Every time we hear the beautiful love story of the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden it brings tears to our eyes to see each other only three days later, which is commonly known as Chinese Valentine's Day. The love story of the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden combines many traditional customs to form when Chinese Valentine's Day food customs. Among them is the custom of eating delicately, not only various fruits, but also various pastries. Because every place has different customs, the eating skillful will be different. Some places will have wontons, dumplings, noodles as the food eaten on Valentine's Day, and some places will have cloudy noodles on the day so as to have a good idea.

The most famous traditional food on the eve of Valentine's Day is the "proper fruit", also known as "choki fruit". This noodle dish is prepared differently in different regions and has evolved into a variety of colorful pastries. In Shaoxing, Zhejiang, the proper fruit is somewhat similar to the fork in the north. In Ningbo, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, a variety of small items made from flour are deep-fried.

In some areas of the south, people on the eve of the eve of Tanabata, specializing in soaking bean sprouts, also known as "soaking buckwheat", the growth of bean sprouts called buckwheat sprouts. On the eve of Tanabata, the girl replaced the needle with a well-behaved bud and threw it on the water to beg for cleverness. In some areas, sprouted bean sprouts are also used to make clever bean sprout noodles to celebrate Tanabata.

In some areas of Shandong Province, a big meal on Tanabata is dumplings. The specific custom is for seven good girls to knead, stuff and wrap the dumplings together. When the dumplings are wrapped, a copper coin, a needle and a red date are wrapped in three dumplings and then gathered together to eat the dumplings. It is said that those who eat copper coins are blessed, those who eat needles have skills, and those who eat dates get married early. Old Nanjing people ate glutinous rice strips on Tanabata, fried with glutinous rice flour and bean flour, dipped in plum blossoms, pine flowers, sesame seeds and bean paste. Now Tanabata is not exclusively with glutinous rice strips, you can also eat at other times.

The killing and eating of chickens on Tanabata is popular in Jinhua, Zhejiang Province. It is said that without songs and dances to announce the dawn, the cowherd and the weaving maiden would never be separated, which sustains people's good wishes for the story of the cowherd and the weaving maiden.July 7 is also known as the Daughter's Day, as many couples walk into the wedding hall on this day with the blessings of their families. For girls who get married on this day, their families give their married daughters "smart food" before the wedding. It is hoped that the daughter will be as original as the weaver. Smart food is actually tongue-shaped sugar cakes made of rice flour and red beans. It is said that Chinese couples who eat a bite of sugar cookies on Valentine's Day will be inseparable and sweet every day.