Introduction: Chinese Valentine's Day is an important traditional festival in our country, and the day of Chinese Valentine's Day can be auspicious or inauspicious. So is the seventh day of the seventh lunar month in 2019 a good day for Chinese Valentine's Day? Is this year's Chinese Valentine's Day an auspicious day? In July, melons and fruits are fragrant, so we also call the seventh month of the lunar calendar the "Melon Month". Follow Mr. Shui Mo's website and let us learn more about the seventh month of the lunar calendar in 2019!Is the seventh day of the seventh lunar month in 2019 a good date for Chinese Valentine's Day? Is this year's Chinese Valentine's Day an auspicious date?2019 Lunar July 7th Chinese Valentine's Day Calendar Query:Lunar calendar : July 7, 2019 Gregorian calendar : Wednesday, August 7, 2019 Leo 【Today’s lunar calendar is suitable】 [Do not use 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 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 From the above almanac content, we can know that the Chinese Valentine's Day on the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar in 2019 belongs to the "Do not use it for the four most important events" category, which is an unlucky day. Therefore, today is not an auspicious day! What is Chinese Valentine's Day?The Chinese Valentine's Day, also known as the Qiqiao Festival, the Seven Sisters Festival, the Daughter's Day, the Qiqiao Festival, the Qinianshui, the Qiaoxi, the Niu Gong Niu Po Day, and the Double Seventh, is a traditional Chinese folk festival. It is the birthday of the Seven Sisters in the traditional sense. Because the worship activities are held on the evening of July 7, it is named "Qixi".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 are the traditional customs of the Qixi Festival. Through historical development, the Chinese Valentine's Day has been endowed with the beautiful love legend of "Cowherd and Weaver Girl". As it has been endowed with connotations related to love, it has become a festival symbolizing love and is thus considered to be China's most romantic traditional festival. In contemporary times, it has even developed the cultural meaning of "Chinese Valentine's Day". What are the customs and habits of the Chinese Valentine’s Day?Qixi Festival customs: Tangram puzzleTangram, also known as the wisdom board, is a square thin board cut into seven pieces of different sizes, which can be arbitrarily pieced together to form various shapes such as characters, fonts, etc., to stimulate children's intelligence. Qixi Festival Customs: Threading a Needle to Beg for Skill In the customs of the Chinese Valentine's Day, the needle is a special festival prop that ancient girls must know how to use and is essential for doing "women's work", that is, needlework. On the night of July 7, if one can successfully thread the needle, it is considered "lucky". The "loser" has to give the gift he prepared in advance to the lucky one. Qixi Festival customs: planting seeds to pray for a child Just use a cardboard or wooden board and put an inch of soil on it, and plant mung beans and adzuki beans on the first day of July. When it grows buds of an inch in size, they are tied into a bundle with red and blue silk ropes. This is called a "seed pot", also known as a "five-pot pot" or a "flower pot". 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." Qixi Festival customs: breaking peach branches Breaking peach branches is one of the customs of the Chinese Valentine's Day. Peach branches can dispel evil spirits, detoxify insects, and relieve abdominal pain. Used for shampooing to remove dirt and grease. Qixi Festival Customs: Rubbing Hibiscus On the Chinese Valentine's Day, most women would crush hibiscus leaves in water, filter out the hibiscus leaf juice and use it for washing their hair, which is commonly known as "kanshutiao". It is said that washing your hair with hibiscus sticks can keep your hair shiny for a long time without any harm, and its dirt-removing function is much better than soap and other cleaning products. Qixi Festival customs: washing combs The proverb goes, "On June 6th, books and seals are published; on June 6th, clothes are checked." In Jiading of Jiangsu, Huzhou of Zhejiang, Dexing of Jiangxi and other places, women mostly wash their hair and combs on this day. Qixi Festival customs: nail painting During the Chinese Valentine's Day, women would pound the juice of the angelica flower and dye the tip of their ring finger nail, which they called red nail. According to legend, if the red nails are kept until the New Year's Day of the following year, the old people will see them and their blurred vision will be cured. Qixi Festival customs: celebrating the ox’s birthday July 7 is the day when the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl meet. To celebrate, this day is called the Cow's Birthday. On July 7th, shepherd boys pick wild flowers and stick them on the horns of cows, which is called celebrating the cow's birthday to express their sympathy for the cowherd. The new year of 2019 has already begun. Will you be able to find your soulmate this year? Is your love luck good? Welcome to click on the "Premium Calculation" below to accurately calculate your love pattern. I wish you can find the right soulmate soon! |
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