According to the legend of Chinese Valentine's Day, the granddaughter of the ancient Emperor of Heaven is now good at weaving, spinning colorful clouds for the sky every day. Because she doesn't like this boring life, the weaver girl secretly went down to the mortal world to play and met the cowherd in Hexi.
Because of her lust for human feelings, Weaver lived a life of male ploughing and female weaving with Cowherd, and also distributed the wild silkworm brought from the sky to everyone to teach people sericulture and textile technology.
However, the fact that the good times didn't last long was soon known by the Emperor of Heaven, and the heavenly queen herself went to the mortal world to forcibly bring the Weaver Girl back to the Heavenly Palace. Cowherd is miserable every day because there is no way to heaven. Later, his old cow told him that he could go to heaven to find Weaver Girl by making shoes out of the skin of the old cow.
So when the old cow died, the Cowherd made shoes with cowhide and took her children to the sky. When the Queen Mother learned about it, she drew a galaxy with a golden hairpin to separate the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl from each other. Only on the seventh day of July can they meet each other every year.
The loyal love between the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl touched the magpies. Every year in early July, thousands of magpies will fly to take the bridge for the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, and they will be separated for a long time.
Make such a short meeting like a dream, as if "when the golden wind and the jade dew meet, it will win over countless people". Without difference, I don't know how difficult it is to get together.
The story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl spread gradually. Later generations will hold various activities and celebrations in Chinese Valentine's Day on this day, which not only wishes the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl to meet, but also hopes that they can have a wonderful love experience.
Chinese Valentine's Day custom Begging for Cleverness Festival The traditional customs include worshipping the Seven Sisters, the Cowherd, praying and wishing, begging for cleverness, sitting and watching the Petunia and the Weaver Maid, and praying for marriage. Because of the love story of Cowherd and Weaver Girl, modern people often regard Chinese Valentine's Day as China's Valentine's Day.
The diet custom of Begging for Cleverness Festival is to eat proper fruit and Qiaoqiao rice. Proper fruit is one of the festive foods for Qixi, a traditional sacrifice and beauty of Chinese Valentine's Day. On the evening of Qixi, people bring the fruit of begging for cleverness, that is, crisp candy, to the courtyard, and the whole family sit around and taste the craftsmanship of proper fruit people. Folks believe that people who eat this "crisp candy" will become ingenious.