Folklore Friday: Double 7 days, Chinese Valentine’s Day

Hey guys, welcome to Learn Feng Shui, where you'll learn Feng Shui from a classical point of view, taking out the myths and superstition. If you like weekly tips as well as fun folklore tales, you'll enjoy learning Feng Shui with me. Hey guys, welcome to Folklore Friday. Today I'm going to talk to you about the history and traditions of what is called a double sevens day or the Chinese Valentine's Day. Hey guys, coming to you from Chinese flower214.com, it's actually a website that sells flowers but it has this cool little article on it about Valentine's Day.

So if you catch this in time for Valentine's Day and you want to order something, check out this website. So the Chinese Valentine's Day is celebrated on the seventh day, the seventh lunar month in the Chinese calendar. So that's going to be around August because remember, there are calendars off about a month from ours. So there's an interesting love story behind this day about the seventh daughter of the Emperor of Heaven and an orphaned cowherter. The Emperor played swole sport and separated the both of them.

I guess they had fallen in love. The seventh daughter was forced to move to the star called Vega and the cowherter moved to the star named Altar. They were not allowed to meet but only once a year on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month. Here on the quick version of China highlights.com, it states that an ox herder with the help of his ox married a fairy who became a weaver girl. Her mother returned to heaven and the goddess separated them by a river of stars.

Of course, it's called the Milky Way and the magpies were allowed to form a bridge for them to meet once a year. That's not in any way convoluted. So some of the customs that they celebrate is actually, you know, they'll go to the temple to pray. It says the temple of the matchmaker and pray for their love and happiness and possible marriage. And it says single girls will actually pray to the weaving maiden star to be able to handcraft and learn how to be a good wife.

It says here when the starvegas in the sky and girls were performed test by putting the needle on water and if the needle does not sink, it's a sign of the girl's maturity and a sign she's ready to find a husband. In some provinces of China, it's believed that decorating the oxen's horns with flowers on Chinese Valentine's Day will save them from catastrophe. It says here another fascinating aspect of Chinese Valentine's Day is women washing their hair to make it look fresh and shiny, whereas children will wash their faces the next morning using the overnight water to be a more naturally beautiful. So the women will wash their hair in some water, leave it sitting and the children will then wash their faces the next day with it. From Chinahighlights.com, it says here that they would actually, you know, give up a lot of offerings of like wine, tea, fruits, red dates, hazelnuts, peanuts, melon seeds.

And in the evening, the young woman would sit around the table and display needle work. And of course, again, with that vegas star. And that's when they would do the needle floating on the water test. It does also state that nowadays they really don't practice too many of these customs, you know, such as the needle work and praying to the stars and all that stuff. But they do pretty much celebrate how they do here in the US with just flowers and chocolate and all that kind of stuff.

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