The galaxy rotates, and Tanabata is coming. Tanabata is also known as "Beggar Festival", is the most romantic festival in China's traditional festivals, it is said that the day of Tanabata is the day when the cowherd and the weaver girl meet in the sky, the ancient legend if the weather is clear, the stars shine at night, look up you can see the cowherd and the weaver girl across the Milky Way on the Queqiao meeting, and even under the grapevine can secretly hear the sweet love words of this pair of "time and space lovers".
"Tanabata" was first derived from the ancients' worship of natural stars, the ancestors imagined many stars in the sky as gods, according to the characteristics of the stars and their daily lives, including the cowherd star and the Vega star, because the two stars are located in a very special direction, only the day of tanabata can be encountered in a year, so the ancients anthropomorphized the cowherd star and the Vega star, and there is a description of "the weaver girl Tanabata when crossing the river, making the bird a bridge", and people think that the weaver girl is a clever and beautiful, clever, weaving clouds fairy It is also the protector of girls, women and children, so all girls and women will pray for wisdom and flattery in the Tanabata Festival, and many young girls pray that the weaver girl can give her a happy marriage, so the seventh day of the seventh month of the seventh month of the lunar calendar is also known as the "Beggar's Festival".
In ancient times, the Day of the Tanabata Festival has a special significance for girls and women, in this lively and romantic night, against the bright moon in the starry sky, the girls hold prayers for weavers, needle begging, spiders, sitting and watching the morning glory Vega and other activities, the festival atmosphere is very strong, in addition to some folk activities, the Tanabata Festival has a lot of traditional romantic flavor of food, of which this "7 Qiao" is the most representative, meaning that love is beautiful, the sky is long.
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Qiao Guo can be said to be the most suitable delicacy of the Tanabata Festival, named Qiao Guo but not a fruit, but a pasta made by processing flour, oil, sugar, etc., in many forms and styles. In ancient times, women wanted to be skillful, so on the day of Tanabata, they used the way of eating qiaoguo to "beg", praying that they could have a pair of skillful hands, and "qiao" was homophonous with the bridge, and the people thought that eating qiaoguo not only helped the cowherd weaver girl to meet in queqiao, but also made their wishes come true.
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In many places in the north, the old traditional Tanabata day to eat qiao rice, this is a rich and interesting custom, that is, seven girls with good relations together to wrap dumplings, respectively, a copper coin, a needle and a red date wrapped into three dumplings, until the end of the beggar festival activities, they will get together to eat dumplings, it is said that the girl who eats the copper money is blessed, the girl who eats the needle is skillful, and the girl who eats the red date can meet a good marriage, which is people's yearning for a better life.
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This "sprout" in qiao sprout noodles is a common bean sprout in life, and girls in some places will soak grains such as soybeans and mung beans in water in advance to wait for germination. On the day of the Tanabata Festival, you will make toppings with your own bean sprouts and make a bowl of fragrant noodles with hand-rolled noodles. The thin and long noodles mean that the tanabata festival eats noodles and the family is heart-to-heart, if tanabata encounters a magpie on that day, you can also feed it a few noodles and thank it for building a magpie bridge for the cowherd weaver girl.
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Qiaoguo includes peanuts, guiyuan, hazelnuts, melon seeds, red dates five kinds of auspicious ingredients, on the day of the Tanabata Festival, girls and women will carry fresh fruits and "five kinds of Qiaoguo" to worship the weaver girl, pray for beauty, meet love or pray for the birth of a big fat boy, family longevity, etc., waiting for the end of the worship, these tribute fruits become seasonal delicacies.
5. Crispy
During the Tanabata Festival, many pastry shops in ancient folklore will make shortbread with the image of "weaver girl" and "cowherd", and call it "Qiaoren" or "Qiao", which is called "Sending Qiao" when sold. On the day of the festival, many people will buy some to celebrate the Queqiao meeting of the cowherd weaver girl, and the folk also believe that Tanabata will eat qiao crisp, the hands will become more and more skillful, more and more capable, love marriage will be happy and happy, so it is a very popular holiday food in ancient times, and there are still many places to retain this traditional custom.
6. Qiao melon
On the day of the Tanabata Festival, people choose seasonal fruits, use carving knives to carve melons into flowers, birds and other symbols of auspicious patterns, people call this melon and fruit "Qiao melon", which has a high ornamental value, not only adds a fun to the festival, but also contains people's good wishes for their own spiritual ingenuity.
7. Qiao Bean
Fava bean harmonic pronunciation "tangled beans", "bean knot" is a unique custom of the Qixi Festival in the coastal areas of Fujian. On the day of Tanabata, neighbors, relatives and friends will eat fava beans with each other, and men and women who are in love will also eat a handful of broad beans together, which means that good things are tightly entangled and never separated.
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Tanabata Festival has a far-reaching impact, although it is a traditional festival in China, but Japan, the Korean Peninsula, Vietnam and other countries are also deeply affected, in Japan Tanabata Festival is called "Tanabata Festival", the middle of the Nara period of Japan's high society and the Japanese court began to imitate the customs and habits of Tanabata in the Tang Dynasty era of Our country, held activities such as needle begging and Tanabata poetry, Japan abolished the lunar calendar after the Meiji Restoration, tanabata festival changed to the seventh day of the seventh month of the solar calendar, but its customs and habits have not changed and have continued to this day, after all, such a beautiful festival, No one wants to let it go away.
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