What does the Qiqiao Festival mean?

Question 1: What does begging for cleverness mean? The seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar is commonly known as "Qixi Festival", also known as "Daughter's Day" and "Girl's Day". It is the day when the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl met on the Magpie Bridge across the "Tianhe" in the legend. In the past, the main folk activity of Qixi Festival was begging for skill. The so-called begging for skill means begging for a pair of skillful hands from the Weaver Girl. The most common way to beg for skill is to thread a needle through the moon. If the needle passes through it, it is called skill. This custom was most popular in the Tang and Song Dynasties.

The most common custom of the Chinese Valentine's Day is the various begging activities carried out by girls on the night of the seventh day of July.

In the Han Dynasty, women put a small spider (called fruit in ancient times) in a box, and the density of its web was a sign of clumsiness. In the Tang Dynasty, spiders were placed on melons. In the Song and Yuan Dynasties, the shadow of a needle in the water was seen as a sign of skill, and if it is long and thin, it is skillful, and if it is scattered, it is clumsy.

Nowadays, most of the ways of begging for skill are girls threading needles and threads to test skill, making small items to compete with skill, and putting them on the table. Some people beg for their melons and fruits, and the ways of begging are different in different regions, and each has its own fun.

The begging activities in Jinan, Huimin, Gaoqing and other places in Shandong are very simple. They just display the fruits and beg for tricks. If a spider spins a web on the fruits, it means begging for tricks. The custom of eating Qiaoqiao rice and begging for Qiaoqiao in Juancheng, Caoxian, Pingyuan and other places is very interesting: seven good girls gather grain and vegetables to make dumplings, and wrap a copper coin, a needle and a red date into three dumplings respectively. , after the begging activity, they gathered together to eat dumplings. It is said that those who eat money will be blessed, those who eat needles will be skillful, and those who eat dates will marry early.

In some places, the Qiqiao Festival activities are of a competitive nature, similar to the ancient custom of fighting for skill. In modern times, there is the custom of threading needles, steaming Qiao Ni Ni, baking Qiao fruits, and in some places making Qiao sprout soup. Generally, on the first day of July, the grains are soaked in water to germinate. On the Chinese Valentine's Day, the sprouts are cut to make soup. Children in this area pay special attention to it. Eating Qiao buds, as well as decorations made in the form of dough sculptures, paper-cuts, colorful embroideries, etc. are the evolution of the custom of fighting Qiao. The shepherd boys will pick wild flowers and hang them on the horns of cows on the Chinese Valentine's Day, which is called "Congratulations on the Cow's Birthday" (legend has it that Chinese Valentine's Day is the birthday of the cow).

In Zhucheng, Tengzhou and Zoucheng areas, the rain on Chinese Valentine's Day is called "Lovesickness Rain" or "Lovesickness Tears" because it is caused by the meeting of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl. It is said in Jiaodong, southwestern Shandong and other places that there are very few magpies on this day, and they all go to the sky to build magpie bridges.

There are still similar customs of begging for clever things in various parts of Zhejiang today. For example, in Hangzhou, Ningbo, Wenzhou and other places, on this day, flour is used to make various small shapes, which are fried in oil and called "Qiaoguo". Qiaoguo, lotus root, white lotus root, red water chestnut, etc. are displayed in the courtyard at night. The girl threads a needle against the moon to pray to the Weaver Girl for skill, or to catch a spider and put it in a box. If the box is opened the next day and the web has been spun, it is called a skill.

In rural areas of Shaoxing, there will be many girls secretly hiding under the lush pumpkin sheds on this night. In the dead of night, if you can hear the whispers of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl when they meet, this girl who is about to be married will In the future, you will be able to get this undying love for a thousand years.

In order to express people’s wish that the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl can live a beautiful and happy family life every day, in Jinhua, Zhejiang, every family will kill a chicken on July 7th, which means that on this night the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl will meet, if If there is no rooster to crow, they will never be separated.

In western Guangxi, it is said that on the morning of July 7th, fairies will come down to earth to take a bath. Drinking the bath water can ward off evil spirits, cure diseases and prolong life. This water is called "Double Seven Waters". When the cock crows on this day, people rush to the river to get water. After getting it back, they put it in new jars for future use.

The Qiqiao Festival in Guangzhou is unique. Before the festival, girls prepare various kinds of fancy gadgets using colored paper, grass, strings, etc., and also use cereal seeds and mung beans. Put it into a small box and soak it in water to make it germinate. When the buds grow to more than two inches long, they are used to worship gods, which are called "worshiping grass" and "worshiping vegetables". Starting from the sixth night to the seventh night of the Lunar New Year, for two consecutive nights, the girls put on new clothes and new jewelry. After everything was arranged, they burned incense and lit candles and knelt down to the stars, which was called "Welcoming the Immortals". On the fifth watch, you have to pray seven times in a row.

After worshiping the immortals, the girls hold colored threads and thread them through the needle holes in front of the lamp shadow. Those who can pass through seven needle holes in one breath are called skillful and are called skillful hands. Those who cannot pass through seven needle holes are called skillful hands. A pinhole is called losing skill. After Chinese Valentine's Day, girls give each other small crafts and toys they made to show friendship.

In Fujian, during the Chinese Valentine's Day, the Weaver Girl is asked to appreciate and taste the fruits in order to pray for her blessing for a good harvest in the coming year. Offerings include tea, wine, fresh fruits, five seeds (longan, red dates, hazelnuts, peanuts, melon seeds), flowers and pollen for women's cosmetics, and an incense burner. Usually after fasting and bathing, everyone takes turns to burn incense and worship at the altar table and pray silently for their wishes. Women not only beg for luck, but also beg for children, longevity, beauty and love. Afterwards, everyone ate fruits, drank tea, chatted, and played begging... >>

Question 2: What does Chinese Valentine's Day mean? In our country, on the night of the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, the weather is warm and the vegetation is warm. Fragrance, this is what people commonly call the Qixi Festival, and some people call it the "Qiqiao Festival" or "Daughter's Day". This is the most romantic festival among the traditional Chinese festivals, and it was also the day that girls paid most attention to in the past.

On a clear night in summer and autumn, stars shine in the sky, and a vast white Milky Way stretches across the north and south. There is a shining star on each of the east and west banks of the river, facing each other across the river, far away. They are Altair and Vega.

It is a folk custom to sit and watch the Altair and the Vega on the Chinese Valentine's Day. According to legend, this night of the year is when the Weaver and the Cowherd meet on the Magpie Bridge. The Weaver Girl is a beautiful, intelligent and ingenious fairy. On this night, mortal women beg her for wisdom and skill, as well as a happy marriage. Therefore, the seventh day of the seventh lunar month is also called the Qi Qiao Festival.

People say that on the night of the Chinese Valentine's Day, if you look up, you can see the Milky Way meeting of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, or you can overhear the loving words of the two people when they meet in the sky under the fruit stand.

On this romantic night, the girls laid out seasonal fruits and vegetables in front of the bright moon in the sky, worshiped the sky, and begged the goddess in the sky to give them intelligent hearts and dexterous hands. Her knitting skills are skillful, and she also begs for love and marriage. In the past, marriage was a lifelong event for women that determined whether they would be happy or not. Therefore, countless loving men and women in the world would spend this evening, in the quiet of the night, praying to the stars for a happy marriage.

Question 3: What does begging for skillful means in the Qiqiao Festival? _Thank you for the detailed explanation. Begging for cleverness is an old custom. On the night of the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, girls wearing new clothes beg for wisdom from Vega in the courtyard, which is called "begging for cleverness".

Question 4: What does the Qiqiao Festival refer to? Qiqiao is an old custom. On the night of July 7th of the lunar calendar, girls in new clothes beg for wisdom from Vega in the courtyard, which is called "Qiqiao".

Question 5: What does begging for cleverness mean? Tang - Lin Jie - begging for cleverness

Era: Tang Dynasty

Author: Lin Jie (831-847) Zi Zhizhou , a native of Fujian,

Title: Qiao Qiao①

Content:

Watch the blue sky tonight on Chinese Valentine's Day,

The Morning Cow and the Weaver Girl crossing the river bridge. Ding Every family begs for tricks and looks at the autumn moon,

Wearing tens of thousands of red silk threads.

Notes:

① Qi Qiao: an ancient festival on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, also known as Qixi Festival.

Meaning:

The annual Chinese Valentine's Day is here again, and the Morning Glory and the Weaver Girl once again cross the Magpie Bridge to meet each other. People in every house couldn't help but look up at the vast sky, and skilled women from house to house were wearing red silk, at least tens of thousands of them.

Question 6: What does "Qiqiao" mean? According to the old custom, on the night of July 7th (or the night of July 6th) of the lunar calendar, girls wearing new clothes begged Vega for wisdom in the courtyard, which was called "begging for cleverness". Most of the ways of begging for skills are that girls go through needlework to test their skills, make small items to compete with others, and put some fruits on the table to beg for skills. The methods of begging for skills are different in different regions, and each has its own interest. Modern needlework, steamed Qiao Qiao buns, baked Qiao Qiao fruits, raw Qiao buds, and decorations made in the form of dough sculptures, paper-cutting, colorful embroidery, etc. are also extensions of the custom of begging for Qiao Qiao.

Question 7: What does it mean to beg for cleverness? Hello friends, I am happy to answer your questions.

The "end" here can be interpreted as "complete, light" and other meanings.

The complete meaning of the two sentences is: Every household enjoys the autumn moon during the Qixi Festival (Qixi Festival). Countless girls hold needles and draw countless red threads one by one to pray for dexterity and peace. blessing.

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Question 8: Chinese Valentine's Day is also called Qiao Qiao Festival. What does it mean that women in the world want to What does begging mean? Why is Qixi Festival also called "begging for cleverness"? It is a folk custom to sit and watch the Altair and the Vega on the Chinese Valentine's Day. According to legend, on this night every year, it is the time when the Weaver and the Cowherd meet on the Magpie Bridge. Altair and Vega. Vega is a beautiful, intelligent, and ingenious fairy. Women in the world beg her for wisdom and skills on this night, and indispensably ask her for a happy marriage. Therefore, the seventh day of the seventh lunar month is also called Qiao Qiao Festival. What did ancient women do on Qixi Festival? Threading a Needle and Begging for Skills This is the earliest way of begging for skills, which started in the Han Dynasty and spread to later generations. "Miscellaneous Notes of Xijing" says: "The colorful girls of the Han Dynasty often pierced the seven-hole needle in the Kaijin Tower on July 7th, and people practiced it." Liang Zongmou of the Southern Dynasties "Jingchu Years' Notes" said: "July 7th is the evening The women of the Qi Dynasty used gold and silver stones as needles to thread the needles through seven holes. "Wang Renyu of the Five Dynasties" "Kaiyuan Tianbao Legacy" said: "On Qixi Festival, the palace is built with brocade, a hundred feet high, which can accommodate dozens of people. Melons and fruits are cooked with wine, and seats are set up to worship the cow girl. Two stars, each with a nine-hole needle and five colored threads, are pierced towards the moon. The one who passes by will be a lucky prince, and the music of the Qing Dynasty will be played, and the banquet will be celebrated in all the local people's homes. " said: "Jiuyin Terrace is a place for begging for luck on Chinese Valentine's Day. On the evening of the evening, the palace maids go up on the stage to thread the nine-tailed needle with colorful silk. Those who finish it first are said to have gained luck, and those who finish it late are said to have lost luck. Each of them contributes money to give to the one who gets luck." Happy Spider Yingqiao This is also an earlier way of begging for skills. Its custom is slightly later than threading needles and begging for skills, and it roughly started in the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

Liang Zongmao of the Southern Dynasty said in "The Chronicles of Jingchu Years": "It was evening, and melons and fruits were placed in the courtyard to beg for luck. If there were happy nets on the melons, they would be lucky." Wang Renyu of the Five Dynasties said in "The Legacy of Kaiyuan Tianbao": "July 7 Each one catches spiders in small boxes until they open at dawn; if the spider webs are dense, they will be clever. Those who are secret will be clever, and those who are sparse will be clever. This is also the case among the people. On the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, "put a small spider inside the egg and look at it the next day. If the web is round, it is called a coincidence." Song Zhoumi's "Qian Chun Sui Sui Ji" said: "Put the small spider inside and wait for the web to be built. "How long does it take to get a coincidence by how dense it is?" Ming Tian Rucheng said in "The Joy of Xi Chao" that on Chinese Valentine's Day, "Put a spider in a small box, and watch the density of its web the next morning to see how much it is." This shows that the method of testing cleverness in the past dynasties. Differently, the Southern and Northern Dynasties looked at the presence or absence of the net, the Tang Dynasty looked at the denseness of the net, and the Song Dynasty looked at the roundness of the net. Later generations mostly followed the customs of the Tang Dynasty. Throwing a Needle to Test Skills This is a variant of the Chinese Valentine's Day custom of needlework and begging for skills. It originates from needlework but is different from needlework. It is a popular Chinese Valentine's Day custom in the Ming and Qing dynasties. Liu Tong and Yu Yizheng of the Ming Dynasty wrote in their "Scenery of the Imperial Capital": "On the afternoon of July 7th, a skillful needle was thrown. A woman was exposed to a lot of water in the middle of the day, and after a while, the water film formed on her face. When the embroidery needle was thrown into it, it floated, and she looked at the bottom of the water. "Needle shadow. If there are shadows of clouds, flowers, heads, birds, and beasts, or shadows of shoes and scissors, it is called begging for skill. The shadow is as thick as a hammer, as thin as silk, and as straight as a shaft of wax." This is a sign of clumsiness. "Zhili Zhishu" also says that in Liangxiang County (today's southwest of Beijing), "On July 7, women beg for skills, throw needles into the water, use the shadow of the sun to check their workmanship, and at night they are still begging for skills from the Weaver Girl." Please refer to Yu Minzhong's " "Rixia Jiuwen Kao" quoted "Wanshu Miscellaneous Notes" as saying: "On July 7th, the women of Yandu poured bowls of water into the sun, each dropped a small needle to float on the water surface, and slowly looked at the shadow of the sun on the bottom of the water. Some were scattered like flowers, or moved like clouds, It is as thin as a thread and as thick as a cone, because of the skill of divination. "In the old custom of seeking children by seeding, a few days before Chinese Valentine's Day, one would first spread a layer of soil on a small wooden board and sow corn seeds so that they would grow green. Take the young seedlings and put some small thatched houses, flowers and trees on them to make it look like a small village in a farmhouse, which is called a "shell board". Or you can soak mung beans, adzuki beans, wheat, etc. in a magnetic bowl and wait until it grows an inch. The buds are then tied into a bunch with red and blue silk ropes, which are called "seeds", also called "five-life pots" or "flower pots". It is also called "Pao Qiao" in various parts of the south, and the bean sprouts that grow are called Qiao Ya. They even replace needles with Qiao sprouts and throw them on the water to beg for Qiao. Various figures are also made of wax, such as the characters in the story of Cowherd and Weaver Girl, or the shapes of vultures, mandarin ducks, and other animals, and placed on the water to float, which is called "floating on water." There are also wax baby dolls that women buy and float at home, thinking they are auspicious for having a child, and they are called "huasheng". Enshrining "Mohele" Mohele is a children's plaything of the Chinese Valentine's Day in the old days, a small clay doll. Its image is mostly a half-armed dress with a lotus leaf and a lotus leaf in its hand. Every year on July 7th, in Kaifeng's "Panlou Street, the tiles outside Dongsong Gate, the tiles outside Zhouxiliang Gate, the North Gate, South Zhuquemen Street and Maxing Street all sell grinding and drinking music. Small plastic clay ears." In fact, the grinding music made later in the Song Dynasty was no longer a small clay doll. On the contrary, it became more and more refined. The size and posture of Mohele vary. The largest one is as high as three feet, which is as high as a real child. The materials used include carved ivory or carved incense from Longyan Buddha's hand... >>

Question 9: What does Chinese Valentine's Day mean? Qixi Festival In China, the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar is commonly known as the Qixi Festival. Some people also call it the "Qiqiao Festival", "Seven Bridges Festival", "Daughter's Day" or "Qixi Valentine's Day". This is the most romantic festival among traditional Chinese festivals, and it was also the day that girls valued most in the past. On a clear summer and autumn night, stars shine in the sky, and a vast white Milky Way stretches across the north and south like a flyover. On the east and west banks of the river, there is a shining star on each side. Looking across the river, facing each other from a distance, they are Altair and Altair. Vega. It is a folk custom to sit and watch the Altair and the Vega on the Chinese Valentine's Day. According to legend, on this night every year, it is the time when the Weaver and the Cowherd meet on the Magpie Bridge. The Weaver Girl is a beautiful, intelligent and ingenious fairy. On this night, mortal women beg her for wisdom and skill, as well as a happy marriage. Therefore, the seventh day of the seventh lunar month is also called the Qi Qiao Festival. Legend of Chinese Valentine's Day This is a very beautiful love story that has been passed down through the ages and has become one of the four major folk love legends in our country. Legend has it that there is Vega and Altair in the sky. The Weaver Girl and the Morning Glory are in love with each other and are in love with each other. However, the laws of heaven do not allow men to have sex with women or fall in love privately. The Weaver Girl was the granddaughter of the Queen Mother, so the Queen Mother demoted the morning glory to the mortal world and ordered the Weaver Girl to keep weaving brocade as punishment. The job of the Weaver Girl is to use a magical silk to weave layers of beautiful clouds on the loom, and their colors change with time and seasons. This is the "celestial garment". Since Petunia was demoted, Weaver Girl often shed tears and missed Petunia with a gloomy look. She sat by the loom and kept weaving beautiful brocades, hoping to win the Queen Mother's compassion and allow the morning glory to return to heaven as soon as possible. One day, several fairies begged the Queen Mother to visit the green lotus pond on earth. The Queen Mother was in a good mood today, so she agreed to them. Seeing that Weaver Girl was depressed all day long, they begged the Queen Mother to let Weaver Girl go with them. The Queen Mother also felt sorry for her granddaughter after being punished, so she ordered them to leave as soon as possible. It is said that after Qian Niu was demoted, he was born in a farmer's family and was named Cowherd. After his parents passed away, he lived with his brother and sister-in-law. The elder brother and sister-in-law were very mean to the Cowherd and wanted to separate from him. They only gave him an old cow and a broken car. The rest were monopolized by the elder brother and the sister-in-law. Then they separated from the Cowherd.

From then on, the Cowherd and the Old Cow depended on each other. They fought through thorns and thorns in the wasteland, plowed the fields and built houses. After a year or two, they built a small home and could barely make ends meet. However, except for the dumb old cow, the Cowherd was the only one in the deserted home, and his life was quite lonely. The Cowherd didn't know that the old cow was actually the Taurus star in the sky. On this day, the old cow suddenly spoke. He said to the Cowherd: "Cowherd, today you go to the Bilian Pond. Some fairies are taking a bath there. You hide the red fairy clothes and wear the red fairy clothes." The fairy will become your wife." The Cowherd was surprised and happy when he saw Lao Niu talking about people, so he asked: "Brother Niu, are you really good at talking?" Lao Niu nodded. After nodding, the Cowherd quietly hid in the reeds beside the green lotus pond, waiting for the fairies to come. After a while, the fairies arrived gracefully, took off their light clothes, and jumped into the clear stream. The Cowherd ran out of the reeds and took away the purple fairy clothes. When the fairies saw someone coming, they hurriedly put on their clothes and flew away like birds. Only the fairy who could not escape without clothes was left. She was the Weaver Girl. When the Weaver Girl saw that her fairy clothes had been snatched away by a young man, she was ashamed and anxious, but she had no choice but to do anything. At this time, the Cowherd came up to her and told her that he could only give her back her clothes if she agreed to be his wife. The Weaver Girl took a closer look and realized that the Cowherd was the morning glory she had been thinking about day and night, so she shyly agreed to him. In this way, the Weaver Girl became the Cowherd's wife. After they got married, the man farmed and the woman weaved, loving each other and living a very happy life. Soon, they gave birth to a son and a daughter, who were very cute. The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl thought they could stay together forever and grow old together. However, when the Queen Mother found out about this, she became furious and immediately sent the gods and fairies to capture Weaver Girl and bring her back to heaven to hold her accountable. On this day, the Weaver Girl was cooking. The Cowherd who had gone to the fields hurried back and told the Weaver Girl with red and swollen eyes: "Brother Cow is dead. Before he died, he said that he wanted me to peel off his cowhide and put it away after he died. One day, if you put it on, you can fly to the sky." When the Weaver Girl heard this, she was puzzled. She understood that the old cow was the Taurus star in the sky, and she was demoted just because she said a few words of justice to the Altair who was demoted to the earth. Heaven. How could it die suddenly? The Weaver Girl asked the Cowherd to peel off the cowhide and bury the cow properly. At this moment, there was a strong wind in the sky, and the heavenly soldiers descended from the sky. Without any explanation, they escorted Weaver Girl and flew into the sky.

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