What food should I eat on Tanabata?

China Valentine's Day, also known as Qiaojie Begging Festival, Qiqiaojie Festival or Seven Sisters's Birthday, originated in China and is a traditional festival in China and East Asian countries. This festival comes from the legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl and is celebrated on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month. The dietary customs of Valentine's Day in China vary from place to place. You can eat proper fruits, Qiao Ya noodles, melon, Woods and broad beans. Of course, you can also eat chocolate candy on the romantic Tanabata and share the Tanabata events around me with you.

1, proper fruit

Proper fruit is the most famous holiday food in Chinese Valentine's Day. Proper fruit, also called "Kiki Fruit", has many styles. The main materials are oil, flour, sugar and honey. "Dream of China in Tokyo" refers to it as "laughing boy" and "eating fruit patterns", and the patterns include holding incense and winning prizes. During the Song Dynasty, the unique fruits of Qixi were already sold on the streets of the city. If you buy a catty of proper fruit, there will be a pair of dolls in armor, such as door gods, which are called "General Fruit food". Now in Hangzhou, Ningbo, Wenzhou and other places in Zhejiang, people will make all kinds of small objects out of flour and put them in a frying pan, which is called "proper fruit". Evening, appropriate fruits, lotus, white lotus, Hong Ling, etc. Will be placed in a clean yard, and relatives and friends at home will sit together.

2, clever bud noodles

The staple food of Qiao Ya Mian is bean sprouts and noodles. This bean sprout is very particular. It needs to be ready before Qixi seven days in advance. Choose a small bowl of mung beans without moths, wash them and lay them flat on the utensils, cover them with wet gauze to keep out the sun, and spray water every day to keep them moist. Seven days later, when the bean sprouts grow to two or three centimeters, they can be fried to make soup and poured on noodles to eat.

3. flower melon

Handy women will also create various patterns related to the legend of Qixi. In addition, the melons and fruits that can be used skillfully can also be varied. Or carve melons and fruits into exotic flowers and birds, or emboss patterns on the surface of melon skin, which is called "flower melon".

4. Wuzi

Wuzi (longan, red dates, hazelnuts, peanuts, melon seeds) is a Valentine's Day sacrifice in China. After burning incense and praying silently, these offerings became snacks for women. Wuzi has high nutritional value, which is extremely beneficial to people's health.

5. Broad beans

On Qixi, Fuzhou, there is a custom of "separating beans and becoming attached". On this day, neighbors and friends presented broad beans to each other and chatted in the moonlight as a souvenir. After eating broad beans, there will be no quarrel, and the previous grievances will disappear.

Speaking of Tanabata, you should eat chocolate, especially for the people you love. I'll tell you an embarrassing thing that I still remember. In high school, it happened to be a weekend of Qixi. I went back to my cousin's home from the county seat and found all kinds of chocolate candy on his coffee table. I asked you curiously that you still eat chocolate candy at your age, and they replied that it was for me. I wonder how they knew I was going to his house. I started eating chocolate candy, and when I opened it, I found that the box said, "Daughter-in-law, I love you, Happy Chinese Valentine's Day". I couldn't help reading it out, which made them laugh, only to know that my cousin was quite romantic, and I was a little embarrassed at once. Did you have such an experience on Tanabata? Communicate together!