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What kind of traditional food do you eat on the Chinese Valentine's day

Chinese Valentine's Day is not only a traditional festival in China, but also a Valentine's day in China. It's a romantic festival. So what kind of activities or customs do Chinese people have? What kind of food do you eat on Chinese Valentine's day? Let's get to know with Xiaobian!

What traditional food do you eat on Chinese Valentine's Day

The traditional food in each area is different, but it has local characteristics.

1. Eating Qiao fruit

Qixi Festival should be festival food, to Qiao fruit most famous. Qiaoguo is also called "Qiaoguo". In fact, it's not a fruit, but a necessary snack for Qixi Festival. These Qiao fruits probably originated in Song Dynasty. Some people use flour to make pancakes, called Qiao pancakes, which are popular in Shaowu area of Fujian Province. As the saying goes, Qixi can make a man skillful if he has eaten a skillet.

2. Crispy

During the Chinese Valentine's day, the folk pastry shops like to make some crisp sweets for weaving women's images, commonly known as "Qiao Ren" Qiao Su ", which is also known as" sending Qiao Ren "when selling. This custom has been spread in some areas till now.

3. Sourdough cake

Suoqian is the food people used to eat on the Chinese Valentine's day. Later, it evolved into the custom of eating noodles. It can be said that the ancestor of noodles was suobing. Suobing was introduced into Japan in the era of Nara. It looks like our Chinese twist. The Japanese put wheat and rice flour together, twisted them into a long and thin shape like a rope, then fried or baked until they are ripe.

4. Eat chicken

In order to hope that Cowherd and weaver girl can have a happy family life, in Jinhua area of Zhejiang Province, every family will kill a chicken on the Chinese Valentine's day, which means that Cowherd and weaver girl will meet each other this night. If there is no cock to announce the dawn, they will never be separated.

5. Eat dumplings

In many areas, people eat dumplings on the Chinese Valentine's day. When they make dumplings, they wrap a copper coin, a needle and a red date into three dumplings. If you eat copper money, you will be blessed; if you eat needles, you will be smart; if you eat dates, you will be able to get married early and get a happy marriage.

6. Cloud surface

Jiaodong people eat Qixi fruit, Linyi people eat yunmian Qixi. Eat cloud noodles, which have to be made of dew, and you can get clever ideas by eating it.

7. Jiangmi bar

There is also a unique custom for old Nanking people to celebrate the Chinese Valentine's Day: eating rice noodles. Jiangmi bar is a snack of Han nationality. It's steamed in a stew pot with glutinous rice noodles, bean flour and noodles. It's hammered in a stone mortar with a stick. Then it's round. It's dried in the sun and fried in oil. Finally, it's made of bean paste such as plum blossom, pine flower and sesame.

What's the custom of Qixi

1. Worship the Seven Sisters

Qixi worships the God of seven sisters. The young women put on new clothes, gather together, form seven sisters in the court, sing songs, and make 'Qiao Hua' in many places. The young girls use flour to make peony, lotus, plum, orchid, chrysanthemum and other cake and BUN food (or Qiao Guo) with flowers, as well as Qiao Cai, that is, to cultivate malt in the wine cup (that is, the 'seed' in Song Dynasty), and sacrifice Zhinv with Qiao Guo and Qiao CAI.

2. Seven niangs Association

People will start to prepare in June, rice, wheat, green beans and other soaked in porcelain bowls waiting for germination. Near the Chinese Valentine's day, a magpie bridge will be built and various exquisite handicrafts will be made. On the night of the Chinese Valentine's day, people put the eight immortals table in the hall, and put on all kinds of wonderful and colorful flower and fruit products and needlework handicrafts.

3. Worship God

The local people call the weaving girl "seven Niang mother", which is the God to protect the children's safety. It's a custom in Southern Fujian to eat pomegranate, cook eggs, meat and rice with brown sugar and glutinous rice on the Chinese Valentine's day to ward off pestilence.

4. Metagenesis and progeny

On the Chinese Valentine's day, people use wax to create various images, such as the characters in the story of Cowherd and weaver girl, or the shapes of vultures, mandarin ducks and other animals, which float on the water, called "floating on the water". There is a kind of wax baby doll called "metazoan". Women buy it home and float in the water, which is good for their children.

5. Ligation of Sagittaria

In the Loess Plateau area of Shaanxi Province, there are also customs of holding various begging activities on the night of the Chinese Valentine's day. Women often need to tie off the grass people wearing flower clothes, which are called qiaogu. They not only need to provide fruits and melons, but also plant bean sprouts and green onions. On the night of the Chinese Valentine's day, women in every family hold a bowl of clear water, cut bean sprouts and green onions, put them into the water, use the shadow of the moon to divine the life of Qiaozhuo, and wear needles and thread , the level of competition. At the same time, we also held the activity of window cutting.

6. Nail dye

Fingernail dyeing is a popular custom in Southwest China. It is also popular in many counties of Sichuan Province, Guizhou and Guangdong. Many young girls in many areas like to wash their hair with the sap of trees and water during festivals. They can not only be young and beautiful, but also find a good husband for unmarried women as soon as possible. Dyeing nails with flowers and plants is also a hobby of most women and children in festival entertainment, and also closely related to the birth belief.