begging for clever fruit.

Making Qiqiao fruit is a common food custom in many places on Qiqiao Festival. In Jiaodong Peninsula, whenever Chinese Valentine's Day, the daughter's family and her family will make proper fruit with molds in various shapes, commonly known as "flipping small fruits".

Qiqiaoguo is a concrete carrier of Chinese Valentine's Day culture, and there is a beautiful myth and legend behind it. According to legend, in ancient times, there was a girl named Xiaoqiao, who was deeply moved after hearing the sad and faithful love of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl.

Every year on Tanabata night, Xiao Xiao will make a delicate snack and burn incense to offer sacrifices, hoping that the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl can meet. The Jade Emperor was moved by Xiao Bian's kindness, so he made Yue Lao pull strings and Xiao Bian got a very happy marriage.

The origin of festivals

The ancient astrological culture in China has a long history and is profound. The ancients explored the mysteries of the universe from a very early age, and thus deduced a complete and profound star-watching culture. "Cowherd and Weaver Girl" is a typical example. The legend of Cowherd and Weaver Girl on Tanabata originated from people's worship of natural phenomena.

As early as ancient times, the ancient people who pursued order not only planned the sky in an orderly way, but also made a correspondence between the stars and the ground areas one by one. This correspondence is called "dividing the stars" in astronomy, and "dividing the fields" in the ground.

To put it simply, the ancients corresponded each constellation in the sky to the physical geographical area on the ground. The purpose of ancient star division and demarcation was mainly to cooperate with astrology theory for astronomical observation.

In the ancient astrological system, the "Taurus" is composed of six stars, which are located on the east bank of the Milky Way, like two inverted triangles, one of which is up and down, which is very distinctive, but the triangle above is bigger and brighter. The small triangle below is located on the ecliptic. These stars form a cow with two horns on its head but only three feet, so the ancients called it "Petunia".