4hw.com.cn: Laba Festival is coming in 2019. As the saying goes, Laba is a year, and it is getting closer and closer to the pace of the new year. Chinese traditional festivals are always closely related to food. What do you eat on Laba Festival in the South and what are the legends about Laba Festival? Let's have a look.
What do you eat on Laba Festival in the south
Southern winter eight treasures white gourd soup is also a common soup in Guangdong folk festivals. It is delicious, moist and delicious, invigorating the spleen, supplementing qi and promoting fluid, and suitable for men, women, old and young. As the saying goes, 'La Qi La Ba, freeze your chin', so on La Ba day, every family drinks La Ba porridge in order to prevent your chin from being frozen. People also call Laba porridge 'fangfengzhou'. It is said that drinking this porridge can keep out the cold.
In some places in the north where rice is not produced or less produced, people don't eat Laba porridge, but Laba noodles. The next day, make all kinds of fruits and vegetables into saozi, roll the noodles, and the whole family will eat Laba noodles on the morning of the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month.
Legend of Laba Festival
There are also many legends about Laba Festival and eating Laba porridge. It is said that Laba porridge originated in India. Sakyamuni, the founder of Buddhism, was originally the son of King Jingfan of the state of kapilawi in the north of ancient India. Seeing that all living beings suffered and were dissatisfied with the theocratic rule at that time, he abandoned his throne and became a monk. Finally, he survived six years of asceticism and became a Buddha under the bodhi tree on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. During these six years of asceticism, he ate only one hemp and one meter a day. Later, people never forget him and suffered from suffering. Therefore, they eat porridge on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month every year as a souvenir.
It is also said that Laba Festival comes from the custom of "red beans beating ghosts". It is said that Zhuanxu, one of the five emperors in ancient times, had three sons. After their death, they all became evil spirits and specially ran out to scare the children. These evil spirits were only afraid of red beans, so they had the saying of "red beans beating ghosts". Therefore, on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, red beans are used to cook porridge to ward off evil spirits and welcome the auspicious.