What traditional food should Chinese Valentine's Day eat 1, eat proper fruit?
Proper fruit is one of the festive foods in Chinese Valentine's Day, also known as Qixi Fruit and Qiqiao Fruit. It is not a kind of fruit, but a cake made of flour, oil, sugar and honey with various patterns related to the legend of Qixi, and then fried and fried. Before getting married, ancient women wanted to be skillful, so they "begged for ingenuity" by eating proper fruit, hoping that the Weaver Girl could give them a pair of skillful hands. Because of the homonym of "Qiao" and "Bridge", people think that eating proper fruit on Qixi Day can not only help the cowherd and the weaver girl meet at the bridge, but also realize their wishes through "Qiao (Bridge)".
2. Eat jiaozi
In Juancheng, Caoxian, Pingyuan and other places, seven good girls in Chinese Valentine's Day packed jiaozi together that day, and packed a copper coin, a needle and a red date into three jiaozi respectively. After the begging activities, they got together to eat jiaozi. It is said that they were blessed with money, skillful in eating needles and married early in eating dates.
3. Eat chicken
The folk custom of eating chicken again in Chinese Valentine's Day originated from Jinhua generation in Zhejiang Province. On Tanabata, every family will kill a rooster, which means that the cowherd and the weaver girl will never be separated unless the rooster announces the dawn, in order to pray that lovers will never be separated. In some places, there is a custom to buckle the cock on the day of Qixi, that is, to buckle your cock in the house with a basket to prevent it from crowing.
4. Eat rice noodles
Old Nanjing people want to eat glutinous rice strips on Tanabata. The glutinous rice noodles with bean flour, flour and maltose water are used to wake the glutinous rice noodles, then cut into pieces and rolled out, then cut into round strips, fried in an oil pan until slightly yellow, then boiled into syrup, poured into the fried glutinous rice noodles, stirred evenly and cooled, and served.
5, eat smart bud noodles
On Tanabata, some places want to eat smart sprout noodles. Make bean sprout soup with bean sprouts made seven days in advance, then grab the cooked handmade noodles into a bowl and pour the bean sprout soup. On this day, people in Linyi, Shandong Province will eat cloud noodles made of dew, and eating it can get clever meaning. It is said that seven noodles are eaten on Qixi Festival, and relatives are heart to heart. When eating noodles, you will also throw two magpies outside to reward the magpie bridge.
6, eat five children
On that day, girls and women in Chinese Valentine's Day would worship the Weaver Maid, silently praying for their sons, longevity, beauty or love. The offerings included fresh fruits and five sons (longan, red dates, hazelnuts, peanuts and melon seeds), which became their seasonal food after the worship.
7, eat melon
Tanabata is an old custom, and melons are carved into various patterns, such as exotic flowers and birds or embossed patterns. Other handy women will knead the dough into various kinds of pastry related to the legend of Qixi. Eating this kind of flower melon in Chinese Valentine's Day may contaminate other people's ingenuity and make you smart, which is also one of the meanings of eating flower melon in Chinese Valentine's Day.
8. Eat smart cakes
Qiaosu, commonly known as homo habilis, is a kind of crisp candy with the image of a woman made by a folk pastry shop during Qixi Festival. When it is sold, it is called "Send to homo habilis" to celebrate the meeting between Cowherd and Weaver Girl's Queqiao, and also to make balls for themselves.
9. Eat broad beans
In Chinese Valentine's Day, Fuzhou, there is a custom of "separating beans and becoming attached". On this day, neighbors and friends presented broad beans to each other and chatted with them in the moonlight as a souvenir. After eating broad beans, there will be no quarrel, and the previous grievances will disappear.
10, eat fried bean tea
Every Tanabata in Tongan, Xiamen, a traditional dish-fried bean tea is cooked, which symbolizes the sweetness of love and life.
1 1, eat pomegranate
In Dongshan Island, Fujian Province, almost every household in Chinese Valentine's Day buys Chinese medicine "Gentleman" and fruit "Pomegranate". On this day's dinner, the gentleman will cook crabs, small squid, or eggs, lean meat and pig intestines. After the party, adults will ask the younger generation to put pomegranate between the door leaf and the threshold, and the whole family will share it.
12, eat water chestnut
It is a traditional custom to taste water chestnut at the beginning of July in Taishan, Jiangmen. On the night of the sixth day of the seventh lunar month (the early morning of the seventh lunar month), every local household should worship God, which is called "the curtain fairy". Water chestnut, bean jelly and fruit are essential offerings.
13, Ma Lao
Ma Lao, whose correct name should be Ma Nuo, is a kind of cake unique to Longyan, Fujian, and a Chinese Valentine's Day food specially made to commemorate the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl. In Longyan area, parents should buy Ma Lao as a gift to their daughters a few days before the seventh day of July every year, especially in the first year after marriage, and send them in a small basket.