The customs in Chinese Valentine's Day are as follows:
1. Eat seven proper fruit
During traditional festivals, food must be an indispensable part. Just like Spring Festival and dumplings, Dragon Boat Festival and Zongzi, Mid-Autumn Festival and moon cakes, Chinese Valentine's Day naturally has its own unique cuisine-Seven proper fruit. Proper fruit is also called "the fruit of begging for cleverness", and it is called "laughing at children" in Dream of Tokyo. Its main materials are oil, flour, sugar and honey, and it will be made into melons, fruits, flowers and plants. According to records, seven proper fruit were sold in the streets of Song Dynasty.
2. Breeding
This is an ancient custom, also known as "five-raw pots" or "raw flowerpots", and some places in the south are also called "soaking skillfully". A few days ago in Chinese Valentine's Day, people would spread several layers of soil on wooden boards, plant millet to make them grow green seedlings, and then put some small huts and flowers on them to make them look like small villages, which are called "shell boards". Sometimes mung beans, adzuki beans, wheat and so on are planted in the bowl, and when it grows buds, it is tied into a bundle with red and blue threads.
3. For Niu Hesheng
In the story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, the old cow asked the Cowherd to peel off his skin in order to help him cross the Tianhe River, so that the Cowherd could cross the Tianhe River with the help of cowhide to meet the Weaver Girl. In order to commemorate the self-sacrificing old cow, on this day in Chinese Valentine's Day, children will pick wild flowers and hang them on their horns to pay homage to the old cow and show their respect for it.
4. Worship to the Weaver Girl
This activity is basically attended by women. At night in Chinese Valentine's Day, tables and chairs are laid under the moonlight, and tea, wine, fruit, five sons (longan, red dates, hazelnuts, peanuts, melon seeds) and other items are put on the table. Everyone sat around the table together, eating melon and fruit snacks and making a silent wish to the Weaver Girl.
5. Needle-piercing begging for cleverness
This should be the earliest way of begging for cleverness, which was recorded in the Han Dynasty. "Miscellanies of Xijing" mentioned: "Women of Han Dynasty often wear seven holes in the Kaijin Building on July 7th, and people have Xi Zhi". On this day in Chinese Valentine's Day, every woman in every household will go out of the house, get together, take out her own needlework and needlework, and beg for cleverness by threading a needle.