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What does Chinese Valentine's Day eat?
Chinese Valentine's Day's food customs vary from place to place, and they are generally called "smart food". Among them, jiaozi, noodles, avocados, wonton, melons and fruits are the foods for this festival.

1, jiaozi

The custom of begging for cleverness in Juancheng, Caoxian, Pingyuan and other places: Seven good girls collect food and vegetables and wrap a copper coin, a needle and a red date into three dumplings respectively. After begging for cleverness, they get together to eat dumplings. It is said that they are blessed with money, skillful with needles and early married with dates.

2. proper fruit

On this day, all parts of Zhejiang make all kinds of small objects with flour, which are called "proper fruit" after frying in oil. At night, proper fruit, lotus, white lotus root and Hong Ling are displayed in the courtyard. Proper fruit is the most famous festive food for the Qixi Festival. Proper fruit, also known as "Kiki Kiki Fruit", has many styles. The main materials are oil, flour, sugar and honey.

3. Cloud surface

Jiaodong people eat clever fruit on Tanabata, while Linyi people eat cloud noodles on Tanabata. Eat cloud noodles, which have to be made of dew, and you can get clever meaning by eating it.

4. Wuzi

"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.

5. Qiaosu

There are also many folk pastry shops, which like to make some crisp candies with the image of Weaver Girl, commonly known as "homo habilis" and "Qiao Crisp", and when they are sold, they are also called "Send to homo habilis". This custom has been spread in some areas so far.

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"Begging for Qiaojie Festival", also known as "Daughter's Day", is the most romantic festival among the traditional festivals in China, and it is also the most important day for girls in the past.

On a clear summer and autumn night, the stars are shining in the sky, and a vast white galaxy runs across the north and south. On the east and west banks of the river, there is a shining star, facing each other across the river, which is Altair and Vega. It is a folk custom to sit and watch the Petunia and the Weaver Girl on Tanabata. According to legend, this night every year is the time when the Weaver Girl and the Cowherd meet at the Magpie Bridge.

The Weaver Girl is a beautiful, intelligent and ingenious fairy. On this night, ordinary women ask her for wisdom and skillful skills, and they also ask her for a happy marriage. Therefore, the seventh day of July is also called the Begging Festival. It is said that on the night of Tanabata, you can look up and see the Milky Way where the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl meet, or you can eavesdrop on the love story when they meet in the sky under the melon and fruit shelf.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Chinese Valentine's Day