What is the zodiac sign for people born on Chinese Valentine’s Day in 2018? What are the customs of the Qixi Festival?
Chinese Valentine's Day is a day full of romance and sweetness, and is also one of China's important traditional festivals. What is the zodiac sign for people born on Chinese Valentine’s Day in 2018? What are the customs of the Qixi Festival? The Fortune Teller website has carefully compiled detailed information about the seventh month of the lunar calendar in 2018. If you want to know about the lunar calendar content for the seventh month of 2018, please come to Mr. Shui Mo!What is the zodiac sign for people born on Chinese Valentine’s Day in 2018?2018 Chinese Valentine's Day Date:The seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar year 2018 (lunar calendar) Friday, August 17, 2018 (Gregorian calendar) Leo Birth Date: July 23 - August 22 People born on Chinese Valentine's Day in 2018 are Leo. What are the customs of the Qixi Festival?The night of the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar is the Chinese Valentine's Day (Qiqiao Festival). According to tradition, women on earth should set up a banquet in the courtyard and kneel down devoutly to worship the Weaver Girl, begging for blessings of dexterity, wisdom and exquisite craftsmanship.On the night of the Chinese Valentine's Day, women hold five-colored silk threads and nine-hole needles (or five-hole needles, seven-hole needles) arranged in a row and thread the needles continuously under the moonlight. Those who can thread all the needles quickly are said to be "deqiao". The so-called "Happy Spider Responds to Qiao" means putting some fruits and foods (mainly cantaloupe, golden melon, clever fruit, peanuts, red dates, etc.) on the fruit bowl, which is usually prepared by adults before threading the needle to pray for cleverness. After "threading the needle to pray for dexterity", everyone opens their eyes to see if there is a "happy spider" weaving a web on the fruit bowl. Whoever finds it first will have good luck. The so-called happy spider is actually a small spider the size of a grain of rice. It can often be seen on some flowers, plants and trees at the turn of summer and autumn. Occasionally, if one crawls on a person or is found in the house, it is considered a sign of good luck and is generally released very carefully. No one will kill it easily. To test the skill of acupuncture, first prepare a wash basin, place it in the patio, and pour in "mandarin duck water", that is, mix the water collected during the day and the water collected at night (at first I always thought that "mandarin duck water" was "yin and yang water"). The basin and water must be left outdoors overnight and then exposed to the sun on the second day, which is the seventh day of the seventh month. After being exposed to sunlight for half a day, a thin film is formed on the surface of the water in the basin. So take the lead (i.e. the "sewing needle") and gently place it on the water surface. The needle will not sink, and a needle shadow will appear under the water. If the needle shadow is a straight line, it means that "begging for skill" has failed. If the needle shadow forms various shapes, or is curved, or has one end thick and the other end thin, or other shapes, it means "getting skill". A few days before the Chinese Valentine's Day, people would first put a layer of soil on a small wooden board and sow corn seeds to let them grow into green shoots. Then they would place some small huts, flowers and trees on it to make it look like a small village of farmers. This is called "shell board". Or they could soak mung beans, red beans, wheat, etc. in a porcelain bowl and wait for them to grow inch-long sprouts. Then they would tie them into a bundle with red or blue silk ropes. This is called "seeding", also known as "five-birth pot" or "flower pot". 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. 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." To celebrate the ox’s birthday, children would pick wild flowers and hang them on the ox’s horns on the Chinese Valentine’s Day, which is also called “celebrating the ox’s birthday.” According to legend, after the Queen Mother of the West separated the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl with the Milky Way, the old cow asked the Cowherd to peel off its skin so that the Cowherd could cross the Milky Way to see the Weaver Girl, so the old cow could ride on its skin to see the Weaver Girl. In order to commemorate the old cow’s sacrificial spirit, people have the custom of “celebrating the cow’s birthday”. Worshiping "Mohele" Mohelo is a children's toy used for the Chinese Valentine's Day in the old days. It is a small clay doll, most of which are wearing a lotus leaf half-sleeve dress and holding a lotus leaf. Worship the Weaver Girl "Worshiping the Weaver Girl" is purely a matter for young girls and young women. Most of them make appointments with their friends or neighbors in advance to host the event together with five or six people, or as many as ten people. The ceremony was held by setting up a table under the moonlight, on which were placed tea, wine, fruits, five seeds (longan, red dates, hazelnuts, peanuts, melon seeds) and other offerings; there were also a few flowers tied with red paper and inserted in a vase, and a small incense burner was placed in front of the flowers. Then, the young women and girls who had agreed to participate in the worship of the Weaver Girl fasted for a day, bathed, and came to the host's house on time. After burning incense and praying in front of the table, everyone sat around the table together, eating peanuts and melon seeds, facing the Weaver Girl constellation, and silently reciting their thoughts. For example, young girls who hope to be beautiful or marry a good husband, and young women who hope to have a baby soon, can pray silently to the Vega. We played until midnight. It is said that July 7th is Kuixing’s birthday. Kuixing is the god of literature, and scholars who want to achieve fame and success particularly venerate Kuixing, so they must worship him on the Qixi Festival, praying for his blessing for good luck in the exam. Among the festive foods for the Chinese Valentine 's Day, Qiaoguo is the most famous. Qiaoguo, also known as "Qiqiao Fruit", comes in many styles. The main ingredients are oil flour and molasses. |
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