Guide: For foodies, it doesn't matter much whether Tanabata is Valentine's Day or not. What traditional food they eat on Tanabata is the main point of their concern. As a traditional festival, the food handed down from generation to generation in Chinese Valentine's Day must be the most suitable and delicious food. If you want to know what seasonal food people will eat in Chinese Valentine's Day, please take a look at my introduction.

1. proper fruit

On this day, various small objects are made of flour, which are called "proper fruit" after frying in oil, and proper fruit, lotus, white lotus root and Hong Ling are displayed in the courtyard at night. Proper fruit is the most famous festive food for the Qixi Festival. Proper fruit, also known as "Kiki Kiki Fruit", has many styles. The main materials are oil, flour, sugar and honey. "Dream of China in Tokyo" refers to it as "laughing at children" and "fruit eating patterns", while the patterns include holding incense and winning.

2. 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 burning incense and praying silently, these offerings become their midnight snack food.

3, clever bud noodles

In addition to eating proper fruit, in some places, clever bud noodles are eaten on the seventh day of July. 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, cooked in a pot and pulled through with cold water; Then put oil in a hot pan, add diced meat and stir-fry, stir-fry onion and ginger, stir-fry soy sauce and vinegar, stir-fry mung bean sprouts, add water and boil, then add salt and monosodium glutamate to make bean sprout soup; Grab the noodles into a bowl and pour them with bean sprout soup.

4. Yunmian

Jiaodong people eat clever fruits on Tanabata, while Linyi people eat Yunmian on Tanabata. Eat cloud noodles, which have to be made of dew, and you can get clever meaning by eating it.

5. Jiangmi Tiao

Old Nanjing people also have a unique custom of celebrating Tanabata: eating Jiangmi Tiao. 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 red bean paste such as plum blossom, pine blossom and sesame.

6. Qiaosu

There are also many folk pastry shops, which like to make some crisp candy with the image of Weaver Girl, commonly known as "homo habilis" and "Qiaosu", which is also called "sending it to homo habilis" when sold. This custom has been spread in some areas so far.

7. mung bean sprouts

In Guangzhou, before the festival comes, girls prepare colorful paper, medulla tetrapanacis, string and so on in advance, and weave them into all kinds of ingenious gadgets. They also put rice seeds and mung beans in small boxes and soak them in water to germinate them. When the buds grow to more than two inches long, they are used to worship the gods, which are called "worshipping the immortals" and "worshipping the gods".

8. Chicken

In order to express people's wish that the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl can live a happy and happy family life every day, in Jinhua, Zhejiang, every family will kill a chicken on July 7, which means that the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl will meet on this night, and if there is no cock to announce the dawn, they will never be separated.

9. jiaozi

The custom of begging for cleverness in Juancheng, Caoxian, Pingyuan and other places is very interesting: seven good girls collect food and set vegetables to wrap jiaozi, and put a copper coin, a needle and a jujube into three dumplings respectively. After 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.

11, melons and fruits

In this special festival of Qixi, melons and fruits are of course essential! There are also many changes in the melons and fruits eaten on Tanabata. Some people like to carve melons and fruits into exotic flowers and birds, or draw "flower melons" with embossed patterns on the surface of melon skins.

Three legends about why people eat proper fruit on Tanabata

1. Legend has it that a long time ago, there was a girl named Xiao Wei. She was very sympathetic to the sad love between the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, so on Tanabata night every year, Xiao Wei would make a delicate snack and burn incense to offer sacrifices, hoping that the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl could meet in the sky. The local landowner was moved by his small sincerity and reported the matter to heaven. The Jade Emperor couldn't forgive the Cowherd and the Weaver Maid because of heaven's rules, but he was very grateful to the small mind, so he made the old man pull strings and promoted a small and happy marriage. Since then, Xiao Xiao and Mr. Right have been together for a lifetime, and the husband and wife have never left, and they are harmonious and beautiful, which is envied by everyone. Many girls also learn from Xiao Xiao, and make snacks with different characters every year on Tanabata to pray for a happy marriage and a happy life. This kind of snack is also called "proper fruit" and has been passed down to this day.

2. Cooking cakes on Tanabata is like fingers and tongues, and it is called "clever eating". Women and children throw colorful threads into the back of the house, which means that magpies are allowed to take the title to bridge the bridge, and the cowherd and the weaver girl meet each other at night.

3. proper fruit is the tears shed by the seven fairies. If you put it on the babies, the girls will be clever and more beautiful.