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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.

1. Threading needles is skillful.

"Threading the needle and begging" is the earliest way of begging, which began in the Han Dynasty and flowed in later generations. Legend has it that on the night of the Qixi Festival, the girls will have a needle and thread competition under the moon, and during the needle competition, the old people in the family will prepare the needle and thread in advance, and the girls will gather together to see who can wear the needle faster. The first person to complete it shows that she has obtained the craftsmanship of the Weaver Girl, so that she can become more ingenious in doing female celebrity and textile things.

2. Worship the Seven Sisters God

In the Jiaodong area, there is a custom of worshipping the Seven Sisters God. How did the Seven Sisters come about, we all know that the Qixi Festival originated from the touching love story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, and the Weaver Girl is the youngest of the Seven Fairies, so people are used to calling the Weaver Girl "Seventh Sister", and later people molded the Seventh Sister into an image of a god, and used it for the men and women to worship and worship.

On the night of the Qixi Festival, the girls will put on their most beautiful clothes and gather together to sing to Vega: "The Emperor of Heaven and the Emperor of the Earth, I invite the Seventh Sister to heaven." Don't draw your needle, don't draw your thread, optics your seventy-two good means.

This is the popular "worship of the Seven Sisters God" in Jiaozhou.

3. Eat smart food

The food customs of the Qixi Festival are different from place to place, and they are generally called eating smart food, among which dumplings, noodles, qiaoguo, wontons and other foods for this festival are mostly used. Eat cloud noodles, this noodles must be made of dew, and eating it can get ingenuity. There are also many folk pastry shops, like to make some halva of the image of weaving women, vulgar imitation of the name, "Qiaoren" and "Qiaoshu", ** when also called "send Qiaoren", this custom has been spread in some areas to this day.

4. Needle test

This is a variant of the Qixi needle-threading begging custom, which originates from needle-threading, and is different from needle-threading, and is the prevailing Qixi festival custom in the Ming and Qing dynasties. On the afternoon of July 7th, I threw the needle.

Needle casting is also called "losing the needle". In ancient times, the folk needle throwing was generally held at noon, and the girls threw the embroidery needle into the water bowl, and the thin needle had to float on the water surface of the stocking. Under the sun, if there are shadows in the water, whether it is clouds, flowers and birds, or just the shadow of slender needles, it means that they have succeeded, and they can embroider delicate and beautiful patterns with these embroidery needles.

5. Hold the Seedlings Club.

During the Qixi Festival, some areas of Urumqi hold a ten-day "Seedlings Meeting" every year. The "Seedlings Club" is a prayer event held by simple and kind farmers, hoping for good weather and abundant crops. This kind of activity is very folk cultural heritage, to the seventh day of July, all directions, all villages and villages of the farmers will put down their work, the tide of the "Seedlings Club" held place, just like the New Year, all kinds of small businessmen and hawkers, all kinds of performances, everything, lively extraordinary.

1. There are many customs of hitting high during the Qixi Festival, and the more common ones are: receiving dew.

2. This custom is passed down from generation to generation, the dew on the night of Qixi Festival is the tears left by the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl when they meet, and the dew is wiped on the eyes or arms quietly, which can make people's eyes and hands quick, so people take the container to catch the dew slag during the Qixi Festival, so as to make a good omen.

Qixi Festival began with the worship of the ancient ancestors of the stars, he is now facing north and south, to the development of the Tang and Song dynasties has become an important traditional festival of the Chinese nation, the Lover's Sun Festival, his customs have the custom of sacrificial customs and the custom of food for the festival, as well as the Qiqiao Gong seed to seek children, etc., in the southern region of our country, then this day will be the Christmas of the seven fairies!

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?