Gansu province xihe county begging festival **** there are several links

Gansu Province Begging Festival seven links. The whole event is divided into sitting coquettishly, welcoming coquettishly, sacrificing coquettishly, worshipping coquettishly, entertaining coquettishly, divining coquettishly and sending coquettishly.

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The Tanabata Festival (Beggar's Day) is also known as the "Daughter's Day", "Women's Day" and "Ancient Women's Day". It is a traditional festival popular in Xihe County, Gansu Province, one of the national intangible cultural heritages.

Xihe County, Gansu Province, around the Tanabata Begging Folklore appeared in the Han Dynasty, after the development of the Tang and Song Dynasties, the Ming and Qing Dynasties reached a boom, so far there have been more than a thousand years of history. West and beg Qiaoqiao folk activities are rich in content, diverse forms, from the lunar calendar June 30 (small month for the 29th) evening, to the end of the evening of the seventh day of the seventh month, before and after the last seven days and eight nights, the whole activity is divided into sitting Qiao, welcome Qiao, sacrifices Qiao, worship Qiao, amusement Qiao, divining Qiao, send Qiao seven links.

On June 7, 2008, the Tanabata Festival (Beggar's Nest) was approved by the State Council of the People's Republic of China to be included in the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage lists, Item No. Ⅹ-4. Every year, starting from the second half of June on the Chinese lunar calendar, in Xihe County, both in the county town and in the countryside, the girls who have not yet started their families are busy discussing how to celebrate this festival, which is unique to them.

Generally, a few close sisters initiate activities, and unmarried women from the same village form "a field" (commonly known as "begging field"). After choosing a field, the girls would pair up and use their free time to practice singing the "Begging Song" at the home of a girl who lived in a better place.

Inheritance value

Historical and cultural value

Xihe Qixiao Festival custom is a comprehensive folklore activity integrating faith, poetry, music, song and dance, arts and crafts, and it has high historical and cultural research value. Discovering and protecting the folklore of Xihe Qixiao Festival is of great significance in promoting the study of social system, lifestyle, folk customs and aesthetic orientation in the era of agricultural civilization, tracing the origin of Chinese civilization and exploring the characteristics of West Qin culture.

Women's survival value

The Xihe Beggar's Tree Festival is a festival specially set up for women, which creatively opens up a space for women, shaping and interpreting their rich spiritual worlds with "superhuman" imagination and mentality, and giving them comfort, meaning and dignity.

The Beggar's Day is in some way a program to find support for women in their lives, so the Weaver has become a favorite, a role model, and an idol of worship for women, and a protector of women's hearts, from whom they find the value of their existence.