Origin:
This festival comes from the legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl and is celebrated on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month. Because the main participants in this day's activities are girls, the content of the festival activities is mainly begging skills, so people call this day "begging skills festival" or "daughter's day" or "daughter's day". On May 20th, 2006, Tanabata was listed in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage by the State Council.
Introduction:
China Valentine's Day takes the folklore of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl as the carrier, expressing the feelings of married men and women who never give up and grow old together, and abiding by their commitment to love. With the development of time, Qixi became the Valentine's Day in China.
Custom:
1, Jiangnan
Embroidery mothers in the south of the Yangtze River will gently put the embroidery needle on a bowl of water in the moonlight at night, and let the needle float with the help of the surface tension of the water. Under the irradiation of moonlight, water ripples will appear around the needle, which is the most complicated and the embroidered works are the best. There is HongLing on the hour hand, which is also a "trick" on the seven fairies. "
2. Southwest China
The Qixi custom in southwest China dyes nails. On festivals, young girls wash their hair with the sap of trees. It is said that this can make them young and beautiful, and it also means finding suitable men for unmarried women.
3. Jiaodong
In Jiaodong, most people worship the Seven Gods on Tanabata. Women put on new clothes, get together and form an alliance in Seven Sisters; Girls use peony, lotus, plum blossom, orchid, chrysanthemum and other flowers to make cakes and buns, which are called smart cakes to worship the Weaver Girl.