1, proper fruit
This should be the most familiar Qixi food, which is made of flour into various small objects and then fried in oil. There is also a name called "Qiqiao Fruit".
2. jiaozi
The customs of begging for cleverness in Juancheng, Caoxian, Pingyuan and other places are very interesting. Seven good girls put 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 it is blessed to eat money, and it is skillful to eat needles and early to eat dates.
3. Rice noodles
There is also a unique custom for old Nanjing people to eat glutinous rice strips on Tanabata. 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 bean paste such as plum blossom, pine blossom and sesame.
4, clever bud noodles
In addition to eating proper fruit, in some places, on the seventh day of July, we eat smart bud noodles. 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.
5. Wuzi
"Worship the Weaver Girl" on Tanabata is an important event for 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 incense burning and silent prayer, these offerings become midnight snack food.
6. Chicken
Killing chickens is a beautiful vision for people, which means that the cowherd and the weaver girl will meet this night, and there will be no crowing at dawn, so they can never be separated. Only Jinhua, Zhejiang Province has this custom.