The State Council stipulates the national legal holidays: New Year's Day, Spring Festival, May 1 International Labor Day and National Day are national legal holidays, and Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival are added as national legal holidays. Therefore, Chinese Valentine's Day is not a national holiday for the time being.

Chinese Valentine's Day, also known as Qiqiao Festival, Qijie Festival, Daughter's Day, Begging for Cleverness Festival, Qixi Festival, Cow and Bull's Day, Qiaoxi and so on, is a traditional folk festival in China. Chinese Valentine's Day, which evolved 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 Tanabata. It is the traditional custom of Qixi to worship the Seventh Sister, pray for wishes, beg for skillful arts, sit and watch the morning glory and the weaver star, pray for marriage, and store water on Qixi.

The custom of Chinese Valentine's Day

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, needlework

Legend has it that the Weaver Girl is clever and handy, so the girls to be married will wear needles to beg for cleverness on this day. There are many ways of "begging for cleverness". In ancient times, there was a custom of "floating needles to beg for cleverness". Girls tried to thread needles in various strange ways, hoping that they could become as smart as their children, and they could master needlework skillfully after getting married and win the favor of their husbands.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Chinese Valentine's Day