摘要
ON the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar in the town of Shitang,Wenling City in east China’s Zhejiang Province,many households celebrate a festival that is commonly called“Kids’Day”for children aged 1-16 by praying to the children’s guardian god“Lady Qiniang.”More than 300 years ago,most of the residents here were immigrants from Hui’an and Quanzhou of southeast China’s Fujian Province.One of the customs they brought with them from their old hometowns was offering dolls during the Double Seventh Festival,and this practice they continue doing today.Shitang’s Double Seventh Festival custom was included in the national intangible cultural heritage list in 2011.
