1, proper fruit: proper fruit is a festive food for Qiqiao on Tanabata, and proper fruit is also called "Qiqiao Fruit". The main materials are oil, flour, sugar and honey, and there are many styles. On Tanabata night, people bring "fruit begging for cleverness" to the courtyard, and the whole family sit around and taste the craftsmanship of being a "proper fruit". Before getting married, ancient women wanted to be skillful, so they "begged for ingenuity" by eating proper fruit, hoping that the Weaver Girl could give them a pair of skillful hands.
2. Crispy candy: On Tanabata, some folk pastry shops will make some crisp candy with the image of Weaver Girl, commonly known as "homo habilis" and "Qiao Crispy", and when they sell it, they are also called "Send it to homo habilis". People believe that people who eat this kind of crisp candy will become ingenious.
3. Qiaoqiao Rice: In Shandong, Qiaoqiao rice is eaten on Tanabata, and the custom of begging is: seven good girls collect food and set food bags in jiaozi, and put a copper coin, a needle and a red date into three dumplings respectively. After the begging activities, they get together to eat dumplings. It is said that they are blessed with money, skillful with needles and early married with dates.
4. Eating flowers and melons: Skillful women in Chinese Valentine's Day will carve melons and fruits into exotic birds, or embossment patterns on the surface of melons and fruits to worship weaver girls and entertain guests, which is called "flowers and melons".
5. Eating Wuzi: Wuzi refers to melon seeds, peanuts, red dates, longan and hazelnuts. Wuzi is essential in the worship offerings of Chinese Valentine's Day's "Worship to the Weaver Girl". After burning incense and offering sacrifices, these tributes also become snack food.