Regarding the origin of Chinese Valentine's Day, is there a custom of praying for children on Chinese Valentine's Day?
Although everyone knows about the Chinese Valentine's Day, not everyone knows how it came about. So, let's take a look at the origin of the Chinese Valentine's Day. Shui Mo Net has prepared the lunar calendar content for the seventh month of the lunar calendar in 2021. You can click on Shui Mo Net's special topic on the seventh month of the lunar calendar in 2021 to learn more.Introduction to the Origin of Chinese Valentine's DayThe origin of Chinese Valentine's Day is actually related to the birthday of the Seventh Sister.The so-called Seventh Sisters’ Birthday is also known as the Seventh Sisters’ Meeting, the Seventh Sisters’ Birthday, etc. The Seventh Sister (Vega) is a cloud weaver and textile worker. She is the patron saint of lovers, women and children. July 7 is her birthday. Before the founding of New China, "Seventh Sister's Birthday" was a grand festival for women. The main activities of "Seventh Sister's Birthday" include praying for blessings and making wishes, begging for skills, praying for marriage, and protecting children's safety. Activities like worshipping the Seven Sisters have been forgotten, and only a very small number of clan associations still set up incense tables to worship the Seven Sisters during this festival. Of course, the origin of the Chinese Valentine's Day is actually related to human beings' worship of natural celestial phenomena. People's worship of the natural phenomena of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl has a long history and can be traced back to ancient times. "Preface to the Spring and Autumn Annals" states: "When the heaven and the earth were opened up, all myriad things were in chaos and ignorant; yin and yang were based on... the sun, the moon, and the five latitudes all rose from Altair; every 45,000 years, the sun, the moon, and the five latitudes rotated once;... the image of the sky was determined, the rituals of the earth were followed, and the stems and branches were used to determine the degrees of the sun and the moon." "Book of Han·Records of Calendars and Lunar Calendars" states: "It refers to the beginning of Altair to record the sun and the moon, so it is called Xingji; the five stars rise from the beginning, and the sun and the moon rise in the middle." "Shuowen Jiezi" states: "Things refer to all things; cattle are the biggest things; the number of heaven and earth starts from Altair; hence the character "牛", without any sound". "Shi Zi": "The sky opens up to the left and the Altair rises, the earth opens up to the right and the Pleiades rise." "The Book of Celestial Officials" [Commentary]: "Nan Dipper, Altair and Sudra are all star signs. In Chen, they are in Chou, which is the dividing line of Yue, while Dipper and Ox are the dividing line of Wu." Volume 61 of Kaiyuan Zhanjing quotes Shi as saying: "Morning cow is born in the town of Lie Ze, and it governs the State of Yue." Note: Altair is the dividing star between the Wu and Yue regions. The original meaning of "Qianniu and Wunu" is the "dividing stars" used in Guangdong to correspond to the geographical divisions of astronomical star regions. Is there a custom of praying for children on the Qixi Festival?Yes, from the traditional customs of the Chinese Valentine's Day, there is also a custom of praying for children on the Chinese Valentine's Day. A few days before the Chinese Valentine's Day, a layer of soil is applied on a small wooden board, and corn seeds are sown to allow it to grow into green shoots. Or you can soak mung beans, adzuki beans, wheat, etc. in a porcelain bowl, wait for them to grow inch-long sprouts, and then tie them into a bundle with red or blue silk ropes. This is called "seeding", and is used to pray for children. It is also called "Pao Qiao" in various parts of the south. The grown bean sprouts are called Qiao Ya, and people even use Qiao Ya to replace needles and throw them on the water to pray for cleverness. Various images are also sculpted out of wax, such as the characters in the story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, or the shapes of vultures, mandarin ducks, and other animals, and placed on the water to float, which is called "floating on water." There were also wax baby dolls that women would buy and place them in water and soil to float them home, believing that this would bring good luck in having a child, a practice called "transformation." |
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