On the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, Valentine's Day in China is also called "Daughter's Day" and "Begging for Cleverness". In the old society, women had to worship the Weaver Maid to beg for ingenuity. Laizhou makes all kinds of "smart cakes" for ingenuity. Offering it on the sixth day of July, withdrawing it on July 7, and offering it again on July 14, meaning to send Sister Qiao away. The local unmarried girl will give it to her sister and brother-in-law, that is, the Weaver Cowherd. On July 7th, my in-laws will make smart cakes for my newly married daughter-in-law, and some will give ten cakes, noodles, fish and steamed buns. Qiaobing noodles are usually made of hair dye. When kneading dough, mix different colors such as carmine, yellow and fruit green into flour, knead into colorful dough, put it in a porcelain basin, and cover it with a grate curtain to prevent the dough surface from drying and hardening. In the past, Qiao cake and flour were seven colors, the juice of kidney bean leaves was green, and the black was black yeast powder of sorghum. Most of the colors used now are ready-made edible colors. When making smart cakes, a small piece of dough is pulled out from the dough, kneaded into strips on the panel, and the strips of several colors are glued together side by side. The agent is cut into the size of a fruit mold with a knife, pressed into the fruit mold, and knocked out by hand to form colorful smart cake noodles. Some people also coated the fruit mold with peanut oil to prevent the dough from sticking to the fruit mold. They also need to put a lotus root in the fruit mold and pull it by hand, so that the cake can be knocked out easily. Knock out smart cakes, hang them on the grate for a while, and then fry them in the oil pan. Qiao Bing is soft and golden yellow after frying. Other colors are no longer bright and the patterns are no longer clear. Some places in Jiaodong use molds to cut flour flowers, which are called "Tuoguo" and "noodle fish", and Mu Ping is called "Guoerzai". The fruit is plain, knocked out with a mold and baked in a pot, and hung on the wall in strings, which is both beautiful and a snack for children; The shape of fish is the most common among suitable fruits, so it is called "noodle fish". There are also many designs, such as poodle, wallet, Flo Xi Shou, kitten, pomegranate, lotus, lotus and cicada. Appropriate fruit, carved with a mold, is still widely spread in Yantai, Qingdao, Weifang, Weihai and other places in Shandong. The mold not only has wood such as pear wood and apple wood, but also has mud.

That is to say, the proper fruit in Shandong province is a noodle flower cut out of a mold, which is called locally.

I hope it helps you. Happy new year.