1, proper fruit
The elders all say: On July 7th, eat proper fruit, with exquisite heart and wisdom fruit.
Proper fruit should be the most appropriate food for Tanabata. After all, it is also called Tanabata Fruit, also called Qiqiao Fruit. Its appearance also looks beautiful, which is a pattern related to Qixi. It is a pastry made of flour, named "Qiqiao". It is an ancient woman who prayed that the Weaver Girl would give her a pair of skillful hands. Eating proper fruit in Chinese Valentine's Day, Qiaoqiao can realize his wish.
2, clever bud noodles
In some places, there will be the custom of eating smart bud noodles on Tanabata. This "bud" is actually bean sprouts. Bean sprout soup made of bean sprouts is used as the topping of noodles, and handmade noodles are chosen for noodles with clever buds. It is said that noodles are eaten on Tanabata, because the noodles are soft and slender, which means that the family is connected with each other. If you meet a magpie on this day, you can also give it two noodles to thank it for building a magpie bridge to meet the cowherd and the weaver girl.
3. Qiaosu
It is said that there were many qiaosu in ancient times, which were generally sold by the people. Folk pastry shops will make crisp candy with a similar image to that of women on Tanabata, and call it "homo habilis". Generally, women will like to buy them to celebrate the meeting between the cowherd and the weaver girl. Some women will also pray for their own happiness. Eating smart cakes on Tanabata must be very happy in the future.
4. Eat jiaozi on Tanabata (Qiaoqiao Rice)
As the saying goes, "Don't ask what to eat for the holidays, just ask and eat jiaozi!"
Eating jiaozi is a custom of begging for cleverness in Juancheng, Caoxian and Pingyuan, but it is very interesting: seven good girls collect food and vegetables, jiaozi, and put a copper coin, a needle and a red date into three dumplings respectively. After the begging for cleverness, they get together to eat dumplings. It is said that they are blessed with money, skillful with needles and early married with dates.
5, eat hemp old
Ma Lao, the correct name should be Ma Nuo, a Chinese Valentine's Day food born to commemorate the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl. In Longyan area, parents buy Ma Lao for their daughters a few days before the seventh day of July every year, especially in the first year of marriage, and they also pack them in small baskets and give them a whole basket of blessings.
6. Flower melon
Tanabata is an old custom, and melons are carved into various patterns, such as exotic flowers and birds or embossed patterns. Other handy women will knead the dough into various kinds of pastry related to the legend of Qixi. Eating this kind of flower melon in Chinese Valentine's Day may contaminate other people's ingenuity and make you smart, which is also one of the meanings of eating flower melon in Chinese Valentine's Day.
Finally, let's talk about how we Fujian people spend Tanabata!
In Fujian, Chinese Valentine's Day not only eats proper fruit, but also eats broad beans, because the homonym of broad beans is "entangled in beans" and "separated beans become attached" is a unique custom in our side.
On this day in Chinese Valentine's Day, neighbors and friends give each other broad beans and chat with them in the moonlight as a souvenir. After eating broad beans, there will be no quarrel, and the previous grievances will disappear. Men and women who are in love will also eat a handful of broad beans, which means that good things are tightly entangled and never separated.
When I was a child, every time around Tanabata, my family would make a pot of spiced broad beans, and then give them to acquaintances and neighbors, and said, "Get attached, get attached." I hope that the neighbors will have a happy relationship and a good relationship, and they will always be harmonious and friendly. Now I live in a high-rise building, and the neighbors don't know each other very well. I miss the laughter and the good affection between the villagers and neighbors at that time.