rucheng, "Xichao music," said the Tanabata "to a small box to hold the spider, the next morning to see the sparseness of its web for the coquettishness of the more or less." From this, we can see that the method of inspection of different generations, the North and South Dynasties, depending on the presence or absence of the web, the sparseness of the web of the Tang Dynasty, the Song Dynasty, depending on the roundness of the web, the later generations of the Tang custom.

3 cast a needle to check the coincidence This is a variation of the custom of Tanabata needle begging, originating from the needle, but different from the needle, is the prevalence of the Ming and Qing dynasties Tanabata festival. Ming Liu Dong, Yu Yizheng's "Imperial Capital Scenery" said: "" July 7 of the afternoon to throw the needle. Women's exposure to ounces of water in the sun, a short while, the water film surface, embroidery needles cast is floating, look at the bottom of the water needle shadow. There are into the clouds and things flower head bird and animal shadow, there are into the shoes and scissors water eggplant shadow, said begging to get coquettish; its shadow is thick as a hammer, as thin as silk, straight as a shaft of wax, this is a sign of clumsiness carry on." Zhishu Zhili" also said, Liangxiang County (now southwest of Beijing) "July 7, women begging for coquettish, throwing needles in the water, borrowing the sun shadow to check the work, to the night is still begging for coquettish in the weaver," please Yu Minzhong, "the sun under the old news of the Kaohsiung," quoted in "Miscellany of the Wan Agency," said: "Yandu women to the bowl of water on July 7 stormy sun, and each cast a small needle floating in the water, Xu see the bottom of the water, and the water, and the water, and the water. The surface of the water, Xu see the sun shadow under the water. Or scattered as flowers, moving as clouds, thin as a line, thick rent such as a cone, because to divine the female trick."

4 Seeds of life for children Old customs, a few days before Tanabata, first in a small wooden board on a layer of soil, sowing corn seeds, so that it gives birth to green seedlings, and then set up some small cottage, flowers and trees in the above, made into a small village of the field house people look like, known as "Shell Plate", or will be mung beans, small beans, wheat, etc., immersed in magnetic bowls, etc., it grows out of the buds on the inch, and so on. It grows out of the buds, and then tied into a bunch of red and blue silk rope, known as the "species of life", also known as "five pots of life" or "flower pots". In the south, also known as "bubble Qiao", will grow out of the bean sprouts called Qiao buds, and even Qiao buds instead of needles, thrown in the water begging. Also use wax to shape various images, such as the cowherd, the characters in the story of the weaver, or bald eagles, mandarin ducks, and other animal forms, placed on the water to float, known as the "water floating". There are also wax baby dolls, so that women buy home floating in the water and soil, thought the auspiciousness of the child, known as the "born".

5 enshrine the "mill drink music" mill drink music is the old folk Tanabata children's playthings, that is, the small clay doll, the image of its more than passing the lotus leaf half-arm dress, holding a lotus leaf. July 7 every year, in Kaifeng, "Panlou Street, East Song door tile outside the state, West Liang door tile outside the North Gate, outside the South Zhuquemen Street and Ma Hang Street, are sold grinding drink music, is a small plastic doll ear. In fact, a little later in the Song Dynasty after the mill drink music, is no longer a small puppet, on the contrary, the more exquisite. Grinding drink music size, posture varies, the largest as high as three feet, and the real children in the next. The production of materials are ivory carving or carved with Longyan Buddha hand incense, grinding drink music dress up, it is the most exquisite thing, there are painted wood carving for the column seat, or with red sand Bi cage as a cover, the hands of the toys held in the hands of gold, jade and gemstones to decorate, a pair of grinding drink music cost is often up to thousands of dollars.

6 worship weaver "worship weaver" is purely a young girl, *** they do. Most of them are in advance and their friends or neighbors about five or six people, as many as ten people, joint ...... >>

Tanabata Customs and Traditions Tanabata Customs and Traditions:

The most representative custom of Tanabata is to pray to the Weaving Maiden, hoping that they also have the same dexterity as the Weaving Maiden, weaving cloth weaving better. On the morning of that day, women put melons, cucumbers and other fruits on the table to kowtow and pray, so that the women's weaving skills are getting better and better. After a while, if they see a spider's web on the food on the table, they think that the heavenly fairy has granted their wish. In addition, they would place a pot of water (the first bucket of water in the morning) on top of a saucepan and put ash on a plate, praying that they would be able to do needlework, and then the next day, if there were any traces of the ash, they would believe that they had been granted their wish. This custom originated from the belief that the Weaving Maiden was a god in charge of needlework in the sky, along with the custom of begging for money, which was very popular during the Han Dynasty in China. The custom spread to neighboring nations during the Tang Dynasty.

Introduction to the Tanabata Festival

In China, the night of the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, the weather is warm, grass and trees fragrant, which is commonly known as the Tanabata Festival, also known as the "Begging for a coincidence festival" or "Daughter's Day", which is the most romantic of the traditional Chinese festivals. This is one of the most romantic of the traditional Chinese festivals, and it is also the most important day for the girls in the past.

On a clear summer and fall night, the sky is full of stars, a white Milky Way running across the north and south, and the east and west banks of the river, each with a shining star, looking across the river, far away from each other, that is, Altair and Vega.

Tanabata sitting to see Altair and Vega stars, is a folk custom, according to legend, in this night every year, is the heavenly Weaver and Cowherd in the magpie bridge meeting time. The Weaving Maiden is a beautiful, clever, dexterous nymphs, women in the mortal world will be begging her wisdom and skill on this night, but also less to her to ask for the gift of marriage, so the seventh day of the seventh month is also known as the Begging for coincidence festival.

It is said that on the night of the seventh day of the seventh month, you can see the Milky Way of the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden, or you can overhear the words of love of the two men who meet in the sky under the shelf of fruits and melons.

Girls in this night full of romantic atmosphere, the sky of the bright moon, seasonal fruits and melons, worship towards the sky, begging the goddess in the sky to give them a clever mind and dexterous hands, so that their own knitting red skill, but also begging for love and marriage of marriage coincidental match. In the past, marriage is a lifelong event for women to decide whether they are happy or not, so countless men and women in the world will be in this night, the night is quiet and deep moment, praying to the starry sky for their marriage.

Customs of the Tanabata Festival The custom of Tanabata is: begging. Tanabata Festival, also known as the Beggar's Day, seven coincidental festival or seven Sisters birth, originated in China, is the Chinese region and part of the Han cultural influence of the traditional festivals in East Asian countries, 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 of the night of the women in the courtyard to the Weaving Maiden star begging for wisdom, it is known as the "Begging for coincidence" early begging way: wearing a needle begging for coincidence in the southern dynasty Liang Zongmou Jingchu years of age records. said: "July 7, it is the evening of home women knot color building wear seven holes outside, or to gold, silver, stone for the needle." The opinion of the land said: "Qi Wudi up layer city view, the seventh day of July, the palace people more than boarding the needle. The world called the needle piercing building." There are also: the spider should be coquettish its custom a little later than the piercing needle begging for coquettish, roughly in the North and South Dynasties. In the Southern Dynasty, Liang Zong懔《荆楚岁時記》said: "It is the evening, Chen melon and fruit in the court to beg for coincidences. If there is a net on the melon, it will be a charm." This is a variation of the Tanabata custom of threading a needle to beg for coquettish objects, which originated from threading a needle and is different from threading a needle, and is a popular Tanabata custom in the Ming and Qing dynasties. Orchid night fight Qiaoqiao originated in the Han Dynasty court games, Han Gaozu love consort Mrs. Qi's courtesan Jia Peilan left the palace to marry the Fufeng people Duan Ru as his wife, often talk to people in the Han Palace Tanabata thing. The old custom, a few days before Tanabata, first in a small wooden board on a layer of soil, sowing corn seeds, so that it gives birth to green seedlings, and then set up some small huts, flowers and trees in the above, made into a small village of people in the field of the model, known as "Shell Plate", or mung beans, soybeans, wheat, etc., immersed in a magnetic bowl, etc., and so it grows the buds of the dress inch, and then to red and blue silk rope tied to the bottom. And then tied into a bundle of red and blue silk rope, known as the "species of life", also known as "five pots of life" or "pots of flowers". Around the South is also known as "bubble Qiao", will grow out of the bean sprouts called Qiao buds, and even Qiao buds instead of needles, thrown in the water begging.