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What are the traditional customs of Laba Festival

What are the traditional customs of Laba Festival

4hw.com.cn: Laba is a traditional custom in China. Until now, most people drink Laba porridge on this day, and many families also pickle Laba garlic. What are the traditional customs of Laba Festival? Let's have a look.

Laba Festival custom

sacrifice

Ying Shao's "customs pass" said: 'biography of Rites: the wax man hunts animals and animals in the field to sacrifice his ancestors. Or it is said that the waxed one will receive it, and the new one will hand it over, so the great sacrifice will repay the merit. " Its origin is very early. It is recorded in the book of rites & middot; jiaote animal: 'Yiqi began to be wax. Wax also, Suo also, is 12 years old. It gathers all things and asks for gifts. " It is also said in the historical records of the three emperors that 'Emperor Yan Shennong used it as a field affair at the beginning, so it was a wax sacrifice to repay heaven and earth'. In the Xia Dynasty, it was called "Jiaping", in the Yin Dynasty it was called "Qingsi", in the Zhou Dynasty it was called "Da La", and in the Han Dynasty it was changed to "La".

There are eight sacrificial objects: the first stingy God Shennong, the Si stingy God Houji, the God of farming, the God of field officials, the God of postal table border, the person who created the field cottage, opened the road and delimited the boundary, the cat and Tiger God, the square God embankment, the water Yong God, the ditch and the insect God. The wax festival in the pre Qin Dynasty was on the third day after the winter solstice, and gradually fixed on the eighth day of the twelfth month after the northern and Southern Dynasties. In the Tang and Song Dynasties, this festival was covered with the color of God and Buddha.

What does Laba Festival mean

Congee with Nuts and Dried Fruits

Laba has the custom of eating Laba porridge on this day. Laba porridge is also called Qibao Wuwei porridge. China has a history of drinking Laba porridge for more than 1000 years. It first began in the Song Dynasty. On Laba day, Laba porridge is made in the imperial court, government, temples and people's homes. In the Qing Dynasty, the custom of drinking Laba porridge was even more popular. At the palace, the emperor, empress, Prince, etc. all gave Laba porridge to the ministers of civil and military affairs and attendants, and distributed rice and fruit to all monasteries for monks to eat. In the folk, every family should also make Laba porridge to sacrifice their ancestors; At the same time, families get together to eat and give gifts to relatives and friends.

Although the materials used for Laba porridge in different regions are different, they basically include cereals such as rice, millet, glutinous rice, sorghum rice, purple rice and job's tears, beans such as soybeans, red beans, mung beans, kidney beans and cowpeas, dried fruits such as red dates, peanuts, lotus seeds, medlar seeds, chestnuts, walnut kernels, almonds, longan, raisins and ginkgo. Laba porridge is not only a seasonal food, but also a good health product. It is especially suitable for maintaining the spleen and stomach in cold weather.

Laba noodles

Laba noodles is the seasonal food of Laba Festival. Traditional pasta is popular in Guanzhong area of Shaanxi Province,

In Chengcheng area of Weibei, Shaanxi Province, porridge is generally not eaten on Laba Festival. Every family eats a bowl of Laba noodles on the morning of the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month every year.

With noodles and various beans (red beans) as raw materials, noodles need to be made into leek leaf noodles (noodles with the same width of leek leaves) for standby; Red beans are soaked one night in advance. Laba is used to cook soup. When the water is boiling, turn low heat to the red beans are cooked thoroughly, and cook noodles over medium heat. At the same time, saute the scallion with cooked oil. After the noodles are cooked, pour the scallion oil into the pot.

Wheat kernel rice

Xining Laba Festival does not drink porridge, but eat wheat kernel rice. On the evening of the seventh day of the twelfth lunar month, the newly milled wheat kernel was boiled with beef and mutton, with green salt, ginger peel, pepper, grass fruit, Miao fragrance and other seasonings, and simmered overnight. Qinghai legend says that December 8 of the lunar calendar is the day when Sakyamuni became a Taoist priest. Before becoming a Taoist priest, a shepherdess offered chyle and made porridge with fragrant Valley and fruit for the Buddha. That porridge was wheat kernel porridge, which became the later "Laba porridge" in Qinghai. According to this practice, later generations made this kind of diet in the diet of Qinghai people. It also became popular in restaurants.

Laba garlic

Laba garlic is made on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. It is a custom in the north, especially in North China. The material is vinegar and garlic.

Pickled Laba garlic is a traditional snack mainly popular in the north, especially in North China. It is the food custom of Laba Festival. Make garlic on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. In fact, the material is very simple, that is, vinegar and garlic. The method is also very simple. Put the peeled garlic into a container such as a can or bottle, then pour vinegar, seal the mouth and put it in a cold place. Slowly, the garlic soaked in vinegar will turn green, and finally become green, like emerald. On the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month in northern China, the atmosphere of the new year is better day by day. Most parts of North China have the custom of soaking garlic with vinegar on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, which is called Laba garlic.