Qiqiao Festival and Qixi Festival (Chinese Valentine's Day) both fall on the same day. It's a day when young girls pray for wisdom and skills from Zhinu, the goddess who weaves colorful clouds.
In Ancient China,
Unmarried girls pray for cleverness in needlework and marital bliss because they believe that marital happiness comes only if their sewing skills are up to scratch.
On this day girls hold a competition demonstrating their skills through games such as threadings needles, finding objects, and many more. If a girl won these contests they would be considered skillful and intelligent.
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