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nu to meet once a year on the seventh night of the seventh is said that at that night,children can hear the private conversation between the weaving maid and the cowherd under the grape is how qixi came to be.in actuality,the festival can be traced back to the han dynasty (206 bcad 220).people would traditionally look up at the sky and spot a bright star in the constellation aquila,as well as the star vega,identified as niulang and two stars shine on opposite sides of the milky way.qixi is also known as the begging for skills festival or daughters festival. in the past,girls would hold ceremonies on the day and pray to zhinu for wisdom,dexterity and a satisfying some parts of shandong province,young women would offer fruit and pastries to her in return for a blessing of spiders were seen to weave webs on sacrificial objects,it was believed that zhinu was offering positive other parts of china,the custom was for seven close friends to gather to make would put into three separate dumplings a needle,a copper coin and a red date,which represented perfect needlework skills,good fortune and an early marriage respectively.young women in southern china wove small handicrafts with colored paper,grass and g and needlework petitions would be held to s