The perfect rich man in the city

The Chinese Valentine's Day fight for skill, the"divination" method used to determine the skillfulness of a contestant, mainly includes"threading a needle to beg for skill""、"Happy spider should be clever"、"needle to the moon"、"Lost by chance"、"There are several forms such as"Lanye Fighting for Skills" and"Throwing a Needle to Test Skills".

Needle-threading and begging for skills is also called"Game of Skills", that is, women compete in needle-threading. They tie colored threads and thread a seven-hole needle. The faster the needle is threaded, the better. It means whoever begs for more tricks, the one who wears it slowly is called"loser""，"The person who loses by luck should give the gift prepared in advance to the person who wins by chance.

《"Xijing Miscellaneous Notes" says:"The colorful girls of the Han Dynasty often pierced the seven-hole needle in the Kaijin Tower on July 7th, and people got used to it."

This kind of activity no longer exists.

Because there are still girls who can sew.

Trying to find a girl who can sew is like looking for a needle in a haystack. too difficult.

But although there were no girls who could needlework, they flourished in other trades.

For example - teacher.

Especially kindergarten teachers.

Another example - nurse.

There are other public servants.

Although there are fewer people who can sew and thread, there are more people who can educate, care and serve.

However, the practice of threading needles and begging for skill has indeed existed since ancient times, and it can be seen from ancient books.

Liang Zongmou of the Southern Dynasty said in"Jingchu's Years of Life":"On July 7th, on the evening of July 7th, women of other families made colorful decorations and pierced the seven holes outside, or used gold and silver stones as needles."

《"Yu Di Zhi" says:"Emperor Wu of Qi came to view the city. On July 7th, many people in the palace went to the needle-threading tower. The world called it the needle-threading tower.""

Kaiyuan Tianbao Legacy" written by Wang Renyu of the Five Dynasties said:"On the Qixi Festival, in the palace, The pavilion was built with brocade, a hundred feet high, and could accommodate dozens of people. The melons and fruits were cooked with wine, and seats were set up to worship the two stars of the cow and the girl. The concubines each pierced the moon with nine-hole needles and five-colored threads. The marquis who gets clever things. Play the tunes of the Qing Dynasty and the Shang Dynasty, and enjoy the feast to the end. All the families of the local people follow suit."

Yuan Tao Zongyi's"Yue Ting Lu" said:"Jiu Yin Tai is a place for begging for clever tricks on the Chinese Valentine's Day. At the end of the evening, the palace maids come on the stage. Thread a nine-tailed needle with colorful silk, and the one who finishes it first will be lucky, and the one who finishes late will be called a lucky loser. Everyone will contribute money and give it to the lucky one."

But later on, the threading of the needle became a matter of luck.

The activity began to change slightly and became a test of skill.

Throwing a needle to test one's skills is a custom of begging for skills on the Chinese Valentine's Day. It originates from, but is different from, needlework. It is a Chinese Valentine's Day custom that was popular in the Ming and Qing dynasties.

The so-called test of skill by throwing a needle is to first prepare a basin, place it in the patio, and pour in"mandarin duck water", that is, mix the water taken during the day and the water taken at night. But it is enough to mix river water and well water together and pour it into a basin. The basin and water should be left in the open air overnight, and then exposed to the sun the next day, the seventh day of July, and you can"test the trick" at noon or afternoon.

It turns out that the water in the basin has been exposed to sunlight for half a day, and a thin film has formed on the surface. So I took a sewing needle and gently placed it flat on the water. The needle would not sink. Under the water, a shadow of the needle appeared. If the needle shadow was straight One of them means"begging for skill" failed. If the shadow of the needle forms various shapes, or curved, or thick at one end, thin at the other, or other shapes, it means"getting skill". The other one is to put the needle on the moon,"on the moon""Threading the needle" refers to the fact that on the evening of the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, every household cleans their courtyards. Young women and girls must first kneel down to the Vega and beg her to bless their ingenuity.

Then, they took out the colorful silk threads and seven silver needles they had prepared in advance, and threaded the needles against the moon. Whoever threaded the seven needles first would indicate that she would become a skillful woman in the future.

The spider begging for skill is also an earlier way of begging for skill. Its custom is slightly later than begging for skill by threading a needle, and it roughly started in the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

Liang Zongmao of the Southern Dynasty said in"The Chronicles of Jingchu Years":"It was evening, and melons and fruits were placed in the courtyard to beg for luck. If there were happy nets on the melons, they would be lucky."

Wang Renyu of the Five Dynasties said in"The Legacy of Kaiyuan Tianbao":"July 7 , each catch a spider in a small box until dawn, and regard the spider webs as dense and dense as a sign of cleverness. The dense ones have more cleverness, and the sparse ones have less cleverness. This is also the case among the people."

Meng Yuanlao of the Song Dynasty said in"Tokyo Menghua Lu" On the seventh day of the seventh lunar month,"put a small spider inside the egg and look at it the next day. If the web is round

, it is called a coincidence." Song Zhoumi's"Qian Chun Sui Sui Ji" said:"Put the small spider inside and wait for the web to be built."How long does it take to get a coincidence by looking at the density of the web?" Mingtian Rucheng said in"Xi Chao Pleasures" that on Chinese Valentine's Day,"Put a spider in a small box, and watch the density of its web the next morning to see how much luck you get."

It can be seen from this that the method of testing skill in the past dynasties Different, the presence or absence of the screen in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the density of the screen in the Tang Dynasty, the roundness of the screen in the Song Dynasty, and later generations mostly followed the customs of the Tang Dynasty

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There are many traditional festivals during the Chinese Valentine's Day.

However, with the development of China and the invasion of foreign cultures, many activities have been lost.

Especially around two thousand years ago, when foreign cultures poured into China.

Kazakhstan and Kazakhstan are particularly serious.

Traditional culture began to disappear, and then Western festivals were celebrated.

Western festivals are much grander than traditional festivals.

Two thousand years later, there will be no Qiqiao Festival, it will only be Valentine's Day and Christmas.

Gifts are also given on Valentine's Day and Christmas.

Fortunately, as the Dragon Boat Festival was snatched away, the country began to pay attention to this matter.

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