What did you do in the ancient Qixi Festival? What are the activities?

In ancient times, the begging festival mainly had activities such as "threading needles and begging for skill", "liking spiders and coincidental" and "throwing needles to get tricks".

1. Threading needles is skillful.

It is the earliest way of begging, which began in the Han Dynasty and has been passed down to later generations. The night of the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, the Qixi Festival (Qiqiao Festival), is the most important festival for young women in ancient China. Yuan Tao Zongyi's "Yuan's Court Record" said:

Nine leading platforms, the place of Qixi begging. At the end of the day, the palace maid took the stage to wear the nine-tailed needle with colorful silk, the first to finish is clever, the late finish is called the loss of the clever, each to contribute to the gift of the clever. ”

That is, every night of the "Qixi Festival", women have to thread needles and threads (women hold five-color silk threads and continuous arrangement of nine-hole needles or five-hole needles, seven-hole needles take advantage of the moonlight to continuously thread needles and threads, and those who quickly pass through all the threads are called "Deqiao"). Put down the melons and fruits, and beg that you can be as clever as the fairy in the sky and do good needlework.

2. Spiders should be coincidental.

Wang Renyu of the fifth dynasty said in "The Remains of Kaiyuan Tianbao": "On July 7, each caught a spider in a small box, until dawn opened; Seeing the cobwebs as dense is a coincidence. The secret ones have many clever words, and the rare ones have few clever words.

The people will follow suit". So-called"Joy spider coincidence", that is, some melon and fruit foods (mainly melons, **melons, qiaoguo, peanuts, red dates, etc.) are placed on the fruit pot, which is usually prepared by adults before threading the needle.

Threading the needle is ingenious"After that, everyone opened their eyes to see if there was anything on the fruit pot"Hi spider"In the net, whoever discovers it first will be lucky. But it is not easy to have the traces of this kind of happy spider on the fruit pot, and sometimes in order to get the melons and fruits early, one of the children will always secretly catch one and put it on the fruit pot.

Adults actually know that the one who opens one eye and closes the other, is in the child"Discover"In the cheers of the happy spider, he said while distributing the melons and fruits to everyone's hands"Eat, eat, every year, every year. "

3. 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.

Needle test"It is to prepare a basin first, put it in the patio, and pour it in"Mandarin duck water", that is, mixing water taken during the day with water taken at night. However, it is often done by mixing river water and well water and pouring it into the basin, and the basin and water should be left in the open air overnight, and then the sun will be exposed to the sun during the day on the seventh day of the seventh month of the seventh month, and it will be enough to reach noon or afternoon"Ingenuity"Finish.

It turns out that the water in the basin, after half a day of sunlight, the surface is vaguely formed a film, so take the lead, gently flat on the water surface, the needle will not sink, under the water, there will be a needle shadow, if the needle shadow is a straight one, that is"Begging"Failure, if the shadow of the needle forms various shapes, or curved, or thick at one end, thin at the other, or other shapes, it is"Coincidentally"。

Every year, the seventh day of the seventh lunar month is the traditional festival of the Han nationality in China. Because the main participants of this day's activities are young girls, and the content of the festival activities is mainly begging, so people call this day "Qiqiao Festival" or "Girl's Day" and "Daughter's Day". The Qixi Festival is one of the most romantic festivals in China's traditional festivals, and it is also the day that girls attach the most importance to in the past.

On this night, the women thread needles and beggars, pray for Fu Lu Shou activities, worship the Seventh Sister, the ceremony is pious and grand, display flowers and fruits, female red, all kinds of furniture, utensils are exquisite and small, lovely. On May 20, 2006, the Qixi Festival was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list. It is now also considered "Chinese Valentine's Day".

"Tanabata" was the earliest in people's worship of nature. Judging from historical documents, at least three or four thousand years ago, with people's understanding of astronomy and the emergence of textile technology, there were records about Altair and Vega.

There is no custom here, if you are interested, you can go under the vine and listen to them whisper

The festival is this day, but in countless daily lives I am always infected by the subtlety of women in ancient times, I always like 7 when I drink water and soak dates, and I always send 7 apples and oranges, 7 should be a magic number, you see the 7 lines of the Big Dipper, and the Vega constellation is 7 stars.

The custom in my hometown is that 7 girls make vegetarian dumplings, 7 of which contain items that everyone hopes or has a meaning, needlework represents skill, and coins represent wealth, which are different. It's a shame that there hasn't been a day like that for almost 10 years, so I miss it and thank you for mentioning it.

To compete to be a female celebrity, compare kung fu.

In ancient times, Qixi was indeed closely related to the legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, but it also had the title of "Daughter's Festival". To put it simply, Tanabata is a large-scale women's blessing festival. So what are the activities in the Qixi Festival?

Trick through the needle. Ge Hong's "Xijing Miscellaneous Records" of the Eastern Jin Dynasty has a record that "Han Cai women often wear seven-hole needles in the placket on the seventh day of July, and everyone is accustomed to it", which is the earliest record of begging in ancient documents.

Joy spider coincidenceCatch the spider and put it in the box, and look at it the next day, if the round web is knotted, it means that it is more clever, and if not, it is considered to be less clever.

Needle testThrow the needle into the water and look at the shadow of the needle at the bottom of the water, if it forms shoes, birds and beasts, etc., it will succeed, if the shadow is as thick as a hammer and as thin as a hair, it will fail.

It seems that in ancient times, people's activities were also colorful!