On the seventh day of July, why do women beg for a pair of skillful hands like weaver girls?

The seventh day of the seventh lunar month in China is a folk begging festival in China. It is said that this day is also the day when Altair and Vega meet in the sky.

In ancient times, the sky was as blue as a shower, and there was no cloud at all. The Emperor of Heaven thought it was too monotonous, so he asked his seven daughters to weave cloth, and Abel Tamata made a dress. The cloth woven by seven daughters is either gray or white, or very monotonous. The youngest person in Seven Sisters is a caring person. She found a flower with seven colors in the garden, so she picked many such flowers and dyed the yarn with beautiful colors. Through her efforts, she finally spun colorful yarn. The sisters were very happy and praised her dexterity. Everyone decided to let Tian usually wear white clothes; Wear gray clothes when it rains; Wear colorful clothes in the morning and evening. When the Emperor of Heaven knew this, he was very happy and named his youngest daughter "Weaver Girl".

The weaver is tired of knitting every day and always wants to see the scenery below. There was a young man who caught her attention. She found that the young man was always farming alone, and only talked to the old cows around him when he was resting. The Weaver Girl felt a little pity for him. This young man is a cowherd.

One day, the old cow said to the cowherd, "Tomorrow is the seventh day of July, and the seven daughters of the Emperor of Heaven are going to take a bath. You hide the clothes of the Weaver Girl, and she can be your wife. " Cowherd was very moved by the old cow's words and decided to give it a try.

On the seventh day of July, the cowherd hid in the reeds by the river and waited. Soon, I saw seven colorful clouds floating in the sky, each with a fairy. I saw fairies come to the river, took off their clothes and jumped into the clear water. Cowherd jumped up, picked up Weaver Girl's clothes and ran back. Because he ran too fast, the sound of reeds and reeds alarmed the seven fairies, who went ashore one after another. The six of them put on their clothes and flew into the sky. Only the youngest weaver girl stood by the river in panic without clothes. Cowherd stammered to Weaver Girl that he would return his clothes as long as he promised to marry him. Seeing that she was a young man whom she admired, the Weaver Girl nodded shyly.

That night, the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl got married under the auspices of the old cow. In two years, Weaver Girl gave birth to a pair of children. The couple farm and weave, and their lives are very happy.

In a blink of an eye, seven years have passed, and a day in the sky is equivalent to a year on earth. Every seven days, the Emperor of Heaven will summon seven daughters. He was very angry when he found that the Weaver Girl didn't return to Heaven to marry a mortal. On July 7th, the Emperor of Heaven will send messengers to take the Weaver Girl back and ask for atonement. The Cowherd was heartbroken and picked two children with a laundry list to chase the Weaver Girl. The old cow took off a horn and turned it into a spaceship, carrying the cowherd and his children to the sky. The child shouted in despair, "mom, mom." When the Weaver Girl heard the Cowherd and the children crying, she broke away from the heavenly generals and wanted to meet them. At this time, the Emperor of Heaven suddenly stretched out a huge hand from the sky. When the sky opened, a choppy galaxy suddenly passed through the middle of the cowherd and the weaver girl. At this time, groups of magpies fell from the sky and set up a magpie bridge on the Milky Way, where the cowherd and the weaver girl met. The Emperor of Heaven had no choice but to allow the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl to meet at Queqiao on the night of the seventh day of July every year.

Later, on July 7th, the girls wanted to "please" the Weaver Girl. They brought colored thread and seven needles. If they can pass smoothly, they will be skilled girls. It is said that children can still hear cowherd and weaver girl whispering under the grape trellis that night.

Another legend of begging for Qiaojie Festival

"The emperor, the emperor, I ask seven elder sister to heaven. Don't look at your needle, don't look at your thread, look at your seventy-two good means. " -this is the song of the girls' wives in the "Qiaoqiao Festival".

Every year on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, it is said that the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl meet at the Magpie Bridge. Girls will come to the moon and the flowers, look up at the starry sky, look for cowherd and weaver girl on both sides of the Milky Way, hope to see their annual meeting, pray that God can be as ingenious as weaver girl, and pray that they can have a happy marriage, thus forming China's Valentine's Day.

Qiaoqiao Festival varies from place to place, but it is all girls and daughters-in-law who "qiaoqiao" in various ways, hoping that they will become clever and charming. Therefore, Begging for Clevership Festival is a girl's festival. But if men think this begging festival has nothing to do with themselves, it is wrong! There's another way to say Kiki Day-

According to legend, the star king in charge of world affairs is the "Kuixing". Kuixing's birthday is July 7th. According to folklore, Lord Kuixing was ugly before his death. One leg is long and the other is short. He is a cripple, and his black face is covered with pockmarks. When he was studying, his classmates looked down on him, and some even wrote a limerick to make fun of him: why not decorate lead, even lead? Marrying Ma Gu into two beauties is no worse than coming to the hive. Leave claws under the eyebrows, and geese step on the sand beside their noses and mouths. It's just a nap in front of the eaves, and the wind blows plum blossoms on your forehead. Xiang Jun's jade toe is the strangest, with one high and one low. Don't laugh, the waist branches are often half folded, and the temporary swaying is also colorful. ......

The classmates made fun of him in this way, which inspired Kuixing's ambition. He didn't feel inferior and discouraged. He studied hard and studied more. Later, he went to Beijing to catch the exam and laughed at his classmates for failing the list, except Kuixing Hongbang High School, who was the first! When he entered the palace for an exam, the emperor was unhappy to see that he was ugly or disabled, and asked him why his face was covered with spots. Kuixing replied: "The pockmarked face is full of stars"; The emperor asked him why one leg was long and the other was short. He replied, "hop." Kuixing's witty answer satisfied the emperor, so he made an exception and accepted him.

After Kuixing ascended to heaven, the Jade Emperor thought that he could set an example for all the students in the world, so he was named Kuixing-Kuixing in the Twenty-eight Nights, the first star of the Big Dipper, also known as Kuixing or No.1 scholar.

Throughout the ages, all scholars, who don't want to "win the championship in one fell swoop" and thus "win the world"? Is that the two brothers eat wine and fight, and don't forget the "top five"! Therefore, every year on July 7th, the birthday of Kuixing, all the scholars should worship Kuixing and pray for his success in his studies and exams. Or wish yourself a good ranking, lest the teacher criticize you by name and dad beat up PP.

Although this legend is not as widely known as the "Cowherd and Weaver Girl Club", it has a long history and is related to every scholar. Dad often pulls his hair and pats PP, just let others remember Kuixing first.

Tanabata is full of tricks.

During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, Qiaqiao was quite grand, and there was also a market in Beijing that monopolized Qiaqiao goods, which was called Qiaqiao City by the world. In a poem in Tang Dynasty, Wang Jian said, "The stars are decorated with pearls, and Gong E is busy on Qixi". Song He's series "Talking about Drunken Weng" said: "Tanabata, the property is a gimmick. From July 1 ST, horses and chariots were swallowed, and three days before Chinese Valentine's Day, horses and chariots were not allowed to pass, and they stopped driving again and again until the night. " Here, we can infer the lively scene of the Jocci Festival from the grand occasion of buying Qiao Qi goods from Qiao Qi. People have been putting up flattering articles since the first day of July, and people are coming and going in the flattering market. By the time of Tanabata, the market of Qiqiao was already crowded with people, as if it were the biggest festival-Spring Festival, which showed that Qiqiao Festival was one of the favorite festivals of the ancients.

Alliance under the moon, threading the needle. In Jiaodong area, there is a custom of worshipping Seven Sisters. Young women often like to get together in new clothes on Tanabata and get married in Seven Sisters at the end of the month. Some people even sang "Emperor Emperor, I invite seven sisters to heaven. Don't look at your needle, don't look at your thread, look at your seventy-two good means. " They also compete for the title of skillful hands.

Try to move the needle skillfully. July 7th is Women's Day. The girl held the water in the jar to the sun, with a needle floating in the middle, and took photos of the shadow in the water to try the trick, resurrect the fruit and compete for "seeking the trick".

Grow smart vegetables for smart flowers. There are two activities in Rongcheng, Shandong. One is "clever dishes", that is, young girls cultivate malt in wine glasses, and the other is "Qiao Hua", where young girls use flour to shape various foods with flowers.

Clever aunts are ligated, bean sprouts and green onions are planted, divination is skillful, and window grilles are cut with needles. In the Loess Plateau of Shaanxi Province, it is also a custom to hold various begging activities on Tanabata night. Women often have to tie up grass people in flowered clothes, which is called the ancient bridge. They should not only provide melons and fruits, but also plant bean sprouts and shallots. On the night of Qixi, all the women held a bowl of water in their hands, cut bean sprouts and shallots, put them into the water, and used the shadow of the moon to predict the fate of cleverness. They also wear needles and thread to compete. At the same time, there is also an activity of cutting window grilles more skillfully.

Seek cleverness with spiders. Zhejiang, Anhui and other places adopt the method of spider begging: put spiders in small pots or boxes, and see the density of their webs the next morning to determine their intelligence. If spiders still weave webs on melons and fruits, it also means the arrival of ingenuity. And how clever it is to store spiders in boxes and wait for the density of nets.

Catch the dew. In rural areas of Zhejiang, it is popular to use washbasins to receive dew. Legend has it that the dew on Tanabata is the tears when cowherd and weaver girl meet. If you put it in your eyes and hands, it can make people agile.

A seed gives birth to a child. Giving birth to children is a custom of Valentine's Day in China in the middle and old times, and it is actually one of the fertility beliefs. Before the festival, several plants, such as wheat, mung beans, adzuki beans and peas, were put into a vessel to germinate for several inches, and tied up with red and blue harnesses on Tanabata as a symbol of blessing children. It is also necessary to use wax to shape various images and float on the water.

Wash your hair with sap and dye your nails with flowers and plants. Young girls in many areas like to wash their hair with the sap of trees during festivals. It is said that not only young and beautiful, but also unmarried women can find the right husband as soon as possible. Dyeing nails with flowers and plants is also a hobby of most women and children in holiday entertainment, and it is also closely related to reproductive beliefs.

On the seventh day of Qixi, the red rope is stored. There is a custom of storing water on Tanabata in some areas of Guangxi. It is believed that double seven baths can eliminate disasters and diseases. Sick children often tie a red rope into seven knots on this day and wear it around their necks to pray for health and good luck.

Eat smart food. The dietary customs of Valentine's Day in China vary from place to place, which is generally called clever eating. Among them, jiaozi, noodles, avocados, wonton and other foods are used for this festival. If you eat cloud flour, it must be made of dew, and you can get a good taste when you eat it. There are also many folk pastry shops that like to make some crisp candy with the image of Weaver Girl, commonly known as "capable people" and "skillful cakes", and they are also called "sending talented people" when they are sold. This custom has spread in some areas so far.