Customs of the Tanabata Legend

Tanabata festival known as Qi Qiao Festival, and Vega is connected to the legend. This is a very beautiful love story through the ages to become one of China's four major folk love story. Cowboy is that children suffer less fortunate and a fairy named married Weaver, Weaver was the Queen Mother was brought back to heaven, breaking up their beautiful marriage. Cowboy catch up with heaven, the Milky Way by the Queen Mother was eventually separated. Later, the Cowherd and Weaver's loyal love touched magpies, magpie flew ten million, barricaded Queqiao, so Vega took Queqiao meet, the Queen Mother have no choice but to allow the two in July each year, with 7 at the Queqiao Council.

Tanabata Festival is the most common practice is that women in the seventh day of July Qi Qiao night for a variety of activities. Qi Qiao way most girls experience in a go-between clever, clever game to do small items, put some fruit Qi Qiao, Qi Qiao various regions of different ways, have fun.
In Jinan, Shandong Huimin, Gao Qing Qi Qiao and other places of activity is very simple, just display fruits Qi Qiao, if like spider webs in the fruit on top, it means that begging was a coincidence. And Juan City, Cao, plain rice and other places to eat Qiaoqiao Qi Qiao customs are very interesting: a good girl to be set seven grain set bun dumplings, put a coin, a pin and a package to the three dates, respectively, dumplings , the Qi Qiao activities after they get together to eat dumplings, eat money legend of the blessed, the needle of the dexterity to eat, eat dates of early marriage.
Some parts of the Qi Qiao Festival activities, with the nature of competition, similar to the ancient custom of fighting clever. Modern go-between, steamed clever rebellious rebellious, clever branded fruit, some places have the custom to do clever bud soup, usually in July, started to sprout grains soaked in water, Tanabata this day, cut shoots soup, the special attention to children Fine dining bud and the use of figurines, paper cutting, Caixiu made decorations and other forms of fighting clever is the evolution of customs. The boy will be picking wild flowers in the day of Tanabata hanging in the horn, and called "He cattle Birthday" (Legend of Tanabata is a cow's birthday).
Zhucheng, Tengxian, Zouxian area under the rain called Tanabata "Love Rain" or "Acacia tears", because it is due to meet Vega. Shandong, Southwest and other places little magpie legend that day, all went to heaven and take Queqiao go.

Guangzhou Qi Qiao Festival unique, holiday before the arrival of the girls on the pre-prepared easy to use colored paper, through the grass, rope, etc., compiled into a variety of cunning gadgets, also grains and green beans soaked in water into a small box , so that germination until the bud into more than two inches long, used to worship, known as the "worship cents Wo" and "gods food." Late start from the sixth to seventh day late, two consecutive nights, the girls put on new clothes, wearing new jewelry, everything is arranged, they incense candles, the Star bow, called "Towards Sin," from the three even five more, to even worship seven times. Thanks cents, the girls holding lights in the front line of the color line through the pinhole, such as breath to those who wear seven pinhole-known clever, known as the hands, wear a lost less than seven pinhole called clever . Tanabata, the girls will be produced by small crafts, toys, give each other to show friendship.