What's so romantic about Tanabata?

The folk story of the meeting of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl on the bridge is well known to all women and children, and so is the weaving technique of the Weaver Girl. As the granddaughter of the Queen Mother, the Weaver Girl is beautiful, clever and ingenious. All the girls in the world ask her for wisdom and skillful skills, so Tanabata is also called "Qiaoqiao Festival".

Jiaodong nursery rhyme "Yellow Emperor, Yellow Emperor, I invite my seventh sister to heaven. Don't look at your needle, don't look at your thread, look at your seventy-two good means. " It is said that every Tanabata, girls in Jiaodong have to put on new clothes, gather in the yard, thread needles, show fruits and needlework. Sister qi zhou; "Smart bud bud, strange, long basin, towel cover. I took it off on July 7th, and my sister took a photo. Just like flowers and vegetables, see who has a quick brain. " It is about planting millet seeds a few days before Tanabata to make it grow green seedlings; Or soak mung beans in a porcelain bowl and wait for them to germinate. On Tanabata, the girls presented melons and fruits, cut off a smart bud, put it in clear water, and watched the shadow of the bud under the moon. This is the custom of divination. "Qiaoqiao, begging for beauty; Begging for heart and face; Ask your parents to be chitose and your sister to be chitose. " Every sentence is full of sincere hopes and wishes for life.

There are countless nursery rhymes with similar themes, the pictures of sisters scrambling for each other, the careful care of the "towel quilt" and the simple and sincere wishes for life, which are vivid in the cheerful nursery rhymes full of innocence and the beauty of life, and are still vivid today.