What is the Chinese Valentine's Day and what is it for? What are the customs?
The love story of Cowherd and Weaver Girl is widely circulated on the Qixi Festival, so the Qixi Festival is known as China's Valentine's Day. So what are the customs on the Qixi Festival? From ancient times to the present, every July, most temples would hold the Ullambana Festival to express gratitude and filial piety, and believers would make donations to provide for monks and worship their ancestors. Therefore, July is the "auspicious month" for monks and believers to express filial piety, repay gratitude to their parents, pray for blessings and do good deeds. Follow Shuimo.com and learn more about the seventh month of the lunar calendar with the editor!What is the Chinese Valentine's Day and what is it for?The Chinese Valentine's Day, also known as the Qiqiao Festival, the Seven Sisters Festival, the Daughters' Day, the Qiqiao Festival, the Qinianshui, the Qiaoxi Festival, the Niugong Niupo Day, and the Double Seventh Festival, is a traditional Chinese folk festival and the traditional birthday of the Seven Sisters. Because the worship of the "Seven Sisters" is held on the seventh night of July, it is named "Qixi". The Chinese Valentine's Day is not only a festival to worship the Seventh Sister but also a love festival. It is also a comprehensive festival based on the folk legend of "Cowherd and Weaver Girl", with the themes of praying for blessings, begging for skills and love, and women as the main body. The traditional customs of the Qixi Festival include worshiping the Seven Sisters, praying for blessings and making wishes, begging for skills, watching the Altair and Vega stars, praying for marriage, and storing water for the Qixi Festival.What are the customs?1. On the Chinese Valentine's Day, people will thread needles to pray for cleverness, watch spiders respond to calls for cleverness, throw needles to test cleverness, plant seeds to pray for children, offer sacrifices to "Mohe Le", worship the Weaver Girl, worship Kuixing, dry books and clothes in the sun, celebrate the ox's birthday, eat clever fruits, etc.2. On the Chinese Valentine's Day, young girls and women gathered in groups of three or five to hold a ceremony, set out fruit offerings, bathe, fast, burn incense and worship. Then everyone sat around the table, eating fruits and snacks, and silently making wishes to the Weaver Girl, such as marrying a good husband or having a baby soon. 3. During the Chinese Valentine's Day, people will also make some small dolls with different images and put them in their homes. In the beginning, dolls were made of clay, such as the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, children, or small animals such as cows and sheep. Later, the dolls became more and more exquisite, not only using gold and silver, but some people also made them into strange dolls as tall as real people. 4. Among all the competitions on the Chinese Valentine's Day, needle threading competition was the first to become popular, which began around the Han Dynasty. On the Chinese Valentine's Day, women and girls from every household would go out and gather under the grape trellis, guessing what secret words the Weaver Girl would say when they met, while taking out their needlework. People beg for dexterity by threading a needle, and the one who threads the needle the fastest is the one with the most dexterous hands. |
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