Traditional food and activities during the Chinese Valentine’s Day

Nowadays, the Chinese Valentine's Day has become a festival symbolizing love, expressing people's yearning for a better life and love.

In 2006, the Chinese Valentine's Day was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage lists by the State Council.

Below are the traditional food and activities of the Chinese Valentine's Day that I have compiled for you. I hope it will be helpful to you.

The traditional food of Qixi Festival 1. Dumplings The custom of begging for clever things in Juancheng, Caoxian, Pingyuan and other places is very interesting: seven good girls gather food and vegetables to make dumplings, and wrap a copper coin, a needle and a red date into three bags respectively.

In the dumplings, after the activity of begging for skills, they gathered together to eat dumplings. It is said that those who eat money will be blessed, those who eat needles will be skillful, and those who eat dates will marry early.

2. Qiaoguo. On this day, all parts of Zhejiang use flour to make various small shapes. They are called "Qiaoguo" after frying in oil. Qiaoguo, lotus root, white lotus root, red water chestnut, etc. are displayed in the courtyard at night.

Qiao Guo is the most famous food for Qixi Festival.

Qiaoguo, also known as "Qiaoguo", comes in many styles.

The main materials are oil, flour, sugar and honey.

"Tokyo Menghualu" calls it "laughing tired children" and "fruit-eating patterns", and the patterns include Na Xiang, Fang Sheng, etc.

3. Qiaoya noodles. In addition to eating Qiaoguo, in some places, Qiaoya noodles are eaten on the seventh day of July.

The bean sprouts used to make Qiaoya noodles must be grown seven days in advance. Choose a small bowl of mung beans that are not eaten by insects, wash them, spread them flat on a plate, cover them with wet gauze to block the sun, put them on the kang head, and spray them several times a day.

Water keeps it moist.

Seven days later, when the bean sprouts grow to two or three centimeters long, you can make hand-rolled noodles, cook them in a pot, and drain them under cold water; then heat the pot with oil, add diced pork and stir-fry until cooked, stir-fry onions and ginger, soy sauce and vinegar.

Heat a pot, add mung bean sprouts and stir-fry until cooked, add water to boil, add salt and MSG to make bean sprout soup; put the noodles into a bowl, pour the bean sprout soup over it and eat.

4. Yunmian: Jiaodong people eat Qiaoguozi on Chinese Valentine's Day, while Linyi people eat Yunmian on Chinese Valentine's Day.

Eat cloud noodles. This noodle must be made with dew. Eating it will gain ingenuity.

5. Rice sticks: Old Nanjing people have a unique custom during Chinese Valentine's Day: eating glutinous rice sticks.

Rice sticks are a Han nationality snack. They are made of glutinous rice noodles mixed with soybean flour, steamed in a stew pot, beaten with sticks in a stone mortar, then shaped into round stalks, dried in the sun and fried in oil, and finally dipped in plum blossoms, pine flowers, etc.

A food made from sesame and other bean paste.

6. Qiaosu There are also many folk pastry shops that like to make some candies in the image of the Weaver Girl, commonly known as "Qiaoren" and "Qiaosu". When selling, they are also called "giving Qiaoren". This custom has been passed down to this day in some areas.

7. Fruits and melons are of course essential during the special festival of Chinese Valentine’s Day! There are also many variations of melons and fruits eaten during Chinese Valentine’s Day. Some people like to carve the melons and fruits into exotic flowers and birds, or emboss patterns on the surface of the melon skin, etc.

Painted as "flower melon".

8. Chicken: In order to express people's wish that the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl can live a beautiful 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 each other that night. If there is no rooster to announce the dawn,

Then they can never be separated.

9. Wuzi "Worship the Weaver Girl" on Chinese Valentine's Day is a major event for girls and young women.

The worship offerings include tea, wine, fresh fruits, etc. Five seeds (longan, red dates, hazelnuts, peanuts, melon seeds) are indispensable. After burning incense and praying silently, these offerings become their late-night snack food.

10. Mung bean sprouts In Guangzhou, before the festival, girls prepare various ingenious gadgets using colored paper, grass, strings, etc. They also put grain seeds and mung beans into small boxes and soak them in water.

When the buds grow to more than two inches long, they are used to worship gods, which are called "worshiping gods" and "worshiping vegetables".

What activities are there during the Chinese Valentine's Day? Threading a needle and begging for skills. In fact, this is also the earliest form of begging for skills. Among these activities, even the earliest one originated in the Han Dynasty.

Nowadays, many people still have those who like to do this the fastest.

During the Qixi Festival, at night, even the Xi spider Yingqiao became active, and at this time, some were directly placed in the hall and courtyard to scrape the bones, and then

Use spiders to build webs. It would be even better if there is a lot of honey.

Worship the Kuixing. In fact, the true system itself is mainly one. I worship it directly on this day, and it can even make myself more proud and get better in the exam.

To test a skill by throwing a needle to test a skill, it is actually a direct change of the fax begging for skill, and this is also a Chinese Valentine's Day custom that was popular in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and it is mainly directly

It is a custom made at noon.