Introduction: The seventh day of the seventh lunar month is the most romantic traditional festival in China-Chinese Valentine's Day, also known as "Begging for Clevership Festival". Chinese Valentine's Day's food customs vary from place to place, and they are generally called clever food. Among them, jiaozi, noodles, avocados, wonton and other foods are used for this festival. The following is the introduction of 11 kinds of traditional food on Tanabata, which I carefully arranged for you. Welcome to refer to it!

1. jiaozi

Juancheng, Caoxian, Pingyuan and other places are very clever. However, the customs are very interesting: seven good girls collect food and set food packages, jiaozi, and wrap a copper coin, a needle and a jujube into three dumplings respectively. After the clever activities, they get together to eat dumplings. It is said that they are lucky to eat money, and they are skillful in eating needles and jujube.

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, you should choose a small bowl of mung beans that are not eaten by insects seven days in advance, wash them, spread them on a plate, cover them with wet gauze to block the sun, 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, 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 the seeds of cereals and mung beans in a small box 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 the immortals" and "worshipping the gods".