Begging for cleverness is a custom on July 7th. On the night from the first day of the seventh lunar month to the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, girls in new clothes beg for ingenious ideas from the weaver girl in the yard, which is called "begging for ingenious ideas". It is said that qimei is an expert in weaving heaven. In the past, women "begged" Qi Mei to teach her clever skills.

3. Be smart on Tanabata. Ge Hong's Miscellaneous Notes on Xijing in the Eastern Jin Dynasty records that "women in the Han Dynasty often wear seven-hole needles on July 7 in the building, and everyone wears them". This is the earliest record of begging for wisdom that we have seen in ancient literature.