Tanabata is not just a festival of the lover, but also the beggar carnival party in ancient times

Science Fiction Network August 4th (Qin Yingying) On July 7th of the lunar calendar, it was called Qixi Festival. According to legend, it is the day of the cowboy and weaver girls, so many people think that "Tanabata" is Chinese Valentine's Day. But in ancient times, the Qixi Festival was a "Daughter Day" of the Girls' Beggar Carnival, which is the ancient Women's Day.

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The Qixi Festival is also known as the Qiqiao Festival, the Seven Sister Festival, the Daughter Day, the Qiqiao Festival, the Seven Niang Club, the Qixi Festival festival, the Niu Bulls and Mother -in -law, and Qiao Xi. The Tanabata Festival evolved from Xing Su worshiping, and was born in the traditional seven sisters. Because of the worship of the "Seven Sisters" event, it was held on July 7th.

Tanabata's "Cowherd Weaver Girl" comes from people's worship of natural phenomena. In ancient times, people corresponding to the astronomical star area and geographical areas. This corresponding relationship is astronomical. Divide the wild ". According to legend, on the seventh day of July every year, the Cowherd Weaver Girl meets the bridge in the sky.

At night, the girl wearing a new clothes begged the weaver to begging for their wisdom in the courtyard, called "begging Qiao". Most of the methods of begging are that girls wear needles to lead the wires, make small items, and put on some melon begging. The methods of begging in the Han people in various places are different, and they are interesting. In modern times, decorations made of needle, steaming ingenuity, ingenuity fruit, ingenuity fruit, and buds, and decorations made of surface plastic, paper -cutting, colorful embroidery and other forms are also an extension of begging customs.

The Qiao Guo who eats the Qiaojie also known as "Qi Qiao Guo", with a lot of styles. The main materials are oil, noodles, sugar, and honey. "Tokyo Menghua Record" is called "laughing and disgusting" and "fruit food pattern", and the patterns include fragrance and Fang Sheng. During the Song Dynasty, Qixi Qiao Guo was sold on the market. The method of Qiao Guo was: first put the sugar in the pot and melted it into a syrup, and then the flour and sesame, mixed it well, and spread it on the case. The knife is cut into a rectangular block, and finally folded into a shuttle -shaped ingenious fruit embryo. When it is frying until golden, it is made of flour, or a variety of small items are made with flour.

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Now many places continue the customs of the Tanabata Festival. Now Hangzhou, Ningbo, Wenzhou and other places in Zhejiang will also put in the clean courtyard in the evening. Together.

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