The Shitang Qixi custom is popular in Shitang and Ruoshan along the coast of Wenling, Zhejiang. It is a traditional folk activity for children under the age of 16 to pray to Qi Niang Ma on the Qixi Festival. The ancestors of Shitang moved in from southern Fujian more than 300 years ago, and this custom came with it and has survived to this day. Qi Niang Ma is also known as "Seven Stars Lady" and "Heavenly Fairy Lady". She is the incarnation of the Weaver Girl. In southern Fujian, Qi Niang Ma is regarded as the patron saint of children. According to folklore, Qixi is the birthday of Qi Niang Ma, and children under the age of 16 offer sacrifices to Qi Niang Ma and pray for blessings. 16 years old is the dividing line for children to grow up and no longer participate in sacrifices, so this activity is called "Little People Festival" locally. The main priest is a female elder. The ritual procedure is: from the early morning to noon of the seventh day, families with children set up an offering table at the door, set up a colorful pavilion and a colorful sedan chair, light incense and candles, and place seven wine cups, seven-color threads, fresh fruits and vegetables, sugar turtles, knife meat, Suo Mian, and Zongzi to offer sacrifices to Qi Niang Ma. At the end of the sacrifice, firecrackers are set off, and the colorful pavilion and sedan chair are burned to offer to the Seventh Mother. This custom has distinct characteristics of southern Fujian culture, and is closely related to the colorful pavilion custom of offering the Weaver Girl "Seventh Mother" in Tainan, Kaohsiung and other places in Taiwan. It is of great significance to strengthen the cultural identity and exchanges across the Taiwan Straits, and it also has the value of a living fossil in the study of folklore coming-of-age rites. (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.) (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.)