Traditional festivals and customs in Chinese Valentine's Day

China Valentine's Day, also known as Qiaoqi Festival, Qijie Festival, Daughter's Day, Beggar's Day, Chinese Valentine's Day, Niuniu Festival and Qiaoxi Festival, is a traditional folk festival in China. There are some customs, such as incense bridge meeting, receiving dew, worshiping Seven Sisters, fighting skillfully, and asking skillfully through needles. The specific customs are as follows:

1, Xiangqiao Club: In Yixing, Jiangsu, there is the custom of Xiangqiao Club on Qixi. Every year on Tanabata, someone will participate and build a fragrant bridge. The so-called incense bridge is a bridge with a length of four or five meters and a width of about half a meter, which is made of all kinds of thick and long incense-wrapped paper. It is equipped with railings and decorated with flowers made of five-color lines.

2. Receiving dew: In rural Zhejiang, the custom of receiving dew with washbasin is popular. Legend has it that the dew on Tanabata is the tears when cowherd and weaver girl meet. If you put it in your eyes and hands, it can make people agile.

3. Worship Seven Sisters: The Seven Sisters Festival on July 7th is often called "Worship Seven Sisters" in Guangdong, and "Worship Seven Mothers" in Fujian and Taiwan Province. In the old days, it was very lively to celebrate the Seven Qiao Festival in Guangdong. Liu Kezhuang once wrote a poem in the Song Dynasty: "Melons and fruits are blessed with fists, and their throats sell their voices. Cantonese people are very smart, and the lights are on until dawn. "

Before the festival comes, the girls prepare all kinds of fancy toys in advance, and make all kinds of flowers, fruits, ladies, utensils, court models and other things with medulla tetrapanacis, colored paper, sesame seeds and rice grains. Soak the seeds and mung beans in a small box and let them sprout. When the bud grows to more than two inches long, it is used to worship the gods, which is called "worship the crane" and "worship the gods".

Some will also organize everyone to gather in the Zongxiang Guild Hall, put down all kinds of colorful incense tables and pay homage to the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl. The "incense table" is filled with flowers, fruits, rouge powder, paper flowers, shoes, daily necessities, embroidery and so on.

4. Fighting skill: Fighting skill on Tanabata, the methods to judge whether a good fighter is good at fighting mainly include "piercing the needle for cleverness", "liking spiders for cleverness", "piercing the needle on the moon", "losing cleverness", "fighting at night" and "throwing the needle for cleverness".

5. Needle-piercing is clever: Needle-piercing is also called "competition cleverness", that is, women wear needles in competitions. They tie colored thread and thread a seven-hole needle. The faster they dress, the more they beg for wisdom. Dressing slowly is called "carelessness". People who lose their cleverness should give gifts prepared in advance to smart people. "Miscellanies of Xijing" said: "Women in the Han Dynasty often wear seven-hole needles in Jinkai Building on July 7, and people have the ambition of Xi." ?

Baidu Encyclopedia-Tanabata