Chinese Valentine's Day, also known as "Begging for Clevership Festival", is the most romantic festival among the traditional festivals in China. According to legend, the night of the seventh day of the seventh lunar month every year is the time when the "Weaver Girl" and the "Cowherd" meet in the sky. "Weaver Girl" is a beautiful, intelligent and ingenious fairy. On this night, ordinary women begged her for wisdom and skill, and also asked her for a happy marriage.

Fewer and fewer people celebrate this festival. In the 1951s and 1961s, on this day, Chinatown was decorated with lanterns and colorful decorations, and it was like a fairyland. Seven Sisters' Clubs from different regions gathered here to lay down all kinds of colorful incense tables to pay homage to the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl. The incense tables were all paper-pasted, filled with flowers, fruits, rouge powder, paper-made small flowered clothes, shoes, daily necessities and embroidery. The "Seven Sisters' Clubs" in different regions will work hard on the incense table to see who makes it exquisitely. Today, this kind of activity has been forgotten, and only a few Zongxiang Guilds still set up incense tables on this festival to worship the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl. The incense table is usually prepared on the seventh day of July, and in the evening, it begins to beg the Weaver Maid.

Because Chinese Valentine's Day is closely related to women's affairs, it is also called "Daughter's Day". Chinese Valentine's Day has the custom of eating smart food. The contents of clever food include melons and fruits and various kinds of pasta, and customs vary from place to place. After all kinds of clever food are made, they should be displayed on several cases in the courtyard, as if to invite the weaver girl in the sky to taste it. Then, while watching the distant night sky, everyone eats all kinds of clever food, thinking that this will make people smart.

Seven "clever" foods

Clever

Paris, France is famous for its romance, and in this romantic country, there is naturally a dessert as sweet as love. French desserts are not only sweet and fragrant in taste, but also cute and cute in shape.

Recommended dish: vanilla-flavored cream caramel pear

This is a snack full of French romance. The crystal plough is rich in sweetness, and the refreshing mint-leaf blueberry and the sweet and attractive aroma of raspberries form a perfect combination. Its shape resembles a clever white rabbit standing on the full moon and watching the love story of the world. Couples eat it layer by layer, as if enjoying the process of falling in love.

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The same feature of Hunan cuisine is spicy food, which is characterized by heavy oil and strong color, and pays attention to benefits; And its dishes are made of a wide range of materials, so Hunan cuisine often sees dishes with strange and ingenious materials and practices.

Recommended dishes: Birds and Fish This is a "love dish" for couples in Chinese Valentine's Day. The main ingredient of this dish is cooked with fish fins and tails. Before serving, pour a layer of red and authentic Hunan spicy sauce. The appearance of the dish is like pairs of love wings fluttering in the red clouds, symbolizing the happy love of fly with me.

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since ancient times, there has been a custom of displaying melons and fruits to beg for the skill of the weaver girl, and today melons and fruits have also begun to "lose weight". Small apples, small oranges, small watermelons weighing one kilogram, and cherry tomatoes with a diameter of two centimeters are petite in appearance, but they taste better than ordinary melons and fruits. You can prepare some small pocket melons and fruits in the evening when the vegetation is fragrant, and spend a good time with him or her in the wild.

recommended melons and fruits: watermelons, tomatoes and other melons and fruits can provide enough water for human body, which can not only relieve summer heat, but also satisfy the taste. On the night of the festival, eating some watermelon, fruit and other reunion fruits can pray for a happy, sweet and safe life.

Delicate

Shanghai cuisine combines the strengths of many families, which can be described as "all kinds of customs". It pays attention to live, raw and fresh materials, mellow soup and exquisite dishes, which are most suitable for couples to savor in romantic festivals.

Recommended dish: Fried eel paste, also called fried eel paste, is a traditional dish in old Shanghai. When it's done, you need to press a nest in the eel paste, put chopped green onion and hot oil, and put shredded ginger on the side. When serving, the boiled oil will make the chopped green onion creak. At this time, the fragrance will overflow and the enthusiasm in your heart will naturally surge. Tasting on Tanabata can not only experience the happiness brought by traditional food, but also enjoy the taste of historical precipitation.

dexterity

When couples get together and eat a plate of knife dishes, they can appreciate the exquisite craftsmanship and slowly appreciate the ingenious coexistence of their world.

Recommended dish: beef ball with golden dragon This is a fashionable new dish, which is characterized by knife work and taste. Dipped in tomato sauce when eating, Chinese Valentine's Day tasted this dish naturally with a sweet taste, symbolizing a happy reunion.

Exquisite

French dishes are famous for their exquisiteness and chic, and their craftsmanship is very meticulous. When eating, they not only enjoy their appetite, but also provide exquisite life enjoyment for couples with authentic gentleman service. "Exquisite" also belongs to it.

Recommended dish: The secret foie gras dish, foie gras, is a symbol of French cuisine. In order to balance the greasy foie gras, the chef boldly grinds black pepper into powder and makes the foie gras into balls, which is very playful and very popular among young people. The "exquisiteness" of this French dish comes from humorous design, and the chef also put two "changing wings" on the top of the ball, which greatly relaxed the mood of fashionable men and women who are nervous about their lives and work during this meal.

Every coincidence is a book

Every story in the world needs a word "coincidence". The marriage between people and the meeting of lovers are not matched by the word "Qiao". Girls want to be smart, so they "beg for cleverness" in Chinese Valentine's Day; Couples hope to be happy and happy, so they come to the moon to wait for the meeting between the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl. Meet with food, why not rely on a "clever" word.

There are too many coincidences in life. Whether it is "small" or "clever", the birth of "Seven Clever" food itself has been synthesized by the ingenious ideas of countless gourmets and chefs. Looking for all kinds of "clever" food, we can't help but sigh: the cleverness of food lies outside this food. In the world, there are countless kinds of "clever" foods, and all we do is to attract jade. The so-called "coincidence is not a book", all kinds of delicious food, all kinds of real taste, but also rely on gourmets to savor it themselves.

Tanabata food customs

proper fruit is the most famous among the foods that should be celebrated on Tanabata. During the Song Dynasty, proper fruit was already sold in the market. proper fruit's practice was: first, put sugar in a pot and melt it into syrup, then mix it with flour and sesame seeds, spread it on the table, cool it, cut it into long squares with a knife, and finally fold it into spindle-shaped proper fruit embryos and fry it until golden. In addition, there are many changes in the melons and fruits used in begging for cleverness: either the melons and fruits are carved into exotic flowers and birds, or the surface of the melon skin is embossed with patterns; This kind of melon is called "flower melon".