Laba Festival is coming soon. Laba is the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, abbreviated as "Laba". On this day, every family will make Laba porridge. So do you know how to make the handwritten newspaper of Laba Festival? Let's have a look with Xiaobian
Laba Festival Diet
Congee with Nuts and Dried Fruits
On Laba day, some places in China have the custom of drinking Laba porridge (that is, eating Laba porridge). 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.
The earliest Laba porridge was cooked with red beans. After evolution, coupled with local characteristics, it became more and more colorful. The literati of the Southern Song Dynasty carefully wrote the old stories of Wulin and said: "walnuts, pine nuts, milk Qin, persimmon and chestnut are used as porridge, which is called Laba porridge." Fu chadunchong of the Qing Dynasty said in the Yanjing year of life that "Laba porridge is cooked with yellow rice, white rice, jiangmi, millet, water chestnut, peeled jujube mud, etc. and water, and dyed with red peach kernel, almond, melon seed, peanut, hazelnut, pine nut, white sugar, brown sugar and trivial grape for spot dyeing", which is quite characteristic of the capital.
Cook 'five beans'
In some places, Laba porridge is not called "Laba porridge", but called "five beans". Some are cooked on the same day of Laba, and some are cooked on the fifth day of the twelfth lunar month. They also need to pinch some "bird heads" with noodles to cook with rice and beans (five kinds of beans).
Laba vinegar
Laba vinegar is a traditional Laba Festival custom. In northern China, there is a custom of soaking garlic with vinegar on Laba day, named 'Laba vinegar'. Laba vinegar should be soaked until the first day of the lunar new year. Eat dumplings on the first day of the lunar new year. Eat vegetarian dumplings. Take the meaning of being plain and clean for a year and dip it in Laba vinegar. It has a different taste. " Laba vinegar 'not only tastes mellow, but also can't be broken for a long time.
Laba garlic
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. 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.
Eat ice
The day before Laba, people usually use steel basins to scoop water to freeze. When Laba Festival comes, they take off the basin of ice and knock the ice into pieces. It is said that the ice on this day is very magical. Eating it won't hurt your stomach in the next year.
Laba Tofu
Laba tofu is one of the traditional folk snacks in Yixian County, Anhui Province. On the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month on the eve of the Spring Festival, every family has to dry tofu. People call this dried tofu 'Laba tofu'. On the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month on the eve of the Spring Festival, every family has to dry tofu. People call this kind of dried tofu 'Laba tofu'. The production method is to make tofu from superior small soybeans, cut it into round or square blocks, then apply salt water, dig a small hole in the middle of the upper part, put an appropriate amount of salt, and bake it slowly in the mild sun in winter, so that the salt is gradually inhaled and the water is gradually dried, that is, Laba tofu. The finished product is as yellow as jade, soft in mouth, salty and sweet in taste, fragrant and fresh. If shrimp and other ingredients are added during drying, the taste will be better. " Laba tofu is usually hung in a ventilated place with straw rope and picked when eating. Generally, it can be dried for three months without deterioration and taste change. It can be eaten alone or fried and stewed with meat. When entertaining distinguished guests, Yixian people also carved it into animals and flowers, poured sesame oil, mixed with onions, ginger, garlic and other seasonings, and made it into a cold dish to become a feast.
Laba noodles
Laba noodles is the seasonal food of Laba Festival. Traditional pasta is popular in Guanzhong, Shaanxi Province. In Chengcheng, 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.