What are the snacks for the Chinese Valentine's Day? Introduction to traditional food for the Chinese Valentine's Day in 2021

What are the snacks for the Chinese Valentine's Day? Introduction to traditional food for the Chinese Valentine's Day in 2021
This year's Chinese Valentine's Day is on August 14th. Why not try the traditional Chinese delicacy - Qiaoguo. So, what are the snacks for the Chinese Valentine’s Day? What other traditional foods are there for the Chinese Valentine’s Day in 2021? The editor will reveal it to you now! What are the taboos and precautions in the lunar calendar for July? The special topic on the seventh month of the lunar calendar in 2021 has also provided answers for you. You can click on Shuimo.com to check the seventh month of the lunar calendar in 2021.

What are the snacks for Chinese Valentine’s Day?

A symbol of the Chinese Valentine's Day, similar to the chocolate on February 14th in foreign countries.
The main ingredients of Qiaoguo are oil, flour, sugar and honey. As early as the Song Dynasty, there were already Qixi Qiaoguo for sale. There are many kinds of Qiaoguo with different styles, but the general method is the same:
Add the melted sugar syrup to flour and sesame seeds, mix well and spread it on the table to roll it thin. Cut it into rectangles with a knife, fold out spindle-shaped chocolate embryos, and then fry them in oil until golden brown.
In some places, it is popular to string and dry the glutinous rice cakes. The glutinous rice cakes are strung together and tied to small wooden sticks or straw, and then decorated with colorful tassels. They are then hung on the wall or around children's necks as decorations or snacks.
Some families hang it as a decoration for a year, and then eat the old ones when new ones are made the next year.
Meaning: Pray for yourself or your friend to be clever

Where does the legend about Qiaoguo come from?

1. A long time ago, there was a little girl named Xiaoqiao. She sympathized with the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl. Every year on the Chinese Valentine's Day, she would make an exquisite pastry and named it - Qiaoguo.
Because "qiao" (qiao) and "qiao" (qiao) are homophones, people believe that eating the qiao fruit can make them more clever and can also act like a magpie to help the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl meet in the sky.
This incident moved the Emperor of Heaven, so he blessed the girl and helped her find a happy marriage, so later on the Qixi Festival was also called Valentine's Day.
2. On the Chinese Valentine's Day, cakes shaped like fingers and tongues are made, which are called "Qiaoshi". Women and children string the "Qiaoshi" with colorful threads and throw them over the back of the roof, hoping that magpies will take them to build a bridge so that the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl can meet across the Milky Way at night.
3. Qiaoguo is the tears shed by the seven fairies. If you put it on babies, girls will become more clever and more beautiful.

In addition to Qiaogu, what other traditional delicacies are there for the 2021 Chinese Valentine's Day?

1. Crisp candy:
On the Chinese Valentine's Day, many places make some crispy candies in the shape of the Weaver Girl, commonly known as "Qiao Ren" or "Qiao Su". When they are sold, they are also called "Sending Qiao Ren". People believe that people who eat this kind of "crispy candy" will become dexterous.
2. Qiaoqiao Rice:
In Shandong, people eat Qiaoqiao rice on the Chinese Valentine's Day. The custom of begging for skills is very interesting: seven good girls gather grain and vegetables to make dumplings, and put a copper coin and a red date into two dumplings respectively. After the begging for skills activity, they gather together to eat dumplings. It is said that whoever eats the money will be blessed, and whoever eats the date will get married early.
3. Fruits:
In Fujian, people let the Weaver Girl appreciate and taste fruits during the Chinese Valentine's Day in order to ask her to bless them with a good harvest in the coming year. The offerings include tea, wine, fresh fruits, five seeds (longan, red dates, hazelnuts, peanuts, melon seeds), flowers and pollen used by women for makeup, in order to pray for a good harvest in the coming year.

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