What do we eat on Tanabata?
1. Eat proper fruit.
On Valentine's Day in China, there is a folk custom of eating proper fruit. Proper fruit is a kind of food made of flour, oil, sugar, sesame and other ingredients. It tastes soft on the outside and has a sweet filling. It is said that when you eat proper fruit in Chinese Valentine's Day, you can pray for the sweetness of love. In addition, as we all know, the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl met on the Magpie Bridge on Tanabata, and the coincidence with the bridge is a yearning for a better life.
Step 2 eat melon
Chinese Valentine's Day will also eat all kinds of melons, their shapes are very unique, some will carve melons and fruits into various flowers and birds, and also carve embossed patterns on the surface of melons and fruits, which are particularly beautiful. These beautiful melons are collectively called flower melons. Flower melons are carved only on melons and fruits, with exotic flowers and birds, or couples in pairs, as well as auspicious patterns or strange reliefs. Eating such flower melons in Chinese Valentine's Day may contaminate other people's ingenuity and make them smart, which is also one of the meanings of eating flower melons in Chinese Valentine's Day.
"Worship the Weaver Girl" on Tanabata is an important event for girls and young women. Sacrifice offerings include tea, wine, fresh fruit, etc., and Wuzi (longan, red dates, hazelnuts, peanuts and melon seeds) is even more indispensable. After burning incense and praying silently, these offerings become their midnight snack food.