Gansu Qiaoqi Festival is divided into several links.

The Begging Festival in Gansu Province is divided into seven parts: sitting skillfully, welcoming skillfully, offering skillfully, worshiping skillfully, entertaining skillfully, divining skillfully and sending skillfully.

First, sit smart:

People sit together to make appropriate fruits and exchange skills with each other.

Second, know Joe:

On the first day of the festival, people welcome Josh.

Third, the sacrifice is clever:

People held sacrificial ceremonies and prayed to Joe for wisdom and skills.

Fourth, thanks to Joe:

People go to temples or clever statues to pray and pray.

V. Entertainment:

During the festival, various entertainment activities are held, such as dance, opera and folk performances.

Six, step bridge:

People perform divination during festivals to seek good or bad luck in the future and pray for good luck.

Seven, send Joe:

On the last day of the festival, people present appropriate fruits to each other to express their friendship and blessings.

Introduction to the Church Festival:

Begging for Qiao Festival is one of the traditional festivals in China, which falls on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month and is also Valentine's Day in China. Legend has it that the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl meet once a year at the Yinhe Magpie Bridge. Begging for Skillful Hands refers to the girls begging for a pair of skillful hands from the Weaver girl, praying that they are beautiful, have skillful hands and marry a good husband, which is the beautiful wish of their daughters.

Begging custom:

First, needlework:

The seventh day of the seventh lunar month is the night when Penny and Weaver get together. On this night, people decorate themselves with lanterns, build a smart building, display fruits and vegetables, put on new clothes and put on a "seven needles" with seven pinholes at one end. Whoever dresses fast shows that he is original. The purpose of needlework is to get the guidance of Weaver Girl and make herself an expert in weaving and sewing clothes.

Second, Zhuo Faqi:

On the morning of the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, villagers in the south of the Yangtze River picked seven-leaf weeds and rubbed the grass juice to wash their hair. Facing the morning glow all over the sky, I sang "Shampoo Song" to wash my hair, and my hair was washed soft and smooth.

Third, show needlework skills:

On the evening of the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, women exhibited their works-embroidered shoes, Yuanyang pillows, pomegranate skirts, tiger hats, sachets, window grilles, shoe flowers, meticulous paintings and hand-woven handicrafts for everyone to evaluate and exchange skills.