The Evening Festival, also known as the Begging for Clevership Festival, is a romantic festival with traditional culture. For the romance and sense of ceremony in life, we often eat appropriate food on festivals. What shall we eat on Tanabata?

1. proper fruit

The elders all say: On July 7th, eating proper fruit is exquisite in heart and fruit of wisdom.

proper fruit should be the most appropriate food for Tanabata. After all, it is also known as Tanabata Fruit, also called Qiqiao Fruit. Its appearance also looks beautiful, which is a pattern related to Qixi. It is a pastry made of flour, named "Qiqiao". It is an ancient woman who prayed that the Weaver Girl would give her a pair of skillful hands. Eating proper fruit in Chinese Valentine's Day, Qiaoqiao can realize his wish.

2. Qiaoya noodles

In some places, there is the custom of eating Qiaoya noodles on Tanabata. This "bud" is actually bean sprouts. Bean sprout soup made of bean sprouts is used as the topping of noodles, and handmade noodles are chosen for noodles with clever buds. It is said that noodles are eaten on Tanabata, because the noodles are soft and slender, which means that the family is connected with each other. If you meet a magpie on this day, you can also give it two noodles to thank it for building a magpie bridge to meet the cowherd and the weaver girl.

3. Qiaosu

It is said that there were many Qiaosu in ancient times, which were generally sold by the people. Folk pastry shops will make crisp candy with a similar image to that of women on Tanabata, and call it "homo habilis". Generally, women will like to buy them to celebrate the meeting between the cowherd and the weaver girl. Some women will also pray for their own happiness. Eating smart cakes on Tanabata must be very happy in the future.

4. Eat jiaozi on Tanabata (Qiao Qiao Fan)

As the saying goes, "Don't ask what to eat on holidays, just ask for jiaozi!"

Eating jiaozi is a custom of begging for cleverness in Juancheng, Caoxian, Pingyuan and other places, but it is very interesting: seven good girls collect food and vegetables, and wrap a copper coin, a needle and a red date into three dumplings respectively. After begging for cleverness, they get together to eat dumplings. It is said that they are blessed with money, skillful with needles and early marriage with dates.

5. Eating Ma Lao

Ma Lao, the correct name should be Ma Nuo, which is a Chinese Valentine's Day food born to commemorate the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl. In Longyan area, parents buy Ma Lao for their daughters a few days before the seventh day of July every year, especially in the first year of marriage, and they also pack them in small baskets and give them a whole basket of blessings.

6. Flower melon

The old custom of Tanabata is clever, and the melon is carved into various patterns, such as exotic flowers and birds or embossed patterns. Other handy women will knead the dough into various kinds of pastry related to the legend of Qixi. Eating this kind of flower melon in Chinese Valentine's Day may contaminate other people's ingenuity and make you smart, which is also one of the meanings of eating flower melon in Chinese Valentine's Day.

Finally, let's talk about how we Fujian people spend Tanabata!

In Fujian, Chinese Valentine's Day not only eats proper fruit, but also eats broad beans, because the homonym of broad beans is "entangled in beans" and "separated beans become attached" is a unique custom in our place.

On this day in Chinese Valentine's Day, neighbors and friends give each other broad beans and eat them in the moonlight to chat as a souvenir. After eating broad beans, there will be no quarrel, and the previous grievances will disappear. Men and women who are in love will also eat a handful of broad beans, which means that good things are tightly entangled and never separated.

When I was a child, every time around Qixi, my family would make a pot of spiced broad beans and then give them to my acquaintances and neighbors, saying, "Get attached, get attached." I hope that the neighbors will have a happy relationship and a good relationship, and they will always be harmonious and friendly. Now I live in a high-rise building, and the neighbors don't know each other very well. I miss the laughter and the good affection between the villagers and neighbors at that time.