Now Chinese Valentine's Day has become a festival symbolizing love, expressing people's yearning for a better life and love. In 2116, Chinese Valentine's Day was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list by the State Council. The following are the traditional foods and activities in Chinese Valentine's Day that I have compiled for you, hoping to help you.

Chinese Valentine's Day's traditional food

1, jiaozi

Juancheng, Caoxian, Pingyuan and other places are very interesting: seven good girls collect food and vegetables to wrap jiaozi, and wrap a copper coin, a needle and a red date into three dumplings respectively. After the begging activities, they get together to eat dumplings. It is said that they are lucky to eat money.

2. proper fruit

On this day, various small objects are made of flour, which are called "proper fruit" after frying in oil, and proper fruit, lotus, white lotus root and Hong Ling are displayed in the courtyard at night. 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. "Dream of China in Tokyo" refers to it as "laughing at children" and "fruit eating patterns", while the patterns include holding incense and winning.

3, clever bud noodles

In addition to eating proper fruit, in some places, clever bud noodles are eaten on the seventh day of July. To make bean sprouts for smart bud noodles, seven days in advance, choose a small bowl of mung beans that are not moth-eaten, clean it, spread it on a plate, cover it with wet gauze to block the sun, put it on the kang, and spray water several times a day to keep it moist. Seven days later, when the bean sprouts grow to two or three centimeters long, they can be made into handmade noodles, cooked in a pot and pulled through with cold water; Then put oil in a hot pan, add diced meat and stir-fry, stir-fry onion and ginger, stir-fry soy sauce and vinegar, stir-fry mung bean sprouts, add water and boil, then add salt and monosodium glutamate to make bean sprout soup; Grab the noodles into a bowl and pour them with bean sprout soup.

4. Yunmian

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

5. Jiangmi Tiao

Old Nanjing people also have a unique custom of celebrating Tanabata: eating Jiangmi Tiao. Jiang Mi Tiao is a snack of Han nationality, which is made by steaming glutinous rice flour with bean flour in a stew pot, beating it with a stick in a stone mortar, drying it in the sun and frying it in oil, and finally dipping it in red bean paste such as plum blossom, pine blossom and sesame.

6. Qiaosu

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

7. Melons and fruits

On this special festival of Qixi, fruits and fruits are of course essential! There are also many changes in the melons and fruits eaten on Tanabata. Some people like to carve melons and fruits into exotic flowers and birds, or draw "flower melons" with embossed patterns on the surface of melon skins.

8. Chicken

In order to express people's wish that the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl can live a happy and happy family life every day, in Jinhua, Zhejiang, every family will kill a chicken on July 7, which means that the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl will meet on this night, and if there is no cock to announce the dawn, they will never be separated.

9. Wuzi

Worshiping the Weaver Girl on Tanabata is an important event for young 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.

11, mung bean sprouts

In Guangzhou, before the festival comes, girls prepare colorful paper, medulla tetrapanacis, string, etc. in advance, and weave all kinds of ingenious gadgets. They also put rice seeds and mung beans in small boxes and soak them in water to germinate them. When the buds grow to more than two inches long, they are used to worship the gods, which are called "worshipping Xianhe" and "worshipping the gods".

What activities are there in Chinese Valentine's Day?

Needle-piercing for cleverness

Actually, this is also the earliest way to beg for cleverness. In this activity, even the earliest one started in the Han Dynasty. Up to now, many people still like to do it quickly.

Spider-like spiders should be clever

At the time of Chinese Valentine's Day, at night, even with this clever spider, and at this time, some bones are directly placed in the courtyard of the hall, and then spiders are used to make webs. If there is a lot of honey, it is even more clever.

worship kuixing

worship kuixing, in fact, the real system itself is mainly a direct worship on this day, and even the exams that can make you more arrogant and better.

Needle-throwing and skill-testing

In fact, it is also a direct change of fax-begging, and it is also a custom in Chinese Valentine's Day that was popular mainly in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and it is also a custom that was made mainly at noon.

Night Fight at Lan

In fact, this game is mainly a game in a court in the Han Dynasty, and all the colored lines are directly accompanied, and in this case, there is a clever activity to learn this together, and this is mainly a problem of learning this directly.

seed seeking

seed seeking actually came from an activity a few days before tanabata, and all of them put some mung beans or some wheat directly in a bowl, so that they can be directly born, or even borrowed.

For Niu Qingsheng

In fact, for Chinese Valentine's Day, it is said that it is the birthday of the cow, and the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl all have the business of a girl, and it is also directly because there is a sacrifice for the Cowherd to go directly to see the Weaver Girl.

drying books and clothes

In addition to the above activities, in fact, more and more people like to have books and clothes on Tanabata, and this actually means that it is simply similar to showing love in a circle of friends or drying their babies, so it is mainly for wealth.

To worship grinding and drinking music

In fact, these are some small toys from some children in the folk in the past, which are directly related to the fact that more children like to play with them.

Chinese Valentine's Day's fairy tale

Chinese Valentine's Day has always been connected with the legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl. This is a beautiful love story that has been handed down through the ages and has become one of the four major folk love legends in China.

According to legend, a long time ago, there was a clever and honest young man in Niujiazhuang, west of Nanyang City. His parents died early, so he had to live with his brother and sister-in-law. His sister-in-law Ma Shi was vicious and often abused him, forcing him to do a lot of work. One autumn, his sister-in-law forced him to herd cattle and gave him nine cows, but he didn't go home until he had ten cows. The Cowherd had no choice but to drive them out of the village.

Cowherd drove the cows into the mountain alone. On the mountain with deep grass and dense forests, he sat under the tree and was sad. He didn't know when he could drive ten cows home. At this time, an old man with white hair and beard appeared in front of him and asked him why he was sad. When he learned what had happened to him, he smiled and said to him, "Don't be sad. There is a sick old cow in Funiu Mountain. You should feed it well until the old cow gets sick."

Cowherd walked a long way over mountains and mountains, and finally found the sick old cow. Seeing that the old cow was seriously ill, he went to fetch bundles of grass for the old cow. After feeding it for three days, the old cow looked up and told him that he was a big fairy in the sky, but he was sent down to the sky because he broke the rules of heaven, and broke his leg and could not move. His injury needs to be washed with dew of flowers for a month. Cowherd took care of old Niu Yi carefully for a month, collecting flowers for the old cow during the day and sleeping next to the old man at night. When the old cow recovered, Cowherd happily drove ten cows home.

After returning home, my sister-in-law was still unkind to him. She harmed him several times and was rescued by the old cow. My sister-in-law finally became angry and drove the cowherd out of the house, and the cowherd only wanted the old cow to accompany him.

One day, the Weaver Girl in the sky played games with the fairies and took a bath in the river. With the help of the old cow, the Cowherd got to know the Weaver Girl, and they had mutual affection. Later, the Weaver Girl secretly came to earth and became the wife of the Cowherd. The Weaver Girl also distributed the wild silkworms brought from the sky to everyone, and taught everyone to raise silkworms, spin silks and weave bright silks and satins.

After the marriage of Cowherd and Weaver Girl, men plowed and women wove, and they had a boy, a girl and two children, and the family lived happily. But the good times didn't last long, and it soon made the Emperor of Heaven know that the heavenly queen herself came down to earth and forcibly brought the Weaver Girl back to heaven, and the loving couple were separated.

Cowherd has no way to heaven, or the old cow told Cowherd that after his death, he could make shoes out of his skin and wear them to heaven. Cowherd did as the old cow said, put on shoes made of cowhide, and took his children with him. When he saw that he was about to catch up, I'm afraid the Queen Mother pulled out the golden hairpin on her head, and a choppy Tianhe appeared. Cowherd and Weaver were separated on both sides, and they could only cry relatively. Their loyal love touched the magpies, and thousands of magpies flew in to build a magpie bridge, so that the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl could meet on the magpie bridge. The Queen Mother had no choice but to allow them to meet on July 7 every year.

Later, on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, it is said that the cowherd and the weaver girl meet at the Magpie Bridge, the girls will come to the flowers and the moon, look up at the stars and look for the cowherd and the weaver girl on both sides of the Milky Way, hoping to see their annual meeting, begging God to be as ingenious as the weaver girl and praying for a happy marriage, thus forming Chinese Valentine's Day.