What day is the Qixi Festival in 2021 and what are the customs?
The 2021 Qixi Festival is August 14, 2021 in the Gregorian calendar, which is the seventh day of the seventh lunar month.Since ancient times, people have celebrated on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, so this festival is also called Qixi Festival, Qiqiao Festival, Double Seven Festival, Qiniang Festival, and Qixi Festival.There are folk customs of eating Qiqiao fruit, worshipping gods, and fighting cleverness.
Time of the Qixi Festival in 2021
The Qixi Festival, also known as the Qiqiao Festival, the Qijie Festival, the Girls’ Festival, the Qiqiao Festival, the Qinianghui, the Qixi Festival, the Cow Festival Bull Posing Day, Qiao Xi, etc.are traditional Chinese folk festivals.The Qixi Festival is derived from the worship of the stars and is the birthday of the Seventh Sister in the traditional sense.Because the worship of the "Seventh Sister" is held on the seventh night of the seventh month, it is named "Qixi"."The seventh day of the seventh month" is related to the worship of numbers and time by the ancients.In ancient times, the folks listed the "seven days" of the first lunar month, the second lunar month, the third lunar month, the fifth lunar month, the sixth lunar month, the seventh lunar month, and the ninth lunar month as auspicious days.Therefore, the date of the Qixi Festival in 2021 is Saturday, August 14, 2021 in the Gregorian calendar, which is the seventh day of the seventh lunar month.
Traditional customs of Qixi Festival
1.Eating Qiqiao Fruit
Delicacy must be an indispensable part of traditional festivals.Just like the Spring Festival and dumplings, the Dragon Boat Festival and dumplings, the Mid-Autumn Festival and moon cakes, etc., Qixi Festival naturally also has its own unique food - Qiqiaoguo.Qiqiaoguo, also known as "Qiqiaoguo", is called "Xiaoyaner" in "Tokyo Dream Hualu".According to records, Qiqiaoguo was already sold on the streets of the Song Dynasty.
2.Bai Kuixing
This custom has little to do with the romantic Qixi Festival.According to folklore, July 7th is Kuixing’s birthday.In ancient times, the number one scholar in the examination of scholars was called "Da Kui World Scholar" or "one-shot victory".Kuixing here refers to Kuixing.In the eyes of the ancients, Kuixing was in charge of the examination, and scholars would worship Kuixing on this day in order to be named in the gold list.
3.Threading a needle and begging for cleverness
This should be the earliest method of begging for cleverness, which was recorded in the Han Dynasty.It is mentioned in "Xijing Miscellaneous Notes":"Han Cai women often wear seven holes in the opening on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, and people are accustomed to it." On the Qixi Festival, women from every household will go out of the house, get together, take out their own needlework girls, and beg for tricks by threading needles.
4, drying books and clothes
drying books and clothes was very popular in ancient times.It is recorded that Sima Yi originally pretended to be crazy to avoid misfortune, but he was arrested for drying books.It can be seen that in ancient times What a popular thing to do with books and clothes.However, this custom became an opportunity for wealthy families to show off their wealth in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, so it also attracted the contempt of many scholars and writers.
5.Congratulate the cow
In the story of the cowherd and the weaver girl, the old cow asked the cowherd to peel off his skin in order to help the cowherd to cross the Tianhe, so that the cowherd could take advantage of the cowhide.Cross the Tianhe River to see the Weaver Girl.In order to commemorate the self-sacrificing old cow, on the Qixi Festival, children will pick wild flowers and hang them on the horns to pay homage to the old cow and show their respect for the old cow.
6.Worshiping the Weaver Girl
This activity is basically attended by women.On the evening of the Qixi Festival, tables and chairs are set up under the moonlight, and tea, wine, Fruits, five seeds (longan, red dates, hazelnuts, peanuts, melon seeds) and other items.Everyone sat around the table together, eating melon and fruit snacks, and silently making a wish to Zhinu.
7.Seeds
This is an ancient custom, also known as "five raw pots" or "raw flower pots"..A few days before the Qixi Festival, people will spread several layers of soil on the wooden boards, plant corn, and let it grow green tender seedlings, and then put some small thatched huts, flowers and plants on it to make it look like a small village.It is called "shell plate".Sometimes mung beans, adzuki beans, wheat, etc.are also planted in a bowl, and when they grow sprouts, they are tied into a bunch with red and blue threads.
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