Chinese Valentine's Day in 2022 is on Thursday, August 4th, 2022 in Gregorian calendar and the seventh day of July, 2022 in lunar calendar.

Chinese Valentine's Day, also known as Seven Clever Days, Seven Sisters' Days, Daughter's Day, Begging for Cleverness, Seven Mothers' Day, Qixi Festival, Cow and Bull's Day and Qiaoxi, is a traditional folk festival in China. Chinese Valentine's Day, derived from the worship of the stars, is the birthday of the seventh sister in the traditional sense. Because the worship of the seventh sister was held on the seventh day of July, it was named Qixi. After historical development, Tanabata has been endowed with the beautiful love legend of Cowherd and Weaver Girl, making it a festival symbolizing love, and it has also produced the cultural meaning of China Valentine's Day in contemporary times. What are the customs of Tanabata?

1, Xiangqiao Club

In Yixing, Jiangsu, there is the custom of Qixi Xiangqiao Festival. Every year on Tanabata, people come to participate and build a fragrant bridge. The so-called incense bridge is a bridge with a length of four or five meters and a width of about half a meter made of all kinds of thick and long wrapped incense (thread incense wrapped in paper). It is equipped with railings and decorated with flowers made of five-color lines. At night, people offer sacrifices to the Double Star, beg for good fortune, and then burn the Xiangqiao, symbolizing that the Double Star has crossed the Xiangqiao and met happily. This fragrant bridge is derived from the legendary magpie bridge legend.

2. Eat a clever meal

In Shandong, China, the custom of begging for clever rice on this day is very interesting: seven good girls collect food and vegetables, jiaozi, and wrap a copper coin, a needle and a red date into three dumplings respectively. After begging for clever activities, they get together to eat dumplings. It is said that they are blessed with money, skillful with needles and early married with dates.