What traditional food should China eat on Valentine's Day? 1. Eat proper fruit.
Just as fruit is one of the festival foods of Valentine's Day in China, it is also called Qixi fruit and Georgie fruit. It is not a fruit, but a cake made of flour, oil, sugar and honey, with various patterns related to the legend of Qixi, and then fried and fried. Before getting married, ancient women wanted to have a pair of skillful hands, so they "begged for ingenuity" by eating appropriate fruits, hoping that the Weaver Girl would give them a pair of skillful hands. Because "Qiao" and "Bridge" are homophonic, people think that eating proper fruits on Qixi Day can not only help cowherd and weaver girl meet on the bridge, but also realize their wishes through "Qiao (Bridge)".
Step 2 Eat jiaozi
In Juancheng, Cao Xian, Pingyuan and other places, seven good girls wrapped jiaozi together on Tanabata Day, and wrapped a copper coin, a needle and a red date into three jiaozi respectively. After the begging, they got together to eat jiaozi. It is said that they are rich, good at eating needles, eating dates and getting married early.
Step 3 eat chicken
The folk custom of eating chicken again on Tanabata originated from Jinhua generation in Zhejiang Province. On Tanabata, every family will kill a rooster, which means that unless the rooster announces dawn, the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl will never be separated, in order to pray that lovers will never be separated. In some places, there is a custom of tying the cock on Qixi, that is, keeping your cock in the house with a basket to prevent it from crowing.
Step 4 eat rice noodles
Old Nanjing people want to eat sticky rice strips on Tanabata. Stir the glutinous rice flour with bean flour, flour and maltose water, then slice it and roll it out, then cut it into round strips, fry it in an oil pan until it is slightly yellow, then cook it into syrup, pour it into the fried glutinous rice flour, stir it evenly and cool it, and then eat it.
5, eat smart bud noodles
On Tanabata, some places want to eat smart and cute noodles. Make bean sprout soup with bean sprouts made seven days in advance, and then grab the cooked handmade noodles into a bowl and pour the bean sprout soup. On this day, people in Linyi, Shandong Province will eat cloud noodles made of dew, and eating it can gain ingenious meanings. It is said that Chinese Valentine's Day eats seven bowls of noodles, and his relatives are heart to heart. When eating noodles, you will throw two magpies outside to reward the magpie bridge.
6. Eat five children
On this day, girls and women will worship Vega on Valentine's Day in China, silently praying for their sons' longevity, beauty or love. The offerings include fresh fruit and five sons (longan, red dates, hazelnuts, peanuts and melon seeds), which became the seasonal food after their worship.
7. Eat melons
Tanabata is an ancient custom. Melons are carved into various patterns, such as exotic flowers and birds or embossed patterns. Other handy women will knead dough into various cakes related to the legend of Qixi. Eating this kind of melon on Tanabata may pollute other people's ingenuity and make you smart, which is also one of the meanings of eating melon on Tanabata.
8. Eat smart cakes
Su Qiao, commonly known as capable person, is a kind of crisp candy with female image made by folk pastry shops during Chinese Valentine's Day. When selling it, it's called "sending talented people" to celebrate the meeting between the cowherd and the weaver girl and make their own meatballs.
9. eat broad beans
In Chinese Valentine's Day and Fuzhou, there is a custom of "parting beans and becoming attached". On this day, neighbors and friends presented broad beans to each other and chatted in the moonlight as a souvenir. After eating broad beans, there will be no more quarrels, and the previous grievances will disappear.
10, eat fried bean tea
Tongan in Xiamen cooks a traditional dish-fried bean tea every Tanabata, which symbolizes the sweetness of love and life.
1 1 eat pomegranate
In Dongshan Island, Fujian, almost every household in Chinese Valentine's Day will buy Chinese medicine "Gentleman" and fruit "Pomegranate". On this day's dinner, Mr. Wang will cook crabs, small squid, or eggs, lean meat and pork intestines. After the party, adults will ask the younger generation to put pomegranate between the door leaf and the threshold and share it with the whole family.
12, eat water chestnut
Tasting water chestnut in early July is a traditional custom in Taishan, Jiangmen. On the night of the sixth day of the seventh lunar month (the morning of the seventh day of the seventh lunar month), every local household should worship God, which is called the "screen fairy". Water chestnut, bean jelly and fruit are essential sacrifices.
Ma Lao 13
Ma Lao, whose correct name should be Mano, is a kind of cake unique to Longyan, Fujian, and it is a China Valentine's Day food specially made to commemorate the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl. In Longyan area, parents should buy Malao as a gift for their daughters a few days before July 7 every year, especially in the first year of marriage, and give them a small basket.