Why do people thread needles to pray for dexterity on the Chinese Valentine’s Day? What are the festival taboos on Qixi Festival?
Why do people thread needles to pray for dexterity on the Chinese Valentine’s Day? What are the festival taboos on Qixi Festival? July is also a month with the fragrance of fruits and melons. It is also a month of harvest, which brings people inner excitement and joy. Therefore, July is also called the Melon Month. All relevant content about the seventh lunar month of 2022 can be found on Shuimo.net.Why do people thread needles to pray for dexterity on the Chinese Valentine’s Day?Threading a needle to beg for dexterity is also called "skill competition", which means women compete in threading a needle. They tie colorful threads and thread a seven-hole needle. Whoever threads faster means more skills that one can beg for. The one who threads slower is called "loser". The "loser" has to give the gift prepared in advance to the one who gets the skill. "Xijing Miscellaneous Records" said: "The women of the Han Dynasty often threaded seven-hole needles in the Kaijin Tower on the seventh day of the seventh month, and everyone was accustomed to it."On the Qixi Festival, there are several methods of "divination" to judge the cleverness of the contestants, including "threading a needle to pray for cleverness", "the spider responding to the call for cleverness", "threading a needle facing the moon", "losing cleverness", "competing in cleverness on the orchid night" and "testing cleverness by throwing a needle". What are the festival taboos on Qixi Festival?On the night of the Chinese Valentine's Day, in the areas where the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl's whispers are heard, there is a custom of prohibiting speaking loudly. In addition, like other traditional festivals, lying and saying unlucky words are prohibited, and the younger generation must be more respectful when speaking to the elders and use more polite language. Nowadays people call the Qixi Festival the Chinese Valentine's Day, but in the old days it was considered not a suitable day for marriage because the situation of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, looking at each other across the river, did not conform to the Chinese people's expectation of a happy marriage. |
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