When is Chinese Valentine's Day? What are the customs and practices of Chinese Valentine's Day?
Introduction: Chinese Valentine's Day is an important day in our country, and the specific time of Chinese Valentine's Day is different. So when is the Chinese Valentine's Day and what are the customs of Chinese Valentine's Day? Every day has good and bad days, auspicious and inauspicious days. If you want to know more about the auspicious and inauspicious days in the seventh month of the lunar calendar in 2018, please pay attention to the articles related to the seventh month of the lunar calendar in 2018 compiled by the Fortune Teller website!What date is Chinese Valentine’s Day?The seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar is the Chinese Valentine's Day, also known as the Qiqiao Festival, the Seven Qiao Festival or the Seven Sisters' Birthday.Qixi Festival originated in the Han Dynasty and is a traditional cultural festival popular in China and other countries in the Chinese character cultural circle. According to legend, on the night of the seventh or sixth day of the seventh lunar month, women would beg the Weaver Girl for wisdom and ingenuity in the courtyard, hence the name "begging for cleverness." It originated from the worship of nature and women threading needles to pray for dexterity, and was later endowed with the legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, making it a festival symbolizing love. On the Chinese Valentine's Day, women have many customs such as threading needles to beg for dexterity, praying for good fortune, wealth and longevity, worshiping the Seven Sisters, displaying flowers and fruits, and doing needlework (gōng). These customs have influenced countries in the Chinese character cultural circle, such as Japan, the Korean Peninsula, and Vietnam. On May 20, 2006, the Chinese Valentine's Day was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list by the State Council of the People's Republic of China. What are the customs and traditions of the Chinese Valentine’s Day?Threading a needle to pray for dexterity <br /> The night of the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar is the Qixi Festival (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 " the spider responds to the call for cleverness" is to put some fruits and vegetables (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 beg 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. Test your skill by throwing a needle<br /> First prepare a basin, place it in the courtyard, 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". Planting for a child <br /> A few days before the Chinese Valentine's Day, a layer of soil is first applied on a small wooden board, and corn seeds are sown to grow green seedlings. Then some small huts, flowers and trees are placed on it to make it look like a small village of farmers. This is called "shell board". Alternatively, mung beans, red beans, wheat, etc. are soaked in a porcelain bowl and waited for them to grow inch-long buds. Then they are tied into a bundle with red and blue silk ropes. This is called "planting for a child", also known as "five-birth basin" or "flower basin". 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." |
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