Traditional Chinese food for Qixi Festival

On the seventh day of July in the lunar calendar, traditional Qixi Festival, also known as Qi Qiao Festival, which modern people call oriental Valentine's Day, is the most romantic festival in China's traditional festivals. Every festival has its own food, such as glutinous rice balls for the Lantern Festival, dumplings for the Dragon Boat Festival, and moon cakes for the Mid-Autumn Festival. What should be eaten during the traditional food festival in Qixi Festival? How did the ancients celebrate the Qixi Festival?

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Dumplings

In Wucheng, Caoxian and plains, seven good girls on the day of Qixi Festival packed dumplings and wrapped a copper coin, a needle and a red date into three dumplings. After a coincidence, they gathered together to eat. Dumplings, it is said that the blessed to eat money, to eat the needle skillful, eat the early marriage of the date.

Qiao Guo

The fruitful fruit is Qiqiao Qiao, one of the seasonal foods of the Qixi Festival. It is a specialty cake in the Shanghai area. It is made from flour and supplemented with sesame. It has a lot of styles. It is now popular in Zhejiang, Hangzhou, Wenzhou and Wenzhou. It is the seventh day of July in Wenzhou. Her kins and relatives have to send fruits to give gifts to grandparents.

Clever bud surface

In addition to eating fruit, there are some places where Qiao Sui faces are eaten on the 7th of July. To make sprouts for sprouts, we must prepare seven days in advance. Pick a small bowl of mung beans without insects, wash them and spread them onto a plate. Cover them with wet gauze and cover the sunlight. Place them on the steamed buns and spray them several times a day. The secondary water keeps it moist. After seven days, until bean sprouts grow to two or three centimeters in length, they can be hand-made noodles, cooked in a pot, and drenched in cold water; then the oil is cooked in a hot pot, fried in diced meat, onions, ginger, and soy sauce and vinegar. Shabu-shabu, fry green bean sprouts, add water to boil, add salt, monosodium glutamate, make bean sprouts soup; grab noodles into a bowl, pour bean sprouts soup and eat.

Eating noodles

On some occasions in this day of the Tanabata, Qiaoye noodles should be eaten, and bean sprouts soup should be made with good bean sprouts seven days in advance. Then, the cooked hand-stained noodles should be caught in a bowl and poured into bean sprouts soup. Linyi people in Shandong will eat the cloud made with dew on this day, and eating it can be used to get clever. It is said that seven of the Tanabata noodles are eaten, and that their loved ones have heart to heart. When you eat noodles, you will also throw two magpies who are working outside to make a bridge.

Eating flower

The Qixi old customs are clever, carving the melon into various patterns, such as exotic flowers or relief patterns. In addition, some dexterous women will use the dough made to create a variety of pasta spots related to the Tanabata.

Eat glutinous rice strips

The old Nanjing people had to eat glutinous rice on the seventh day of the Seventh. The glutinous rice flour with glutinous rice flour, bean flour, wheat flour, and maltose water will be cut into pieces, and then cut into strips, put into a pan and fry until it's slightly yellow, then pour the sugar into syrup and pour it into the fry. The glutinous rice strips can be eaten after mixing and letting cool.

Eat broad beans

In Qizhou Festival in the Fuzhou area, there is a custom of “spreading beans”. On this day, the neighbors and friends gave each other broad beans and chatted under the moonlight to make a memorial. After eating the beans will not quarrel, before the grievances will also disappear.

Eat fried bean tea

Xiamen Tong'an area will be a traditional food on every Chinese New Year's Day - fried bean tea, meaning love and sweet life.

Eat pomegranate

In Dongshan Island, Fujian, almost every household on the Qixi Festival has purchased Chinese medicine to make gentlemen and fruits “pomegranate.” For dinner on this day, the gentleman cooks crabs, small bonitos, or eggs, lean meats, and pig intestines. After the party, adults will call the juniors take the pomegranate and put the pomegranate between the door and the placket. The whole family eats food.

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