Each festival has its traditional customs and traditional food, and the meaning of which is also different. Yuanxiao eating Tangyuan represents the reunion. What traditional food does Qixi eat? What symbolic meaning does it have?
What traditional food do you eat on Chinese Valentine's Day
1. Cunning fruit
Qixi Festival food is most famous for its Qiao fruit. Qiaoguo, also known as "Qiaoguo", has many styles. The main material is oil molasses. In the Tokyo dreamland, it's called "laughing and hating children" and "fruit eating pattern". The patterns include Naxiang, Fangsheng, etc. In the Song Dynasty, Qixi fruit was sold on the streets.
If you buy a jin of Qiao fruit, there will be a pair of people wearing battle armour, such as the door god's puppet, known as the 'fruit eating general'. The method of Qiao Guo is: first put the white sugar in the pot and melt it into syrup, then mix it with flour and sesame, mix it well and spread it thin on the case, cool it and cut it into rectangular pieces with a knife, turn it into shuttle shaped Qiao embryo, fry it until golden.
Today, in Hangzhou, Ningbo, Wenzhou and other places in Zhejiang Province, people will make all kinds of small things with flour on the day of Qixi, and fry them in an oil pan and call them "Qiaoguo". Qixi Festival has the custom of eating skillfully. There are fruits and all kinds of pasta, and customs vary from place to place. After all kinds of skillful food are made, they should be displayed on several cases in the courtyard, as if to invite the weaver girls in the sky to comment. Then we watch the distant night sky and eat all kinds of ingenious food. We think it will make people smart.
2. Flower melon
The skillful woman will also create various patterns related to the legend of the Chinese Valentine's day. In addition, the fruits used in begging can also be varied. Or the melon and fruit are carved into strange flowers and birds, or the patterns are embossed on the surface of the melon skin, which is called 'flower melon'.
3. Soup cake
Qiaoguo and huagua are the most common Tanabata food. In history, different dynasties have different food customs. In the Wei Dynasty, soup cakes were popular on July 7. The festival food of the Tang Dynasty includes the pancakes on July 7, and the book drying Festival is set for July 7. Under three provinces and six departments, each of them will give some money for banquet, which is called "Book drying fair". Chinese Valentine's Day is also suitable for dispensing. It's said that a secret recipe with pines and cypresses as medicinal materials. This magic pill is compounded with dew on July 7. Taking one pill can prolong the life of ten years, and taking two pills can prolong the life of twenty years.
In addition, there are baisongshi, take cypress, fold lotus leaf and so on, are known as immortal elixir. The more practical prescriptions include sunning locust juice to treat hemorrhoids, frying bitter melon to treat eyes, picking melon roots to treat diarrhea and so on. Only those who have tried know how effective it is.
4. Wuzi
It is a great event for girls and young women to worship weaving girls on the Chinese Valentine's day. The offerings include tea, wine, fresh fruit, etc., and the five seeds (longan, red dates, hazelnuts, peanuts, melon seeds) are indispensable. After the incense worship and silent prayer, these offerings also become their night food. The medicinal value of Wuzi is very high. Longan has the functions of appetizing the stomach and Qi, nourishing the blood and spleen, nourishing the heart and mind, and nourishing the deficiency and wisdom; jujube has sweet taste and warm nature, which can nourish the Qi and blood and promote the body fluid; hazelnut has the reputation of "king of nuts", which is said in "Kaibao Materia Medica" to be "mainly beneficial to the strength, stomach, hunger and walking"; peanut nourishes and nourishes the body and helps to prolong life, so it is also called "longevity fruit" by the people; According to the compendium of Materia Medica and the dictionaries of traditional Chinese medicine, melon seeds have the functions of clearing lung and resolving phlegm, moistening intestines and relieving constipation.
5. Noodles
In addition, there is a custom of eating noodles on this day, which is often in addition to the 24 solar terms in China. One solar term is three volts, another is summer nine, and there is a thunderstorm in the south. We all know toufu dumplings and Erfu noodles. And eating noodles means choosing longevity. The higher the noodles are, the longer people will live. There is also a tribute for the weaver girl.
Noodles can be made. Noodles are the best. They symbolize dexterity. They also symbolize that you will be able to bend and stretch your character in the future, especially for boys or husbands. They are also resilient, which means that you need to be resilient when you go out to be a man, so your career will be successful. The husband's husband was originally called "husband" from the beginning of heaven. The husband was the heaven, the wife was the earth, and the sky was the husband, so we could make a career. In addition, I wish my mother-in-law and father-in-law a long and healthy life.
In the past, it was dangerous to make dumplings and put money or needles in some places. To put a needle is to beg for skill. So eat dumplings from the upper lace bite, eat more carefully, to the back of the needle is often at the bottom of the face. In the future, we will not advocate it. After all, it is still dangerous.
6. Water chestnut
In Siyi, Guangdong Province, on the night of July 7, every family set up several tables in the courtyard and placed offerings. Because Ling and Ling share the same voice, Lingjiao is indispensable in the offerings. Girls peel water chestnut to admire gods; children chew water chestnut to drink plant vitality; old people drink water chestnut to drink tea to eat water chestnut & hellip; hellip;
A happy family makes a red feast. 'that's probably the scene.
Although the water chestnut's appearance does not have the air of dancing to make the clear shadow curl up, it has many ways, which is better than eating fresh and refreshing, between the teeth and cheeks, it is surrounded by fragrance, such as in the night when the wind blows over the water and stirs the heartstrings. So, the Qixi food in Siyi area is very poetic.
7. Honey
"Taiping Yulan" Volume 31 quoted "riweishu": "Altair, Jingzhou call for river drum, main Guan Liang; Vega main fruit. At the same time, honey symbolizes the sweet life of husband and wife in China, and the hexagonal honeycomb built by bees belongs to the ingenious design.
In addition, pine needle can be used to symbolize embroidery needle and boil pine needle Soup for drinking; pine needle can be used as medicine, which has the effect of preventing cerebrospinal fluid, treating thrombocytopenic purpura, night blindness, neurasthenia, malnutrition and edema. Or embroider threads with colorful faces, symbolize feelings with lotus root (lotus root and even homophony), symbolize unity with pomegranate, symbolize the integration of Yandi and Huangdi with red sorghum and yellow millet two-color rice, etc. In view of this, it is suggested that Chinese merchants develop the special food of Chinese Valentine's day and open up new business opportunities. At the same time, it is also suggested that China's diplomatic, cultural and news media departments export Tanabata culture to the world, so that China's traditional culture can go to the world.
8. Leprosy
On the Chinese Valentine's day, there are water caltrops with fairy air and Ma Lao with smoke and fire flavor. People in Western Fujian like to eat something called ma Lao on Chinese Valentine's day. The main material is glutinous rice, which is made into "rice flavor" by the teacher's skillful hands. It is boiled with white sugar and maltose, poured with lard, mixed with "rice flavor", matched with scallion, peanut, etc., and quickly pressed into slices. Crispy glutinous rice and crystal sugar coated, wrapped with peanuts and sesame seeds, you can hear the crispy glutinous rice rattling in your mouth, they are telling you in the most simple way, what is crispy and delicious, what is not stopping at all.
9. Eat chicken
It is said that the Cowherd and the weaver girl can meet each other only on the seventh day of the seventh day of each year, and when the cock announces the dawn, they have to be separated. In ancient times, because of sympathy for Cowherd and weaver girl, people had the custom of slaughtering chicken on the Chinese Valentine's day to pray that lovers would never be separated. Therefore, on the Chinese Valentine's day, eating chicken has become a traditional custom in many places.