What are the customs of the Qixi Festival, and what are the customs of the Qixi Festival

In ancient times, the seventh month of the lunar calendar coincided with the time when women were weaving and making clothes, so various cultural and recreational activities of the Qixi Festival were slowly formed.

Traditional Tanabata activities include: threading needles in front of the moon, planting potted corn, drying clothes and books, washing hair and dyeing nails, etc., and the main participants are unmarried girls, and some activities are even forbidden to married people. On the day of the Qixi Festival, the begging activity is a national activity in our country, that is, to pray for the Weaver Girl to let herself have more skills, especially the girls will pray for the Weaver Girl to make themselves dexterous, of course, there may be some differences in the activities in each region.

Qixi Festival, also known as Qiqiao Festival, Qijie Festival, Daughter's Festival, Qiqiao Festival, Qiniang Meeting, Qixi Festival, Ox Bull Po Day, Qiaoxi, etc., is a traditional Chinese folk festival. The Qixi Festival is derived from the worship of the stars, which is the birthday of the Seven Sisters in the traditional sense, and is called "Qixi Festival" because the worship of the "Seven Sisters" is held on the seventh night of July.

On this day, people will wash their combing tools, wash their hair, dry books, and dry clothes. On the day of Qixi Festival, people will cut off the colored ropes tied on the wrists and ankles of the previous Dragon Boat Festival, and then put them on the roof and tie them, thinking of building a magpie bridge for the Cowherd and them to help the two of them meet.

The custom of the Qixi Festival is to dig wells, and people will dig wells during Qixi Festival. Because people in rural areas drink water, they basically use well water, so well water is very important for them, and in the northern plateaus, such as Shanxi, Shaanxi and other places, people especially rely on wells for life.

The custom of Qixi Festival eats Qiaoguo, on this day, people will definitely eat a delicacy, this delicacy is Qiaoguo, this thing is actually a kind of dim sum, which is made of flour, rice flour and sugar, and after frying it, it becomes crispy on the outside and tender on the inside.

For example, the tofu used to make Qiaoguo can only use the old kind of tofu, and the old tofu must be broken evenly into the flour, so that the fried Qiaoguo will have a crispy texture. And Qiaoguo, in fact, is the same as the chocolate given to the person you like on Valentine's Day in the West, on this day, people will give Qiaoguo to the person you like.

In order to express their hearts, this is also a way for lovers to express their love, so Qiaoguo has become a symbol of love, and the origin of Qiaoguo is said to be that a girl named Xiaoxiao in ancient times would make some small snacks of different shapes on the day of Qixi Festival.

We all know the love story of the Cowherd and Weaver Girl on the Qixi Festival, but we don't know what customs and habits this festival has, so what are its customs and habits?

The customs of the Qixi Festival include: moon worship, marriage and childbirth, begging, receiving dew, incense bridge meeting, etc.

Qixi Festival is the meeting of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, and the day is the day to pray for love, and this day is Valentine's Day in China.

Do you know what customs and habits are used during the Qixi Festival?

The customs of the Chinese Qixi Festival.

What are the customs? There are no customs on the Qixi Festival, and the Qixi Festival seems to be the Chinese Valentine's Day, right?

1 Qixi Festival has left a lot of customs since ancient times, such as wearing needles and begging for skill, happy spiders should be skillful, throwing needles to test skill, planting and asking for children, celebrating the birthday of cattle, drying books and clothes for bad deeds, offering "grinding and drinking", worshipping Weaver Girl, worshiping Kuixing, eating Qiaoguo and other traditional customs.

2. Qixi Valentine's Day is a lunar festival.

Qixi Valentine's Day is a traditional festival that has continued since ancient times, in ancient times, the lunar calendar was used to see the day, and the modern era has also continued the habit of watching the lunar calendar on traditional festivals, some of the more important traditional festivals, such as the Spring Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Chongyang Festival and other festivals are established in accordance with the lunar calendar, and Qixi Festival is an ancient festival is no exception.

3 This year's seventh day of the seventh lunar month is August 17, 2018.

The Qixi Festival has a long culture and history, from the point of view of begging, it entrusts women's expectations for life, and from the perspective of allusions and historical stories, it entrusts the loyalty and yearning of the majority of working people for beautiful love.

4 Qixi Festival has the legend of the Cowherd and Weaver Girl meeting, which is also the ** of the Qixi Festival, the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl meet during the Qixi Festival, if the rooster does not crow, then the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl do not need to separate, so there is a tradition of killing the rooster to eat on the day of the Qixi Festival, in order to pray that the lover will eventually become a family.

Flower melon is only carved on the melon and fruit, there are strange flowers and birds, or pairs of couples, there are also auspicious patterns or peculiar reliefs, in the Qixi Festival to eat such a flower melon, may be contaminated with other people's ingenuity, let yourself also become wise, this is also one of the meanings of eating flower melon on the Qixi Festival.

The main ingredients of Jiangmi noodles are glutinous rice, leased bridge bean flour, malt, sugar water, etc., all of which are delicate, soft and delicious foods, implying sweet love.

Production method: use glutinous rice to add soybean flour, flour, malt, sugar water, cut and then cut and roll out after proofing, cut the strips and knead them into round strips, and then put them in the oil pan to fry, fry them until golden brown, and then out of the pot, sprinkle some white sugar on them and let them cool to eat.

Dumplings are a kind of food that Chinese love very much, especially in the northern region, but whenever there is an important day will like to eat dumplings, the breath festival will put a lot of things in the dumplings, such as copper money, needles, red dates, guiyuan and other food, when eating dumplings to eat copper money talent, eat needle skill, eat red dates love Ruyi, eat Guiyuan family perfection.

There are many customs of the Qixi Festival, such as: Xiangqiao Meeting, receiving dew, worshiping the Seventh Sister, Douqiao, begging for marriage, swimming in the Seventh Sister Water, storing Qixi water, Qiqiao Tribute Case, worshiping the Cowherd, dyeing nails, stargazing on the Qixi Festival, listening to whispers, water purification and video, knotting red head ropes, girl shampooing, drying books and clothes, ligating Qiaogu, playing grinding and drinking, etc.

1. Xiangqiao Club. In Yixing, Jiangsu, there is a custom of Qixi Xiangqiao. Every year on Qixi Festival, people come to participate in the construction of incense bridges.

The so-called incense bridge is a bridge with a length of four or five meters and a width of about half a meter made of various thick and long incense sticks (incense sticks wrapped in paper), which is equipped with a railing and tied with five-color threads on the railing. At night, people worship the double star Min lead, beg for good fortune, and then incinerate the incense bridge, symbolizing that the double star has crossed the incense bridge and happily meet. This incense bridge is derived from the legend of the legendary Magpie Bridge.

2. Dew. In rural Zhejiang, the custom of using a basin to catch dew is popular. Legend has it that the dew during the Qixi Festival is the tears of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl when they meet, and if they are wiped on the eyes and hands, they can make people's eyes and hands quick.

3. Fighting skill. Qixi Douqiao, the "Bu Qiao" method to judge the clumsiness of the Douqiao, mainly includes several forms such as "Needle Piercing" Laughing Song, "Joy Spider Yingqiao", "Needle Piercing the Moon", "Losing Qiao", "Lan Ye Douqiao" and "Throwing Needle Skill" and so on.

4. Seed life and seek children. Han festival customs, a few days before the Qixi Festival, first put a layer of soil on the small wooden board, sow the seeds of corn, let it give birth to green and tender seedlings, and then put some small thatched huts, flowers and trees on it, make the shape of the small village of the farmhouse, called "shell board", or soak mung beans, adzuki beans, wheat, etc. in the magnetic bowl, wait for it to grow the buds of the inch, and then tie it into a bunch with red and blue silk ropes, called "seeding", also called "five life pots" or "raw flower pots".

The customs of the Qixi Festival are: Xiangqiao Meeting, receiving dew, worshiping the Seventh Sister, Douqiao, begging for marriage, swimming in the Seventh Sister Water, planting and begging for children, storing Qixi water, celebrating the birthday of the cow, Qiqiao Tribute Case, welcoming immortals, worshiping God, worshiping the Cowherd, worshiping Kuixing, worshipping the bed mother, dyeing nails, stargazing on Qixi Festival, listening to whispers, water purification video, knotting red head rope, girl shampooing, drying books and clothes, ligating Qiaogu, playing grinding and drinking, etc.

Qixi Festival, also known as Qiqiao Festival, Qijie Festival, Daughter's Festival, Slow Douyin Begging Festival, Qiniang Meeting, Qixi Festival, Ox Bull Po Day, Qiaoxi, etc., is a traditional Chinese folk festival.

The "Cowherd and Weaver Girl" of Qixi Festival ** in people's worship of natural celestial phenomena, according to legend, every year on the seventh day of July, the Cowherd and Weaver Girl will meet at the magpie bridge in the sky.

Qixi Festival is also a festival to worship the Seventh Sister, the Seventh Sister (Vega) is the weaver of clouds, disturbing the hall of the textile industry, is the protector of lovers, women, children, July 7 is the birthday of the Seventh Sister.

The seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar is the annual Qixi Festival, and in ancient times, the activities of the Qiqiao Festival were mainly based on single women begging for wisdom from Vega, so this day is also called the "Qiqiao Festival". For the Qixi Festival, I believe many people are already familiar with it, the Qixi Festival is also one of the traditional festivals in China, which has a long history since ancient times. On the day of the Qixi Festival, many customs and cultures have also been formed, and many friends are not necessarily clear about these customs and cultures, so let's take a look at what customs are there during the Qixi Festival.

1. Threading needles is skillful

On the night of the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, the Qixi Festival (Qiqiao Festival), according to tradition, mortal women should make a feast in front of the court, bow down to Vega and beg for blessing their ingenuity, wisdom and exquisite female craftsmanship. On the night of Qixi Festival, the woman holds the five-color silk thread and the nine-hole needle (or five-hole needle, seven-hole needle) in a continuous row to take advantage of the moonlight to continuously thread the needle and lead the thread, and the person who passes through the thread quickly is called "Deqiao".

2. Seed life and seek children

Before the festival, a number of plants, such as wheat, mung beans, adzuki beans, peas, etc., are soaked in water in a vessel, and after sprouting a few inches, they are tied up with red and blue colored threads on the day of Qixi Festival, as a symbol of blessing for children. Various images are also made of wax and floated on the water.

3. Celebrate the birthday of the cow

Children will pick wildflowers and hang them on the horns of the ox on the day of Tanabata Festival, also known as "congratulating the cow's birthday". Because legend has it that after the Queen Mother of the West used the Tianhe to separate the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, Lao Niu asked the Cowherd to cut off his skin and drive its cowhide to meet the Weaver Girl in order to let the Cowherd cross the Tianhe River. In order to commemorate the sacrificial spirit of the old cow, people have the custom of "celebrating the birthday of the cow".

4. Dry books and clothes

Yang Yuan Yuan Shu records that there is a liquid pool in the palace of Jianzhang of the Han Dynasty, and there is a drying pavilion of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty in the west of the pond, and every seventh day of the seventh month, the palace maid must go upstairs to dry clothes. This should be the origin of Tanabata clothes.

5. Worship the Weaver Girl

The customs of the Han nationality are held every year during the Qixi Festival. Han folklore legend Weaver Girl is a beautiful, intelligent, ingenious fairy, mortal women begged her for wisdom and ingenuity on this night, and also inevitably asked her for a happy marriage, which conveyed the Han working people's yearning for a happy life and simple aesthetic taste.

6. Bai Kuixing

The seventh day of the seventh lunar month is also known as "Kuixing's birthday". "Kui Xing" is the name of the Big Dipper. The Han folk call it "Kuixing Lord Wenshi". Scholars in eastern Fujian revere Kuixing, second only to Confucius, and have the custom of "worshipping Kuixing" in "Qixi Festival".

7. Eat Qiaoguo

The seventh day of the seventh lunar month is the traditional Qixi Festival in China. In order to "beg Qiao", there is a custom of eating Qiaoguo on the seventh day of July. Qiaoguo is not actually a fruit, but an oily snack made from flour or rice flour.