What do Chinese people usually eat on Tanabata?

Chinese people usually eat the following things on the Tanabata Festival:

1, dumplings. Eating dumplings is the custom of begging for coincidence in Jancheng, Caoxian, Pingyuan, etc. Seven girls who are close to each other gather food and vegetables to make dumplings, and wrap a copper coin, a needle and a red date into three dumplings respectively, and after begging for coincidence, they gather together to eat dumplings, and legend has it that those who ate the money were blessed, those who ate the needle were skillful, and those who ate the date were married early.

2, coquettish fruit. Zhejiang in this day with flour made of various small objects, fried in oil called "Qiaoguo", the evening in the courtyard display Qiaoguo, lotus seed, white lotus root, red rhombus and so on. Qiaoguo is the most famous food for the Tanabata festival. Qiaoguo is also known as "Begging Fruit" and has many styles. The main ingredients are oil, flour, sugar and honey.

3, Qiao pastry. There are many folk pastry store, like to make some of the image of the weaver's pastry, commonly known as "coquettish" "coquettish pastry", sold and known as "send coquettish", this custom has been passed down in some regions This custom has been passed down in some areas to the present day.

The origin of the Tanabata Festival:

The Tanabata Festival, also known as the Beggar's Day and the Daughter's Day, is a traditional Chinese festival that comes from the legend of the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden and is celebrated on the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar. In ancient times, women would offer sacrifices to the Seven Sisters on their birthday, praying for dexterity and a happy marriage. This is also the origin of the name "Begging for Coquettishness". Women will also be five-color thread to the moon and wind through the needle, into the for the long time.

Over time, Tanabata also became the "Daughter's Day". The Tanabata Festival to the Cowherd and Weaving Maiden folklore as a carrier, the expression of the married man and woman will not leave each other, old age emotions, abiding by the promise of love. 2006 May 20 Tanabata Festival by the People's Republic of China *** and the State Council included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.