In Jinan, Huimin, Gaoqing and other places in Shandong Province, the begging activities are very simple, just displaying melons and fruits for begging. At this time, if spiders spin webs on melons and fruits, it means too begging. But in Juancheng, Caoxian, Pingyuan and other places, the custom of begging for clever rice is very interesting: seven good girls bring noodles and vegetables, pack jiaozi together, and pack a copper coin, a needle and a red date into three jiaozi. After begging for clever activities, they get together to eat jiaozi. It is said that they are blessed with money, skillful with needles and early married with dates.
There are many other customs and habits in Chinese Valentine's Day, such as needlework, breeding children, drying books and clothes, worshipping the Weaver Maid and Kuixing, celebrating the seventh sister's birthday, dyeing nails and eating proper fruit. Therefore, Tanabata is far more meaningful than Valentine's Day, which is only celebrated by lovers in the west.