What day of the lunar calendar is the Chinese Valentine's Day? What folk activities are there on the Chinese Valentine’s Day?

What day of the lunar calendar is the Chinese Valentine's Day? What folk activities are there on the Chinese Valentine’s Day?
Qixi Festival is also known as Chinese Valentine's Day. According to legend, the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl meet on this day. What day of the lunar calendar is the Chinese Valentine's Day? What day is Chinese Valentine's Day in 2019 in the new calendar? What folk activities are there on the Chinese Valentine’s Day? The seventh month of the lunar calendar is a month filled with the fragrance of fruits and flowers. So how is the seventh month of the lunar calendar 2019? Mr. Shui Mo's website will take you to learn more information!

What day of the lunar calendar is the Chinese Valentine's Day?

Chinese Valentine's Day is the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar every year. The Chinese Valentine's Day in 2019 is Wednesday, August 7 in the Gregorian calendar. The Chinese Valentine's Day, also known as the Qiqiao Festival, Daughter's Festival, Girl's Festival, Qinianshui, Seven Daughters' Birthday, Qiniansma's Birth, Double Seventh Festival, Xiangqiao Festival, Qiaojie Festival, Kuixing Festival, Book Drying Festival, Fairy Festival, Qixi Water, Dashui Festival, Xiangri, Valentine's Day, is an ancient love festival.
Volume 31 records that "In July, millet ripens, and the seventh day is a yang number, so elk is considered a treasure." Elk is a plant. It is also said that "July 7th is a good day." During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, people would gather and have fun on July 7th. This day is also the time when the gods in heaven gather.
7. Since ancient times, both Chinese and foreigners have worshipped it. The Semites, the builders of the ancient Babylonian Empire, revered the seven stars as gods, believing that they took turns in power and dominated the vicissitudes of the world. The Semitic princes regarded seven as the greatest, most numerous and most complete number, and their reverence for the seven-star god ran through all their religious activities.

What folk activities are there on the Chinese Valentine’s Day?

1. Begging for Skill:
Begging for skills on the Qixi Festival has always been an elegant affair among women. On this day, any woman who wants to become a skilled woman would beg the Weaver Girl for skills. "Miscellaneous Records of Western Capital" records: "Beautiful women in the Han Dynasty often threaded seven-hole needles in the Kaijin Tower on July 7th. Everyone was used to it." The royal family and nobles vied with each other to imitate the event of begging for cleverness, and the common people followed suit and learned from them. It became a trend for a time, so that the Qixi Festival is also known as Girls' Day.
2. Fighting with ingenuity:
"Dou Qiao" originated from a game in the palace of the Han Dynasty. Fighting with ingenuity is a competitive traditional folk cultural activity during the Chinese Valentine's Day. The girls competed in threading the needle, steaming clever buns, baking clever fruits, making clever sprout soup, and making decorations with dough modeling, paper cutting, and colorful embroidery. Whoever has good craftsmanship must be skillful.
3. Throwing needles:
On the morning of July 7th, take a bowl of water and expose it to the sun. After a while, a thin film will form on the water surface. At this time, if you put a needle used for sewing clothes or embroidery into the water, the needle will float on the surface. If at this time you see the needle shadow on the bottom of the water become the shadow of clouds, flowers, birds or animals, or become as thin and straight as a needle, it means you are "begging for luck".
4. Washing and combing utensils:
On July 7th, dry books and clothes. Washing hair and using all toiletries is also a popular custom among the people. In Jiading of Jiangsu, Huzhou of Zhejiang, Dexing of Jiangxi and other places, most women wash their hair and combs on this day.

Is the Chinese Valentine's Day on July 7, 2019 a good day?

Lunar calendar: July 7, 2019
Gregorian calendar: Wednesday, August 7, 2019 Leo
[Today's Old Almanac is suitable] [Do not use it on the day of the four most important events]
Fasting and offering sacrifices to pray for a son, seeking wealth, burying, marrying a son-in-law, litigating, breaking ground, drilling, removing mourning clothes, building a house, erecting pillars and beams, resigning from office, planting, taking in livestock, digging wells, catching, signing contracts
[Today's taboos in the old almanac] [Do not use on the day of the four most important events]
Bed installation, construction, groundbreaking, marriage, moving into new home, travel, migration, separation, opening warehouse, collecting money, opening market
According to the almanac, the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar in 2019 is August 7 in the new calendar. This day is not a good day for anything.
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