What are the traditional cuisines on Tanabata?

Evening Festival, also known as Begging for Cleverness Festival, is a romantic festival with traditional culture. For the sake of romance and ritual in life, we often eat proper food on holidays. What shall we eat on Tanabata?

1, proper fruit

The elders all say: July 7th, eat appropriate fruit, have exquisite heart and wisdom fruit.

Appropriate fruit should be the most suitable food for Tanabata. After all, it is also called Qixi Fruit, and it is also called Qiaoqi Fruit. Its appearance looks beautiful, too, and it is a pattern related to Qixi. This is a kind of pastry made of flour, which is called "Qiao Qi". This is an old woman. She prayed to the Weaver Girl to give her a pair of skillful hands. By eating proper fruit on Tanabata, Jojo can realize his wish.

2, clever bud noodles

In some places, there will be the custom of eating smart bud noodles on Tanabata. This "bud" is actually a bean sprout. Bean sprout soup made of bean sprouts is used as the topping of noodles, and handmade noodles are selected for noodles with clever buds. It is said that noodles are eaten on Tanabata, because the noodles are soft and slender, which means that the whole family is soul mates. If you meet a magpie on this day, you can also give it two bowls of noodles to thank it for taking a magpie bridge to meet the cowherd and the weaver girl.

3. Su Qiao

It is said that there were many Su Qiao in ancient times, which were generally sold by the people. Folk pastry shops will make crisp candy similar to the image of women on Tanabata, and call it "capable people". Most women like to buy them to celebrate the meeting of cowherd and weaver girl. Some women also pray for their happiness. Eating smart cakes on Tanabata must be very happy in the future.

4. Eat jiaozi (Qiaoqiao Rice) on Tanabata.

As the saying goes, "Don't ask what to eat during the holidays, just ask to eat jiaozi!"

Eating jiaozi is a tricky custom in Juancheng, Cao Xian and Pingyuan, but it is very interesting: seven good girls collect food and vegetables, pack jiaozi, and put a copper coin, a needle and a red date in three jiaozi. After the courtship, they got together to eat jiaozi. It is said that they were rich, good at sewing and got married early.

5, eat hemp old

Ma Lao, the correct name should be Mano, a China Valentine's Day food in memory of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl. In Longyan area, parents will buy horses for their daughters a few days before the seventh day of July every year, especially in the first year of marriage, and they will put them in a small basket and give them a whole basket of blessings.

6. flower melon

Tanabata is an ancient custom. Melons are carved into various patterns, such as exotic flowers and birds or embossed patterns. Other handy women will knead the dough into various cakes related to the legend of Qixi. Eating this kind of flower melon on Tanabata may pollute the intelligence of others and make you smarter, which is also one of the meanings of eating flower melon on Tanabata.

Finally, let's talk about how we Fujian people spend Tanabata!

In Fujian, Tanabata not only eats proper fruit, but also eats broad beans, because the homonym of broad beans is "wrapping beans" and "dividing beans into a family" is a unique custom in our side.

On Valentine's Day in China, 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. Men and women in love will also eat a handful of broad beans, indicating that beautiful things are closely intertwined and will never be separated.

When I was a child, every time around Tanabata, my family would make a pot of spiced broad beans and then give them to my acquaintances and neighbors, saying, "Get attached, get attached." I hope that the neighbors will have happy feelings, good relations and always be harmonious and friendly. Now I live in a high-rise building, and my neighbors are not familiar with each other. I miss the laughter at that time, and I miss the good affection between the villagers and neighbors at that time.