What are the customs of the Qixi Festival and what are the traditional folk customs
"Tonight on the Qixi Festival, watch the sky, and the morning cow and the weaver girl cross the river bridge." Every year on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month is the Qixi Festival, also known as Qixi Festival.Qiao Festival, Qijie Festival, Girls" Festival, Qiqiao Festival, etc., there are the following traditional folk customs:incense bridge meeting, catching dew, worshiping ghosts and gods, praying for marriage, fighting Qiao, listening to whispers, knotting red head rope, purifying water video and film and many more.
The Qixi Festival was born in ancient times with the purpose of worshipping the stars, and later evolved into a festival for praying for marriage.Because the Qixi Festival has such a long history, there are many folk customs accumulated, such as the Xiangqiao Festival in Yixing, the dew gathering in Zhejiang, and the worship of Qijie in Guangdong.
What are the main festival customs of the Qixi Festival
1.Pray for marriage:At first, the significance of the Qixi Festival was not related to the marriage between men and women, but later with the festival, it became popular among the people.Popularity, coupled with the rendering of the myth of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, so the Qixi Festival has more meanings to pray for marriage.Whenever the seventh day of the seventh lunar month comes, girls pray for a happy marriage in the future.
2.Worshiping ghosts and gods:Qixi Festival is like other traditional festivals, and it is inseparable from ghosts and gods.Therefore, people also worship ghosts and gods during the Qixi Festival.The objects of worship include:Worship Bodhisattva, worship the land, worship the cowherd, worship Kuixing, worship the bed mother, worship the seventh sister and so on.Because the customs are different in different places, the specific worship objects and worship procedures are different.
3.Star-gazing to participate in the Fragrant Bridge Meeting:Whether it is the legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, or the initial worship of the constellations, people must watch the stars on the Qixi Festival.Niu and Vega, the moon turns over the shadow of the sycamore tree.".In areas such as Yixing, Jiangsu, there is still the custom of participating in the Fragrant Bridge Fair.People hope to pray for a happy marriage at the Fragrant Bridge Fair.
4.The folk customs of Qixi Festival, such as watching movies, knotting red head ropes, etc., are all to pray for girls to have wisdom, beauty, health and safety, so whenever the Qixi Festival comes, the girls will thread a needle and thread, and place small objects in the still water.Watch the movie with a needle grass stick, wear a red rope around the neck, etc.
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