Now people love Valentine's Day, we often have February 14 is the Western Valentine's Day, then the Valentine's Day exclusive to our East is a few days later is the first seven days of July, tanabata festival. Tanabata Festival, also known as the Beggar Festival, is a romantic festival that contains traditional culture. For the sake of the romance and ritual of life, we often eat the right food at the festival, so what do we eat on Tanabata?
【Eat qiaoguo】
Qiao guo should be the most suitable delicacy of Tanabata, after all, its alias is Tanabata fruit, also known as Beggar Qiao Fruit. Its appearance is also very good-looking, and it is a trick related to Tanabata. It is a pastry made of flour and named "beggar", which is an ancient woman who prayed to the weaver girl to give her a pair of skillful hands. By eating Qiao Guo at the Tanabata Festival, Qiao Qiao will be able to fulfill his wish.
【Eat rice noodles】
The name of Jiang Mi Tiao may be relatively unfamiliar to everyone, but everyone will definitely understand it when you look at the picture. Isn't this the little snack we ate when we were kids? In the past, Nanjing had the habit of eating rice noodles on Tanabata, which was generally made at home. Made with glutinous rice noodles and bean flour and maltose water, rolled into long round strips and fried in a frying pan. Finally, it is wrapped in white sugar, which is crispy and crispy to eat, and the aftertaste is sweet and nourishing.
【Eat Qiao Bud Noodles】
In some places, there is a custom of eating Tanabata noodles. This "sprout" is actually a bean sprout, using the bean sprout soup made of bean sprouts as the topping of the noodles, and the noodles of the sprout noodles choose to hand roll the noodles. It is said that on the day of Tanabata, noodles are eaten, because the noodles are soft and long, which means that the family is connected to the heart. If you meet a magpie on this day, you can give it two noodles to thank it for building a magpie bridge for the cowherd weaver girl to meet.
【Eating Qiao Crisp】
It is said that there were many kinds of crisps in ancient times, and they were generally sold by the people. Folk pastry shops will make candy with a similar image to women on Tanabata day, and make it a "clever person". Generally, women will like to buy it to celebrate the meeting of the cowherd weaver girl's Queqiao. Some women also pray for their happiness. Tanabata eats crisp, and the future must be very happy.
【Eat fava beans】
The Fuzhou Qixi Festival has the custom of "dividing beans and getting married". On this day, neighbors and friends give each other fava beans, eat fava beans and chat in the moonlight to commemorate each other's fate. After eating the broad beans, there will be no quarrels, and the previous grievances will disappear. This is also a good wish for the festival, hoping that life and harmony are beautiful, without quarrels, reflecting the tradition of Chinese to value peace.
【Eat fried bean tea】
Xiamen Tong'an area will make traditional and delicious fried bean tea every Tanabata, which has a good taste and is very popular with people who love tea. In other words, drinking a cup of fried bean tea on the night of Tanabata is also very traditional and appropriate, and it is also very romantic and elegant. And this also has a beautiful meaning, Tanabata this day drank fried bean tea, life is more sweet and beautiful.
【Eat pomegranate】
In Dongshan Island, Fujian Province, almost every family eats pomegranates during the Qixi Festival. The dinner party on this day will be very sumptuous, with a lot of food to express the hope for a better life. After the party, the adults will ask the juniors to take the pomegranate and place it between the door leaf and the threshold, and the whole family will share the food. And the meaning of pomegranate is also very good, indicating that there are many children and many grandchildren, and more blessings and longevity.
【Eat water chestnut】
Eating water chestnut in early July is a traditional custom of Mount Tai in Jiangmen. On the sixth night of the seventh month of the lunar calendar (early morning of the seventh month of the first month), local households worship the gods and are called "wooden immortals". Water chestnuts, jellies and fruits are indispensable offerings. And the taste is also very good, it is crisp and raw to eat.
【Eat ma lao】
Ma Lao, the correct name should be Ma Glutinous, is a kind of pastry unique to Fujian Longyan. Tanabata food was born in honor of the cowherd weaver girl. In the Longyan area, parents buy Ma Lao to send their daughters a few days before the seventh day of the first month of July every year, especially in the first year after marriage, and they also pack in a small basket and send a whole basket of blessings to their daughters.
What are your Tanabata customs? Don't forget to prepare a meal for your beloved him or her!