It's another year in Chinese Valentine's Day
"Far away Altair, Jiaojiao River Chinese girl." On the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl came to meet, the magpies were busy building a happy bridge, and there was laughter everywhere.
In the summer night, I enjoy the cool in the courtyard with my grandma. The wind at night was cool, so I pestered my grandmother to tell me stories. Grandma shook the cattail leaf fan and began to tell the story of "Cowherd and Weaver Girl". "... Later, July 7th was regarded as the day when the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl met once a year." In the persimmon leaves "wow-wow-"sound, grandma ended the story. I looked up at my grandmother with a horn and asked curiously, "When will it be July 7?" Then he complained about the grievances of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl: "The Queen Mother is really annoying. The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl meet once a year. How can it be enough!" Grandma touched my head with a smile and said, "It will be July 7 in two days!" " When I was young, I ran around the yard, happy for the cowherd and the weaver girls ... That was the first time I had an impression of Tanabata.
Every year during the Dragon Boat Festival, my mother will tie a "flower rope" on my wrist. The flower rope is made of several colors of thread, which is really beautiful. My mother said that this flower rope should be worn all the time, and it will be thrown into the sky on July 7 to make a happy bridge for the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, so that they can stay together for a long time. Magpies want to sleep at night. After all, "tenderness is like water, ritual is like a dream, and they can bear to take care of the bridge and return home." Meeting once a year can't be sloppy.
The Altair and Vega are far away in the sky. Is the milky way in the middle the hairpin of the Queen Mother? There are some meanings of "there is no words between the water and the water."
On July 7th, the world was also very lively. In ancient times, only on this day could the ladies and gentlemen meet to relieve the suffering of lovesickness. Perhaps it is "distance produces beauty" or "at arm's length" that the ancient people's feelings are always particularly strong.
Grandma said that July 7th is the day to go to bed early, and children can't stand the idea of leaving at night. On the night of July 7, I secretly opened the bamboo curtain and looked out. The sky was gray and I couldn't see a heart. I thought to myself: Is the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl separated? Suddenly, for the first time, I felt that time passed quickly and time was ruthless. In a corner of the bamboo curtain, I leaned out for half a head. wait for a while looked at the sky and shed a tear for some reason. I got the word "parting" for the first time. "All right, all right, and your separation. From then on, you and me are tens of millions of miles, I am in the sky, you are in the sky. The road is blocked and long, and it is safe to meet? "
When I grew up, I accidentally talked to my friend about it. My friend, who has never been a literary person, actually said, "If the relationship lasts for a long time, how can it last forever?" I looked at her, quiet for a few seconds, my heart suddenly enlightened.
Now, every July 7th, our families get together at home, and a bunch of hometown customs that my grandma has translated out of nowhere become interesting. After dinner, grandma sang "Queqiao Fairy", and everyone started to beat the time while listening. "Tenderness is like water, ritual is like a dream, and you can bear to go home. If the two feelings are long, they will be in the morning and evening. " In the sound of persimmon leaves "wow-wow-",grandma ended her singing, just like a few years ago, as if nothing had changed. In the sky, Altair and Vega seem to really snuggle together.
On July 7th, be happy to your home, Chinese Valentine's Day. 2. Tanabata custom composition of 25 words
Tanabata begging for cleverness is the main activity of the festival. Begging for cleverness, I don't know if you have heard of it, it's a custom in Chinese Valentine's Day. Then let me introduce it below.
Most of the ways of begging for cleverness are that girls try their best with needles, make small items and put some melons and fruits to beg for cleverness. The ways of begging for cleverness in different regions are different and have their own interests. Shandong, Jinan, Huimin, Gaoqing and other places, display melons and fruits, and wait for the spider to make a web on the melons and fruits. Juancheng, Caoxian, Pingyuan and other places eat clever rice: seven good girls collect food and vegetables, jiaozi, and put a copper coin, a needle and a red date into three dumplings respectively. After the clever activities, they get together to eat dumplings. It is said that they are blessed with money, skillful with needles and early marriage with dates. Zhucheng, Tengxian and Zouxian call the rain on Qixi "acacia rain" or "acacia tears" because it is caused by the meeting of cowherd and weaver girl.
In Zhejiang, Hangzhou, Ningbo, Wenzhou and other places, all kinds of small objects are made of flour on this day, which are called "proper fruit" after frying in oil, and proper fruit, lotus, white lotus root and Hong Ling are displayed in the courtyard at night. The girl puts a needle on the moon to pray for the weaver girl to give her a clever skill, or catches a spider and puts it in a box. If the box is opened the next day, it is called clever. In Jinhua area, every family will kill a chicken on July 7, which means that the cowherd and the weaver girl will meet this night, and if there is no rooster to announce the dawn, they will never be apart. Guangxi. Legend has it that on the morning of July 7th, the fairy will come down to the earth to take a bath, and drinking its bath water can ward off evil spirits, cure diseases and prolong life. This water is called "Double Seven Waters". When chickens crow on this day, people scramble to get water from the river, and then take it back and put it in a new urn for future use. Guangdong. Guangzhou's Begging for Clevership Festival is unique. Before the festival comes, girls prepare colorful paper, medulla tetrapanacis, string and so on in advance, and weave them into all kinds of fancy gadgets. They also put the seeds and mung beans in a small box and soak them in water to germinate them. When the buds grow to more than two inches, they are used to worship the gods, which are called "worshipping the immortals" and "worshipping the gods". After Tanabata, the girls gave each other small handicrafts and toys to show their friendship. In Fujian and Chinese Valentine's Day, Weaver Girl should be allowed to appreciate and taste fruits and vegetables, so that she can bless the fruits and vegetables harvest in the coming year. The offerings include tea, wine, fresh fruit, five seeds (longan, red dates, hazelnuts, peanuts and melon seeds), flowers, pollen for women's cosmetics and a incense burner.
proper fruit is the most famous festival food for the Qixi Festival. Proper fruit, also known as "Kiki Kiki Fruit", has many styles. The main materials are oil, flour, sugar and honey. There are also many changes in the melons and fruits used in begging for cleverness: either the melons and fruits are carved into exotic flowers and birds, or the surface of the melon skin is embossed with patterns; This kind of melon is called "flower melon".
That's what I introduced to you about Chinese Valentine's Day customs. 3. Chinese Valentine's Day composition
In July, the summer vacation began! The hot sun shines on us, shines into our hearts and warms our hearts. This scorching sun has attracted the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, and Chinese Valentine's Day is coming!
In Chinese Valentine's Day, cowherd and weaver girl can only meet once a year, and there is only one Chinese Valentine's Day. At night in Chinese Valentine's Day, many people are knitting clothes to celebrate this beautiful Chinese Valentine's Day. People in the countryside also climbed the ladder and made their own wishes. Everything is wonderful. At this moment, I seemed to see birds lined up to form a bridge: Magpie Bridge. I saw Cowherd and Weaver Girl on both sides of the Magpie Bridge again. Their eyes are full of happiness, and their faces are full of longing and expectation. Gradually, the two men stepped onto the Magpie Bridge and met in the middle of the bridge. The birds chirped, as if to bless the cowherd and the weaver girl, and the cicadas in the tree kept chirping, as if to postpone the dawn. Cowherd and Weaver Girl seem to have wings, falling in love in the sky, making people intoxicated and immersed in a home full of sunshine, flowers and love.
unfortunately, no one can stop the morning. At the moment of leaving, the cowherd held the hand of the Weaver Girl tightly, trying to keep this beautiful thing, but there was no way. The touching moment is coming. Birds seem to cherish all this, cicadas seem to be crying, and even God is moved. Everyone wants to save it! The most exciting thing is that the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl refused to let go, preferring to disappear hand in hand.
I woke up from this beautiful dream, only to see the stars twinkling in the sky. My heart is also blessing the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, and I look forward to Chinese Valentine's Day's coming again. Next time, I must keep the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl in my dream, so that they will never be separated and live happily. I hope they can come down to earth and live with me. Although all this is impossible, I still have such a dream.
------------hope to adopt. At noon, everyone puts the embroidery needle, or replaces it with a new broom tip, on the water, floating but not sinking, and then watches the shadow of the needle in the water. Those who scatter like flowers, move like clouds, or form a fog are considered to be "clever begging" Generally, after fasting and bathing, everyone takes turns to burn incense and worship at the altar and pray silently. Women not only beg for cleverness, but also beg for children, longevity, beauty and love.
"Buqiao"
jiaozi, a seven-girl, collects food and vegetables, wraps a copper coin, a wooden needle and a red date into three dumplings respectively, and after the begging activities, they get together to eat dumplings. It is said that it is blessed to eat copper coins, and it is skillful to eat wooden needles, and it is early to eat red dates.
"Fighting Skillfully"
Girls compete to thread needles, steam skillfully, bake skillfully fruits, make skillfully bud soup, and use dough sculpture, paper-cutting and colored embroidery as decorations and so on. Whoever has a good craft has to be skillful. Before Tanabata, colored paper, medulla tetrapanacis, thread rope, etc. were prepared in advance, and all kinds of ingenious gadgets were compiled. After the activity began, the colored thread was held in the light shadow and passed through the pinholes. If you can wear seven pinholes in one breath, you will be skillful, which is called skillful hand, and if you can't wear seven pinholes, you will lose it.
Worship Seven Sisters
"Worship Seven Sisters on Qixi" is popular in Fujian, Guangdong and Southeast Asia. This is a big festival for my daughter's family in the old days. Guangdong, in particular, is very grand. It was very popular from the Han Dynasty until the Ming Dynasty.
Listening to whispers
In the dead of night, lying under the grape trellis and beside the pumpkin shed, listening to cowherd and weaver girl whispering.
Weave a magpie bridge
Weave a magpie bridge with wheat straw or cut it with colored paper, match it with cowherd, weaver girl, boy, girl, old cow and magpie, and put it on the desk or stick it on the wall. After praying, take seven embroidery needles and thread them with colored thread. It is a coincidence that they can pass through smoothly at one time.
eating clever food
using white flour or cake flour to add oil, sugar and honey to make various sweets is called clever food. As the festival food of Tanabata, skillful food includes melons, fruits and various kinds of pasta, with different customs in different places, and proper fruit is the most famous. Proper fruit, also known as "Qiqiao Fruit", has many styles, which are called "Laughing and Disliking Children" and "Fruit Eating Patterns" in "Tokyo Dream of China", and the patterns include fragrant incense and Fang Sheng. During the Song Dynasty, proper fruit was already on sale in the market.
sending ropes
There is a custom of sending ropes on July 7th in Jiangnan and Jiangbei. Legend has it that magpies are in urgent need of a large number of ropes because of bridging the bridge to let the cowherd and the weaver girl meet. The old ox, who was originally a matchmaker for the couple, remembered the folk custom of tying colored ropes to children's wrists for health during the Dragon Boat Festival and named them "Jian Rope", and started people to offer ropes. So everyone agreed to untie the rope on the child's wrist and throw it on the roof or windowsill the night before the seventh day of July, so that the magpie could take the title to bridge the bridge.
Tie the image for happiness
According to the plot of the meeting between the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, a pair of young men and women are tied with branches and other things in the street corners to represent the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, and fruits, peaches and plums are presented in front of the image. When the Milky Way is brilliant, it is considered as a sign that the Cowherd and the Weaver Maid will meet each other if you see the milky way shining with five colors. In the old days, I had to bow down and beg for the blessing of Cowherd and Weaver Girl. 5. What does it mean for Chinese Valentine's Day to eat proper fruit?
I wish myself or my friends to be clever.
Chinese Valentine's Day folk custom eats proper fruit. Proper fruit, also known as "the fruit of seeking cleverness", has many kinds of designs.
the main raw material is oil surface molasses. Proper fruit is made by melting sugar into syrup in a pot, then mixing it with flour and sesame seeds, spreading it on a table, rolling it thin, cooling it, cutting it into long squares with a knife, and finally folding it into spindle-shaped noodles, and frying it until golden.
Handy women can also sculpt various patterns related to the Qixi legend. In addition, the melons and fruits used for begging for cleverness can also be varied.
or carve melons and fruits into exotic flowers and birds, or emboss patterns on the surface of melon skin, which is called "flower melon". Proper fruit and flower melon are the most common Qixi foods.
In history, different dynasties had different food customs. For example, soup cakes were popular in the Wei Dynasty on July 7th.
In the Tang Dynasty, the festival foods included cakes on July 7th, and July 7th was designated as a book-drying festival. Each of the three provinces and less than six departments was given a certain amount of money for the banquet, which was called "book-drying party". Nowadays, in Hangzhou, Ningbo, Wenzhou and other places in Zhejiang, people will also make various small items with flour and put them in a frying pan, which is called "proper fruit".
After the proper fruit is made, it will be displayed on several cases in the courtyard at night, including proper fruit, Lotus, Bai Ji, Hong Ling, etc. Family members and relatives will sit together and enjoy the vast night sky while tasting various proper fruit and other foods. Everyone hopes that they or their relatives will become clever. 6. Chinese Valentine's Day's 6-word composition on folk customs
Recommended reference: "Love Story in China" China traditional festival "Qixi".
Nowadays, many people call it "Valentine's Day in China", and savvy merchants even took the opportunity to promote sales under the slogan of "Valentine's Day in China". Folklore experts said that it is a misunderstanding to call Tanabata Valentine's Day, and it is far less appropriate to call it China's Love Story.
Tanabata has a history of more than 2, years in China, also known as "Begging for Cleverness Festival" and "Daughter's Day", as well as "Double Seventh", "Sweet Day", "Qiaoxi", "Blue Night" and "Needle-piercing Festival", etc. It is the most romantic festival among the traditional festivals in China, and it is also a day that girls and women attach importance to and love. The custom of begging for cleverness on Qixi originated in the Han Dynasty in China, and later it coincided with the story of Cowherd and Weaver Girl.
Today, Chinese Valentine's Day is a festival with the folklore of Cowherd and Weaver Girl as the carrier, love as the theme and women as the protagonist. I remember the other day when I was sorting out the customs of Huaiyan Festival, it was mentioned that the colorful wool tied by children during the Dragon Boat Festival would have to be untied on the sixth day of the sixth lunar month and thrown on the roof of my house.
It is said that when magpies see the wool on the roof, they will take it away and fly to the sky. Until the seventh day of July, they will use these wool to build a rainbow bridge on the Milky Way for the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl to meet. The imagination of ordinary people is really rich, and they have crossed the tunnel of time and space. First, there is a peerless love between the Weaver Girl and the Cowherd, and then there is great resistance to separate them from each other.
However, the hearts of ordinary people are always full of infinite longing, even in the face of the darkest situation, so there is a happy meeting of cowherd and weaver girl on Tanabata. Chinese Valentine's Day also contains the significance of praising the permanent and stable feelings in the family and the labor quality such as ingenuity.
When I was a child, I watched Huangmei's play "The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl", and the picture in it still lingers in my mind. The scene of the festive harvest is still vivid.
The harvest of fruits and vegetables, the beautiful and peaceful neighbors, and even the brother and sister-in-law who once bullied Cowherd came to shake hands with the Weaver family in shame. The scene was really warm and moving. The Weaver Girl and the Cowherd darned the days so sweetly with their hard-working hands, when they heard the Weaver Girl sing the satisfaction in her heart with a soft and sweet voice.