The festival food of Chinese Valentine's Day is vegetarian noodles.

Surprisingly, it has been a food for Chinese Valentine's Day since a thousand years ago.

There are many customs of eating seasonal foods during festivals to ward off evil spirits and pray for good health and misfortunes, and delicious somen noodles in summer are one of them.

Because it is suitable for this period when appetite is reduced due to the hot summer, it can also be regarded as the Milky Way or the Weaver Girl's spinning thread.

The origin of Somen is said to be a flour dish called "Sobi" from China (Sobi refers to noodles).

So means twisting a rope, and is considered a rope-like flour snack.

According to ancient Chinese legend, "The emperor's son who died on July 7th became a spirit ghost, causing fever to spread. Therefore, if the child's favorite cake is offered as a sacrifice, and if you eat the cake on July 7, you will be free from illness and disaster for a year."

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Somochi was introduced to Japan during the Nara period, and was introduced to the palace at the same time as the custom of making wheat cakes during the wheat harvest.

Soon, the cakes changed to plain noodles, so they ate plain noodles on Chinese Valentine's Day.

In addition, some people compare some noodles to the Milky Way and the Weaver Girl's thread, and there is a saying that eating some noodles on Chinese Valentine's Day.

When cooking some noodles, it’s also great to add ingredients related to Chinese Valentine’s Day.

Okra, a summer vegetable, if cut into round slices, the cut will turn into a star shape, which is very suitable for Chinese Valentine's Day.

If you take carrots, cucumbers, etc. out of a star-shaped mold and scatter them, a galaxy of shining stars of various colors will be formed.

It is compared to the Weaver Girl and the Cowherd, and can be enjoyed with ham, fish cakes, etc. that children love.

Decorating with bamboo leaves will be very elegant and will arouse appetite.

The colored plain surface, like the five-color short note, contains the meaning of eliminating disasters from the five colors of Yin and Yang.

Originally, the five colors "green, red, yellow, white, and black" were enshrined, but later one of them was used.