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ot 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 see who had the best hands and the brightest mind,prerequisites for being a good wife and mother.however,these ancient traditions and customs have been slowly dying people than ever gaze at the heaven on that day to pick out the two stars shining bright on either side of the milky way that is,if they even know on which day qixi falls.