The customs of begging for cleverness in Juancheng, Caoxian, Pingyuan and other places are very interesting: seven good girls collect food and vegetables, jiaozi, and wrap 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 they are blessed with money, skillful with needles and early married with dates.

2. proper fruit

On this day, all parts of Zhejiang make all kinds of small objects with flour, which are called "proper fruit" after frying in oil. At night, proper fruit, lotus, white lotus root and Hong Ling are displayed in the courtyard. 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.

3, 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, 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. Cloud surface

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

5. Rice noodles

Old Nanjing people also have a unique custom of celebrating Tanabata: eating glutinous rice. 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 sesame seeds and bean paste.

6. Qiaosu

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

7. 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.

8. Chicken

In order to express people's hope that the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl can live a 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 this night, and if there is no cock to announce the dawn, they will never be separated.

9. 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.

10, mung bean sprouts

In Guangzhou, before the festival comes, girls make good use of colored paper, medulla tetrapanacis, string, etc. in advance to make up all kinds of fancy gadgets. They also put rice seeds and mung beans in small boxes and soak them in water to make them germinate. 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".