Chinese Valentine's Day, also known as the Begging Festival, originated in the Han Dynasty. Ge Hong's Miscellanies of Xijing in the Eastern Jin Dynasty recorded that "women in the Han Dynasty often put a seven-hole needle on the Kaijin Building on July 7th, and everyone was in Xi Zhi". The first Begging Festival was not to commemorate the love of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, but to commemorate the Weaver Girl, who was called "Seven Sisters" by the people. Therefore, Chinese Valentine's Day is a women's festival first, and the Weaver Girl is regarded as the goddess of textile, which is the object of ancient women's worship. On the night of the seventh day of July, ordinary women begged her for wisdom and skillful skills, and of course, they also inevitably asked for a happy marriage and a husband.

Because the main participants in this day's activities are young girls, and the content of the festival activities is mainly begging for skills, people call this day "Begging for Skills Festival" or "Chinese Valentine's Day" or "Daughter's Day".