People made and ate ‘Skill Fruit’ (巧果 qiǎo guǒ /chyaoww-gwor/ ‘skill fruit’): fried, thin pastries of different shapes.

Qiaoguo (Fried Thin Pastry)

Qiaoguo, also known as qiqiao guozi (fruit) or qiaobing (cake), is made using three main ingredients; oil, flour and sugar.

The fragrant and sweet pastry dough is then moulded into different shapes and decorated with elegant patterns and decorative figures.

Sometimes the pastries are strung together on a red cord and hung around children’s necks as snack food or simply as decorations.  

In the Zhejiang and Jiangsu areas, people made them with sticky rice flour and sugar in all kinds of shapes and deep-fried them to symbolize a life full of sweetness

 

 

• Dumplings

In some regions, seven friends would gather to make dumplings. They would put a copper coin and a red date into two separate dumplings.

It was said that whoever ate the dumpling with the copper would become very wealthy and whoever are the dumpling with the date would be married soon.

 

• Fruit

Fruit is one of the most commonly used foods during Qixi Festival. In some Qixi Festival traditions, women would carve fruit into the shapes of flowers, animals and birds.

• Honey Pears

Asian pears are used to create this dish. The pears are filled with Chinese dates (known as Jujubes) and honey and lightly steamed.

 

Some Other popular foods are water caltrop,melon seeds, melons, peanuts, and fried rice pastries

 

• Chocolate