The Qiqiao Festival is the Qixi Festival.

Double Seventh Festival (Double Seventh Festival, also known as Qiqiao Festival, Qijie Festival, Girl's Day, Qiqiao Festival, etc.) is a traditional Chinese folk festival, derived from the worship of stars, and is a traditional Chinese festival. The Seventh Sister's Birthday is called "Qixi Festival" because the event of worshiping the "Seventh Sister" is held on the night of July 7th.

The Qiqiao Festival means that girls beg for a pair of skillful hands from the Weaver Girl, praying that they will be beautiful, have a pair of skillful hands, and marry a good husband. This is the beautiful wish of daughters. The seventh day of the seventh lunar month every year is the traditional festival of the Han people in my country, the Qiqiao Festival. Because the main participants in this day's activities are young girls, and the content of the festival activities is mainly about begging for clever tricks, people call this day the "Qiqiao Festival" or "Qixi Festival" or "Doll's Day".

The Qiqiao Festival began in ancient times, became popular in the Western Han Dynasty, and flourished in the Song Dynasty. It is endowed with the beautiful love legend of the "Cowherd and the Weaver Girl". Legend has it that the Weaver Girl was born on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, and was ingenious and kind-hearted. Textile goddess. Therefore, many women hope to follow the example of the Weaver Girl, so every time the Seventh Sister is born, they will offer sacrifices to the Seventh Sister, praying for their ingenuity and a happy marriage. This is the origin of the name "Qiqiao".

Festival customs of Qiqiao Festival:

1. Xiangqiao Hui

In Yixing, Jiangsu, there is the custom of Qixi Xiangqiao Hui. Every Chinese Valentine's Day, people come to participate and build fragrant bridges. The so-called incense bridge is a bridge four to five meters long and about half a meter wide made of various thick and long incense sticks (thread incense wrapped in paper). It is equipped with railings and tied with five-color threads. flower decoration. At night, people worship the twin stars, pray for good fortune, and then burn the incense bridge, symbolizing that the twin stars have passed through the incense bridge and meet happily.

2. Collecting dew

In rural areas of Zhejiang, the custom of using a washbasin to collect dew is popular. It is said that the dew during the Chinese Valentine's Day is the tears of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl when they meet. If it is applied on the eyes and hands, it can make people's eyes sharp and their hands sharp.

3. Begging for skill on the Chinese Valentine's Day

Begging for skill on the Chinese Valentine's Day, the "divination" method to judge the skill of a beggar mainly includes "threading a needle to beg for skill", "a happy spider should be skillful" and "threading a needle to the moon" There are several methods such as "Lanye fighting for skill" and "throwing a needle to test skill".

The above content refers to Baidu Encyclopedia-Qiqiao