Description
The Seven Sisters Festival falls on the seventh day of the seventh Chinese lunar month and has a deep meaning for unmarried women. It celebrates the day when the legendary Heavenly Weaver can meet her lover, a cowherd, over a bridge of birds spanning the Milky Way. Single girls pray for good husbands, placing their best pieces of weaving and sewing on the family altar, along with seven pieces of fruit, vegetables and sweets. They hope to communicate with the Seven Sisters or with the weaving maiden herself.