What are the customs and activities of the Qixi Festival? Traditional Festival and Folk Customs Inquiry Form
The Qixi Festival has Xiangqiao Festival and Douqiao , begging for marriage, storing Qixi water, welcoming immortals, worshipping gods, worshipping the mother in bed, dyeing nails, stargazing on Qixi Festival, listening to whispers, purifying water and video, knotting red headbands, drying books and clothes, ligating Qiaogu, playing grinding and drinking festive customs.
The Qixi Festival is a very old festival.Whenever the Qixi Festival comes, people will hold various celebration activities.There are more than ten kinds of custom activities, and it has become one of the most important traditional festivals in China.
What are the folk activities on the Qixi Festival?
The specific folk activities on the Qixi Festival include the Xiangqiao meeting, catching the dew, worshiping the seventh sister, fighting for skill, begging for marriage, and visiting the seventh sister., Seed and seek children, store Qixi water, celebrate the birth of a cow, Qiqiao tribute case, welcome immortals, worship God, worship the cowherd, worship Kuixing, worship the mother of the bed, dye nails, stargazing on the Qixi Festival, listen to whispers, purify water video, People use these folk customs to celebrate the Qixi Festival to pray for a happy marriage in the future, so the Qixi Festival is also called Valentine"s Day.
List of Chinese Festivals
| name of festival | Festival time | folk customs |
| Spring Festival | the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar | paste couplets, Sweeping, dusting, eating dumplings, paying New Year"s greetings, setting off firecrackers |
| Lantern Festival | 15th day of the first lunar month | Eating lanterns and lanterns Meeting, offering sacrifices to gods, walking for all kinds of diseases, lion dance, stilt walking God, eating dragon food, collecting dragon energy, shaving dragon head, driving dragon boat, making cattle, writing and writing, attracting dragons |
| Flower Festival | lunar calendar February 2nd | Wish the temple, swim in spring and flutter butterflies, plant flowers and pick vegetables, dry seeds for prosperity, make flower cakes |
| Cold Food Festival | April 4th or 5th of the Gregorian calendar (the day before Qingming Festival) | Sacrificial sweep, outing, swing, Cuju, hook, cockfight |
| Qingming Festival | April 5th or 6th of the Gregorian calendar | Outing, sweeping graves, planting trees, flying kites, eating green balls, planting willows, tug-of-war, swinging, Willow Shooting and Silkworm Flower Festival |
| Dragon Boat Festival | May 5th in the lunar calendar | racing dragon boat, eating zongzi, hanging wormwood Calamus, winding colorful ropes, drinking realgar wine, avoiding five poisons, avoiding the Dragon Boat Festival, sticking noon time symbols, wearing damselfly, painting foreheads |
| Qixi Festival | lunar calendar July 7th | Incense bridge meeting, catch dew, worship ghosts and gods, pray for marriage, fight cleverness, listen to whispers, knot red head rope, water purification video |
| Zhongyuan Festival | The 14th or 15th day of the seventh lunar month | Sacrificing ancestors, putting river lanterns, offering sacrifices to dead souls, burning paper ingots, and offering sacrifices to land |
| Mid-Autumn Festival | August 15th of the lunar calendar | Moon admiring, offering moon sacrifices, eating moon cakes, drinking osmanthus wine, lighting lanterns, lantern festival , watching tides, burning towers, playing with Rabbit, setting banquets | Double Ninth Festival | September 9th of the lunar calendar | Climb high and autumn tour, worship ghosts and gods, wear dogwood, eat Chongyang cake, drink chrysanthemum wine |
| Winter Clothes Festival | October 1st day of the lunar calendar | Send cold clothing to ancestors in the form of tomb sweeping, worship, etc. |
| Winter Solstice Festival | October 21st or 22nd of the Gregorian Calendar | Enjoy ancestors, hold banquets, etc. |
| Laba Festival | Eighth of the 12th lunar month | Eat Laba Congee, Eat Laba Vinegar, Eat Laba Garlic, Eat Ice, Eat Laba Tofu, Eat Laba Noodles |
| Xiao Nian | The 23rd or 24th day of the 12th lunar month | cleaning the house, bathing, eating candy, offering sacrifices to ghosts and gods |
| New Year"s Eve | the 29th or 30th day of the 12th lunar month | New Year"s Eve dinner, sticking New Year"s Eve, burning firecrackers, worshipping ancestors, New Year"s Eve, Hanging Lanterns, New Year"s Money |
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