The Japanese "Chinese Valentine's Day" originated in China, and has continued the custom and habit of "begging for cleverness". Now it has become an important traditional folk festival. Valentine's Day in China was originally on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month. After the Meiji Restoration, Japan abolished the lunar calendar, so now Valentine's Day in China, Japan, falls on the seventh day of the solar calendar every year.
In Japan, Tanabata is actually a festival for children. The reason for this custom is that at first children used this festival to pray for a pair of skillful hands from the Weaver Girl. The legendary Weaver Girl is ingenious. Couples are naturally in a good mood when they meet on Tanabata. At this time, it is very likely to pray to her and be allowed. However, with the passage of time, the Japanese weaver girl has become more and more responsible, not only to give children skillful hands, but also to satisfy their various wishes.
1, 7-up doll
In Matsumoto, Niigata, Yamanashi and other areas in Nagano Prefecture, Japan, on Tanabata, every household will make some dolls to hang in front of their doors, which means that they hope to "sew more and more beautiful kimonos" and "raise their children smoothly", and in some places it means "lend kimonos to cowherd and weaver girl".
2. Eat cake
Suobing is the food people used to eat on Tanabata. Later, it evolved into the custom of eating dried noodles. It can be said that the ancestor of dried noodles wanted cakes. Suobing was introduced to Japan in Nara era, and it looks like our China twist. The Japanese mix wheat and rice flour, twist them into a rope-like slender shape, and then fry or bake them until they are cooked.
Step 3 eat dried noodles
The book in Heian period recorded that "eating vermicelli on Tanabata was seriously ill". From a long time ago, there was a custom of eating vermicelli on Tanabata in the palace. Since then, this custom has spread among the people. Even in hot summer, dried noodles are refreshing and delicious, which is very effective in preventing loss of appetite and summer boredom.
4, Qixi paper clothes
In Sendai, Kyoto and many other places, Qixi paper clothes are used as a way to drive away the unknown. Inheriting from the ancients, in July, the season when the harvest is coming, people have been begging for good weather with paper clothes in order to avoid some disasters brought by nature.