Qixi is also a traditional festival in China, and it is called "Valentine's Day" in China. On this day, lovers will give each other gifts. Tanabata, as a traditional festival in China, has many different customs in different places, such as "needling needles for skills" and "worshipping the weaver girl". Tanabata is not only full of customs, but also full of delicious food. Different customs, different food. So what traditional things do you eat on Tanabata? What do people in China usually eat on Tanabata?

jiaozi

As a traditional food in China, jiaozi is loved by everyone, especially in the north. As long as there are festivals, many people will buy jiaozi. In Juancheng, Cao Xian, Plain and other places, there is a custom of eating jiaozi on Tanabata. This way of wrapping jiaozi is different from our usual way. Usually, seven good girls put noodles and vegetables together to make jiaozi. When wrapping jiaozi, you need to prepare a coin, a needle and a red date, and wrap these three things in a jiaozi. Finally, people who eat coins are lucky, people who eat needles are ingenious, and people who eat red dates get married early. This is the first time I've heard that there are needles in jiaozi. I'm really worried about these seven girls.

Appropriate fruit

Appropriate fruit is the most famous food for Valentine's Day in China. Proper fruit, also known as "the fruit of begging for skills", has many styles. It is a common fried snack in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, and it is simple to make. Cut the dough into strips or squares, fry it in oil pan until golden brown, and sprinkle with sesame seeds and sugar. In the Song Dynasty, they were called "smiling children" and "patterns of eating fruit", including four elephants and Fang Sheng.

Because of the homonym of "Qiao" and "Qiao", the ancients thought that eating proper fruit on July 7th could not only help the cowherd and the weaver girl meet at the Magpie Bridge, but also realize their wishes through Qiao. In the evening, appropriate fruits, lotus, white lotus root, Hong Ling, etc. Will be placed in a clean yard, and relatives and friends at home will sit together. In the Song Dynasty, the unique fruit of Qixi was sold on the streets of the city. If you buy a catty of proper fruit, there will be a pair of dolls in armor, such as doormen, who are called "fruit-eating generals".

Qiao Ya Noodles

In addition to eating proper fruits, in some places, people eat Qiao Ya noodles on the seventh day of July. In order to make bean sprouts, seven days in advance, choose a small bowl of green beans that are not eaten by insects, wash them, spread them on the plate, cover them with wet gauze for shade, put them on the kang, and spray water several times a day to keep them moist. Seven days later, when the bean sprouts grow to two or three centimeters long, they can be made into handmade noodles, boiled in a pot and pulled out with cold water; Then put oil in a hot pan, add diced meat and stir-fry until cooked, add onion and ginger in the wok, stir-fry mung bean sprouts with soy sauce and vinegar in the wok, add water to boil, and then add salt and monosodium glutamate to make bean sprout soup; Grab the noodles in the bowl and pour them with bean sprout soup.

Yunmian

In Linyi, Shandong Province, there is a custom of eating Yunmian on Tanabata. The earliest cloud surface is said to be made of dew to show "begging skills" But now this way of making noodles should be changed. After all, there is not much dew and it is not clean. On Tanabata, everyone makes a bowl of noodles, which can be noodle soup, cold noodles or mixed noodles. Eating a bowl also means "a long time".

Wuzi

The "Wuzi" here refers to five kinds of dried fruits, namely longan, hazelnut, peanut, jujube and melon seeds. In Fujian, there is a custom of "worshipping Seven Sisters" on Tanabata in some places. People will worship with these dried fruits, and the worship activities will last until late at night. After the end, these dried fruits will become people's snacks.

Su Qiao

There are also many folk pastry shops, which like to make some sweet cakes with the image of a weaver girl, commonly known as "capable people" and "Su Qiao", and they are also called "sending capable people" when they are sold. This custom has been spread in some areas until now.

water chestnut

On the evening of July 7th, every family set up a table in the yard and placed offerings. Because water chestnut is homophonic with spirit, water chestnut is essential in offering. Girls peel water chestnuts and fight for immortals; Children chew water chestnut and drink plant vitality; Old people drink tea and eat water chestnut noodles

chicken

In order to express people's wishes

People in western Fujian like to eat something called Ma Lao on Tanabata. Its main ingredient is glutinous rice, which was skillfully made into "rice flavor" by the master. Boil with sugar and maltose, pour lard, and mix with "rice flavor", chopped green onion and peanuts. And quickly pressing the slices. Crispy glutinous rice, coated with rock sugar, wrapped in peanuts and sesame seeds. Every bite, you can hear the crunchy glutinous rice creaking in your mouth. They are telling you in the simplest way what is crispy and delicious and what can't stop at all.