Chinese Valentine's Day is a traditional festival in our country. On July 7th, the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl met at the Magpie Bridge. In ancient times, Chinese Valentine's Day was mainly a festival attended by girls, and the content of the festival was mainly begging for cleverness and making wishes. Chinese Valentine's Day's story comes from the legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl. The Weaver Girl is a god who weaves in the sky. In ancient times, a woman had to be a needlework. If she couldn't be a needlework, she would feel humiliated. Therefore, on this day in Chinese Valentine's Day, she would pray for the God to teach her ingenious skills. In addition to eating some gourmet chocolates symbolizing love, Chinese Valentine's Day would also have some delicious food that she wished for her blessings.

first, the rooster. Since ancient times, it has been a custom in Chinese Valentine's Day to eat roosters. Every household kills a big rooster on this day, and then makes it into delicious food. It is said that the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl meet on Tanabata, which is the only day they look forward to most every year, so people hope that this day will be longer. The rooster crows is the beginning of a new day. If there is no rooster to announce the dawn, they will not be separated until the day is over. Therefore, in order to prevent the rooster from crowing, people have extended the custom of killing roosters.

second, begging for clever fruit. There are many kinds of Qiqiao fruits. According to legend, the Weaver Maid is a god who weaves good cloth. Young women will put Qiqiao fruits on the table in Chinese Valentine's Day on this day to pray. The types of Qiqiao fruits include melons and fruits, as well as pasta. The melons and fruits are fresh and crisp, and all kinds of beautiful patterns are carved on the surface of melons and fruits to show their ingenuity. In addition, flour and sugar are used to make some cakes with different shapes. Most of these fruit patterns are pinched out according to the legendary characters of Qixi, and all kinds of fancy food made on this day are called Qiqiao fruit.

third, mung bean sprouts. Mung bean sprouts, also known as "worship dishes", are very popular in Guangdong, China. On this day in Chinese Valentine's Day, not only should colored paper, medulla tetrapanacis and string be prepared, but also the seeds and mung beans will be put into a small box in advance, and then water will be added to soak them, and bean sprouts will gradually be born. When the bean sprouts are more than two inches long, they will be taken out and used for worship, commonly known as "worship of Xianhe" and "worship dishes".

fourth, rice noodles. In Chinese Valentine's Day, Nanjing has the custom of eating glutinous rice noodles, which is a snack, and now it is a must-have snack in many areas during the Spring Festival. Its raw materials are glutinous rice flour and bean flour, which are steamed after kneading, and then it is taken out and put into a stone mortar for continuous beating, and then it is taken out and kneaded into round strips, dried until it is stiff, then oil is put into the pot, the oil temperature is heated to 31%, and ginger rice strips are added to start frying, and then it can be taken out.