The Chinese Valentine's Day is also known as Qijie Festival, Girl's Day, Qiaoqiao Festival, Qinianghui, Chinese Valentine's Day Festival, Niuniu Gonggongpo Day, Qiaoxi Festival, etc.

The Qixi Festival began in ancient times, became popular in the Western Han Dynasty, and flourished in the Song Dynasty. It has become a traditional festival in Chinese areas and East Asian countries, and the date is set on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month every year. The Qixi Festival is derived from the worship of stars and is the birthday of the Seventh Sister in the traditional sense. Because the worship ceremony for the "Seventh Sister" is held on the night of July 7, it is named "Qixi Festival".

The seventh day of July is related to the ancients’ worship of numbers and time. In ancient times, the "seven" days of the first lunar month, February 2, March 3, May 5, June 6, July 7 and September 9 were regarded as auspicious days. "Chongri" was considered a day in ancient China when "heaven and earth communicated" and "heaven and man communicated". Calculating the current "week" with "Nichiyo" is still reserved in Japanese.

Folk customs:

1. Qixi Festival begging for skills

Qixi Festival, the "divination" method used to judge the skillfulness of a beggar mainly includes "threading a needle to beg for skills", There are several forms such as "A happy spider should be clever", "Threading a needle against the moon", "Driving for cleverness on a orchid night" and "Throwing a needle to test one's skill".

2. Needle-threading and begging for skill

Needle-threading and begging for skill is also called "racing skill", that is, women compete in needle-threading. They tie colorful threads and thread a seven-hole needle. Who can thread it faster? , which means whoever begs for more luck will be called the "lucky loser". The person who "loses the luck" will give the gift prepared in advance to the lucky person.

3. Threading a needle to the moon

"Threading a needle to the moon" means that on the evening of the seventh day of July, every household cleans the courtyard. Young women and girls must first Kneel down and worship Vega devoutly, and beg Vega to bless you with your ingenuity. Then, they took out the colorful silk threads and seven silver needles they had prepared in advance, and threaded the needles on the moon. Whoever threaded the seven needles first would indicate that she would become a skillful woman in the future.

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