What do Chinese people usually eat on Tanabata?

1, Qiaoguo

Zhejiang in this day in the flour with a variety of small objects, fried in oil called "Qiaoguo", in the evening in the courtyard display Qiaoguo, lotus seed, white lotus root, red rhombus and so on. The food for the Tanabata festival is most famous for its coquettish fruits.

Qiaojiao, also known as "begging for coincidence fruit", has many styles. The main ingredients are oil, flour, sugar and honey. In Tokyo Monhualu, it is called "Laughing Aversion" and "Fruit and Food Patterns", and the patterns include "Pressing Fragrance" and "Fang Sheng".

2, Qiaoba noodles

In addition to eating Qiaoguo, some places, the seventh day of the seventh month to eat Qiaoba noodles. Do Qiaobao noodles with bean sprouts, to seven days in advance of the birth of a small bowl of mung beans without insects, washed, flat to a plate, with a wet gauze cover to block the sun, put on the kang, sprayed a few times a day so that the water to keep it moist.

Seven days later, when the bean sprouts grow to two or three centimeters long, you can do hand-rolled noodles, cooked in a pot, over cool water to pull through; and then the hot pot of oil, add diced meat fried, onions, ginger, soy sauce, vinegar chili sauce, put the mung bean sprouts fried, add water to boil, and then add salt, monosodium glutamate, made of bean sprouts soup; catch the noodle in a bowl, poured on the bean sprouts soup can be eaten.

3, coquettish pastry

Coquettish pastry is one of the traditional famous dishes, the earliest production of coquettish pastry is to celebrate the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden on the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar magpie bridge will meet, but also for their own prayers for happiness.

A lot of pastry stores in the ancient folklore would make candies in the image of the "Weaving Maiden" and "Cowherd" on the eve of the seventh lunar month and call them "Qiao Ren" or "Qiao Crisp". Qiaoren" or "Qiao Cake" and sell them as "Delivery of Qiao". Nowadays, many places still keep this traditional custom of baking shortcrust pastry with bean paste filling, five-kernel filling, egg yolk filling, fruit filling, sausage filling and other fillings.

4, Jiangmizhi

Old Nanjing people have a unique custom for Tanabata: eating Jiangmizhi. Jiangmi is a Han snack, with glutinous rice flour and bean flour and noodles in the crock pot after steaming out, put in a stone mortar with a stick whacking, and then culminate into a round, sun-drying fried in oil, and finally dipped in plum blossoms, pine flowers, sesame and other soybean paste made of a food.

5, hemp old

People in western Fujian region like to eat a kind of Eve called hemp old things. People in Longyan regard Ma Lao as a kind of begging thing on the eve of the seventh day of the seventh month, which symbolizes faithful love and perfect marriage, and also symbolizes the "prosperity of both wealth and prosperity". In Longyan, parents must buy malao to present to their daughters a few days before the seventh day of the seventh month every year. Especially after the first year of marriage, to use small baskets to send a whole quart of pick, relatives and friends in the eve of the big send hemp old.

Ma Lao main ingredient is glutinous rice, after the master craftsman made of "rice incense" to sugar, maltose boiled, poured with lard, seasoned with "rice incense", with green onions, peanuts, etc., quickly pressed and sliced can be.