The first custom is to eat seven proper fruit.
Every traditional festival, there will be unique food participation, and Chinese Valentine's Day is no exception. Chinese Valentine's Day's exclusive food is Seven proper fruit. Proper fruit, also known as "Qiqiao Fruit", has many styles. The main materials are oil, flour, sugar and honey, and they are made into melons, fruits, flowers and plants. It is called "laughing tired of children" and "fruit eating pattern" in Tokyo Dream of China Record. In the Song Dynasty, seven proper fruit were sold in the city streets.
the second custom is to worship the weaver girl.
This activity is usually attended by women. Several people make an appointment in advance, and most of them are held in the evening. In the evening, a table is placed under the moonlight, and sacrifices such as tea, wine, fruit, five sons (longan, red dates, hazelnuts, peanuts and melon seeds) are placed on the table. Everyone sat around the table together, eating melon and fruit snacks and making a silent wish to the Weaver Girl.
The third custom is to ask for cleverness through needles, which should be the earliest way of begging for cleverness, starting from the Han Dynasty.
It is recorded in Miscellanies of Xijing: "Women in the Han Dynasty often wear a seven-hole needle in the Kaijin Building on July 7, and people have Xi Zhi." On this day in Chinese Valentine's Day, women and girls from all households will go out of their homes, and everyone will get together, guessing the meeting scene of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, taking out their own needlework and needlework, and begging for cleverness by threading needles.
the fourth custom is to dry books and clothes.
The custom of drying books and clothes was very popular in ancient times. Many short stories recorded that people would dry books and clothes on this day in Chinese Valentine's Day to get rid of bad luck. However, this custom has gradually evolved into a scene where Fuji, a giant, shows off its wealth, attracting the contempt of many literati.
The fifth custom is to give birth to Niu Hesheng.
Chinese Valentine's Day comes from the story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, which is not unfamiliar to everyone, but as the key, the old cow must be very familiar to everyone. According to legend, in order to help the cowherd cross the Tianhe River to meet the Weaver Girl, the old cow asked the cowherd to peel off his skin and cross the Tianhe River to meet the Weaver Girl through cowhide. In order to commemorate the self-sacrificing old cow, people will congratulate the old cow every time in Chinese Valentine's Day to show their respect for the old cow.
the sixth custom is to have children.
This is a very old custom. A few days ago in Chinese Valentine's Day, people would spread a layer of soil on a wooden board, sow the seeds of millet, let it grow green seedlings, and then put some huts and flowers on it to make it look like a small village of Tian Sheren, which is called a "shell board". Or soak mung beans, adzuki beans, wheat, etc. into a bowl, wait for it to sprout, and then tie it with red and blue silk ropes to form a bundle, which is called "planting" and also becomes "five-raw pots" or "raw flowerpots". All parts of the south are also called "bubble cleverness".
The seventh custom is to worship Kuixing.
But this festival has nothing to do with Chinese Valentine's Day. According to folklore, July 7th is Kuixing's birthday. Kuixing literature, scholars who want to gain fame especially admire Kuixing, so in order to be able to to be no.1, scholars will worship Kuixing on this day. Kuixing is Kuidou Star, which is the first lesson of the Big Dipper, and is also called the champion. Ancient scholars were called "the greatest scholar in the world" or "winning the championship in one fell swoop" when they won the first place in the exam, and the first place in it was Kuixing.