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Traditional food on Tanabata, what traditional food do you eat on Begging Day?

Valentine's Day in China is a traditional festival in China, also known as Begging for Clevership Festival. When Valentine's Day comes in China, most areas have their own folk customs, and there are many traditional foods on Valentine's Day in China. However, China has a vast territory and rich natural resources, and different places have different food customs on Tanabata. Let's take a look at what traditional foods are available on Tanabata and what traditional foods are eaten on Kiki Festival.

The most famous festive food on Tanabata is proper fruit. The main ingredients of proper fruit are oil, sugar and honey, and there are many styles, which are basically fried. Because they envy the ingenuity of the Weaver Girl, women also call these foods legitimate fruits, hoping that they can become more dexterous. The traditional holiday food for Valentine's Day in China also includes glutinous rice flour, which is a unique delicacy of the old Nanjing people. Glutinous rice flour and soybean flour are mixed with sake to form dough, then steamed in a pan, beaten evenly, dried, cut into noodles with a knife, and fried in an oil pan. After the fried glutinous rice strips are drained, they can be dipped in syrup to eat. There are also broad beans, which are the traditional delicacies of Fuzhou Tanabata, and Fuzhou also has the custom of getting attached to beans. On this day, friends in the neighborhood presented broad beans to each other and chatted with them in the moonlight to commemorate their attachment. After eating the broad beans, they stopped quarreling, and their previous grievances vanished.

Valentine's Day in China has a long history in China, so folk customs and traditional foods are also varied. No matter what kind of food or custom it is, it represents people's yearning for the love of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl and their admiration for the ingenuity of the Weaver Girl.