Laba Festival is a traditional festival in China. Before this day, every family will cook Laba porridge, but not all places have the custom of drinking Laba porridge. Do you know how Laba Festival is spent everywhere? Let's have a look
Laba Festival local customs
1. Shaanxi
After the Laba porridge is cooked, we should worship the gods and ancestors first. After that, give gifts to relatives and friends. Be sure to send them out before noon. The last is for the whole family. The leftover Laba porridge, which has been preserved for a few days, is a good sign, taking its meaning of "surplus every year". If you give porridge to the poor, it is to accumulate virtue for yourself. In some places where rice is not produced or less produced, people don't eat Laba porridge, but Laba noodles. Use all kinds of fruits and vegetables to make Sao Zi and roll out the noodles. In the morning of the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, the whole family eats together.
2. Gansu
Traditionally, Laba porridge is cooked with grains and vegetables. After cooking, it is not only eaten by the family, but also distributed to the neighbors, but also used to feed livestock. Wuwei area of Gansu Province pays attention to "vegetarian Laba". It eats rice thick rice, lentil rice or thick rice. After cooking, it is eaten with fried loose seeds and Mahua. The folk custom calls it "lentil porridge bubble powder".
3. 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 will be boiled together with beef and mutton, with green salt, ginger peel, pepper, grass fruit, Miao flavor and other seasonings. After a night of slow cooking, the wheat kernel rice is very delicious.
4. Jiangsu and Zhejiang
Jiangsu people eat Laba porridge, which is divided into sweet and salty. Laba porridge should add wild rice, water chestnut, walnut kernel, pine nut kernel, Euryale ferox, red jujube, chestnut, agaric, green vegetables, Flammulina velutipes, etc. If you cook salty porridge, add green vegetables and oil.
Zhejiang people usually cook Laba porridge with walnut kernel, pine nut kernel, lotus seed, red jujube, longan meat and litchi meat, which is sweet and delicious. It is said that this method of cooking porridge was spread from Nanjing.
5. Northwest
Laba Festival is on the plateau of Northern Shaanxi. In addition to a variety of rice and beans, porridge has to be mixed with a variety of dried fruits, tofu and meat. After eating, you should spread the porridge on the door, the stove and the trees outside the door to ward off evil spirits and avoid disasters and meet the agricultural harvest in the coming year. Moreover, Laba is forbidden to eat vegetables on this day. If you eat vegetables on this day, there will be more weeds in the crops. On Laba day, people not only eat Laba porridge, but also offer porridge to their ancestors and granaries.
6. Ningxia
Laba rice is usually cooked with various beans, rice and potatoes, plus' ears of wheat 'cut into diamond willow leaves with wheat flour or buckwheat flour, or' sparrow head 'made into small round eggs, and then add onion flower oil before coming out of the pot. Like northern Shaanxi, the whole family only eats Laba rice, not vegetables.
7. Beijing
Laba porridge in Beijing can be said to be the most exquisite. There are many things mixed in white rice, such as red dates, lotus seeds, walnuts, chestnuts, almonds, pine nuts, longan, grapes, ginkgo, green silk, roses, red beans and peanuts & hellip& hellip; No less than 20. On the evening of the seventh day of the twelfth lunar month, people began to wash rice, soak fruits, peel and remove stones. At midnight, they began to stew with low fire. Laba porridge was not ready until the next morning.