What are the customs of Qiaojie's begging festival?

The seventh day of the seventh lunar month is a traditional festival in China, China Valentine's Day, also known as Georgie's Day. When it comes to Chinese Valentine's Day, people will naturally think of "Valentine's Day in China", such as cowherd and weaver girl, meeting at the magpie bridge, watching the stars, telling the truth and receiving gifts ... So, do you know what the traditional customs of Qiao Qi festivals are?

1. Worship the Weaver Girl on Tanabata. After burning incense in front of the case, everyone sat around the table, eating peanuts and melon seeds and meditating on their own ideas. If a girl wants to be beautiful or marry a husband, and a young woman wants to have a baby early, she can silently pray to the Weaver Girl.

2. The first star that worships Kuixing, the Big Dipper, is called Kuixing, also known as the champion. Kuixing is the god who dominated the rise and fall of articles in ancient China mythology. In the eyes of ancient students, Kuixing has the supreme status. It is said that July 7th is Kuixing's birthday, and Kuixing is a scholar. Scholars who want to achieve fame especially worship Kuixing, so they worship him on Qixi and pray for him to bless their success in the exam. In ancient times, scholars were called "the greatest scholars in the world" or "winning the championship in one fell swoop" because Kuixing was in charge of the exam. Scholars in eastern Fujian revere Kuixing, especially in Chinese Valentine's Day.

3. A few days before Tanabata, we first spread a layer of soil on the small wooden board, sow the seeds of millet, let it produce green seedlings, and then put some small huts and flowers and trees on it to make it look like a small village of Tian Sheren, which is called "shell board". Or soak mung beans, red beans, wheat and so on. Put it in a magnetic bowl and tie it into a bunch with red and blue silk thread, which is called "seed", also called "five raw pots" or "raw flowerpots". 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 Day as a symbol of blessing to children. It is also necessary to use wax to shape various images and float on the water.

4. Needle throwing is a variant of the custom of needlework on Qixi, which originated from needlework and was different from needlework. It was a popular custom on Valentine's Day in China in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The so-called needle injection test is to prepare a washbasin, put it in the patio, and pour in "Yuanyang water", that is, to mix the water taken during the day with the water taken at night. However, river water and well water are often mixed and poured into pots. Pots and water should stay overnight in the open air, and then the next day, the seventh day of July, the sun shines brightly, and you can "experiment" at noon or afternoon.

It should be smart to love spiders. This is also an earlier way to please. Its custom is a little later than needle piercing, probably starting in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. Put the spider in a box or cover it with a bowl, and judge whether begging is smart according to certain standards. If it is based on whether or not to network, it is smart to network; Some take the amount of netting as the standard, and the denser the netting, the more skillful it is. Whether the network is organized or not is standard, and being organized is skillful.

That's all I know about the traditional customs of Valentine's Day in China? Little friends, what else do you know?