1, dumplings

Jancheng, Cao County, plains and other places to beg for coincidence of the custom but very interesting: seven good girl set food set vegetable dumplings, a coin, a needle and a jujube were wrapped in three dumplings, begging for coincidence after the event, they get together to eat dumplings, the legend of the money to eat the blessing of the hands of the needle to eat the hand of the clever to eat to the jujube of the early marriage.

2, coquettish fruit

Zhejiang all over the day in the flour system of a variety of small objects, fried in oil called "coquettish fruit", the evening in the courtyard display coquettish fruit, lotus seed, white lotus root, red rhombus and so on. Qiaoguo is the most famous food for the Tanabata festival. Qiaoguo is also known as "Begging Fruit" and has many styles. The main ingredients are oil, flour, sugar and honey. In the Tokyo Dreaming Book, it is called "Laughing Aversion" and "Fruit and Food Patterns", and there are drawings such as "Pressing Fragrance" and "Fang Sheng".

3, Qiaoba noodles

In addition to eating Qiaoguo, some places, the seventh day of the seventh month to eat Qiaoba noodles. Do Qiaobao noodles with bean sprouts, to seven days in advance of the birth of a small bowl of mung beans without insects, washed, flat to a plate, covered with wet gauze to block the sun, put on the kangtou, sprayed several times a day so that the water to keep it moist. Seven days later, when the bean sprouts grow to two or three centimeters long, you can do hand-rolled noodles, cooked in a pot, over cool water to pull through; and then hot pot of oil, add diced meat fried, onions, ginger, soy sauce, vinegar chili sauce, put the mung bean sprouts fried, add water to boil, add salt, monosodium glutamate, made into bean sprouts soup; grab the noodles into a bowl, poured on the bean sprouts soup can be eaten.

4, cloud noodles

Jiaodong people eat Qiaoguozi on Tanabata, Linyi people eat cloud noodles on Tanabata. Eat cloud noodle, this noodle has to be made of dew, eat it can get coquettish.

5, Jiangmizi

Old Nanjing people have a unique custom for Tanabata: eating Jiangmizi. Jiangmi is a Han snack, with glutinous rice flour and bean flour and noodles in the crock pot after steaming out, put in a stone mortar with a stick whacking, and then culminate into a round, sun-drying with oil fried out, and finally dipped in plum blossom _ pine _ sesame and other bean paste made from a kind of food.

6, coquettish

There are also many folk pastry store, like to make some of the image of the weaver's pastry, commonly known as "coquettish" "coquettish", when sold, also known as "send coquettish! ", this custom in some areas has been passed down to this day.

7, fruits and melons

In the Tanabata special festival, fruits and melons are of course essential! There are many variations of fruits and melons eaten on the eve of the seventh day of the seventh month, and some people like to carve the fruits and melons into exotic flowers and birds, or in relief on the surface of the melon skin patterns such as painted "flower melon".

8, chicken

In order to express people's hope that the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden can live a good and happy family life every day, in the area of Jinhua, Zhejiang Province, the seventh day of the seventh month of July, every family has to kill a chicken, meaning that this night the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden, if there is no rooster at dawn, they will be able to never be separated.

9, the five children

July 7 "to worship the Weaving Maiden" is a major event for young girls and young women. Offerings include tea, wine, fresh fruits, etc. The five seeds (cinnamon, jujubes, hazelnuts, peanuts, melon seeds) are even more indispensable, and after burning incense and worshipping and praying silently, these offerings become the food for their late-night snacks.

10, mung bean sprouts

In Guangzhou, before the festival, the girls are prepared in advance with colorful paper, grass, string, etc., compiled into a variety of curious small artifacts, but also grain seeds and mung beans into a small box soaked in water, so that the germination, to be buds grow to more than two inches long, when used to worship the gods, known as the "worship of the immortal Harvest" and "worship of the divine dish". The first thing you need to do is to make sure that you have a good understanding of what you are doing and how you are doing it.