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What's the date of Laba Festival in 2019? What are the customs of Laba Festival

Some people may not know much about Laba Festival, some may know that it is on the eighth day of the lunar month, but the customs of Laba Festival are not very clear. Today, Xiaobian will come to popularize the traditional customs of Laba Festival for you?

What is the date of Laba Festival? The origin and customs of Laba Festival?

Laba Festival 2018 time: the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month in 1898 (dog year) (Sunday, January 13, 2019)

Congee with Nuts and Dried Fruits

Laba porridge is a kind of porridge made from many kinds of materials, also known as seven treasures and five flavors porridge. Its traditional materials include rice, millet, corn, dates, lotus seeds, peanuts, Guiyuan and various beans (such as red beans, green beans, soybeans, black beans, kidney beans, etc.). With the variety of food and the improvement of living standards, the ingredients of Laba porridge are becoming more and more strange and ingenious.

Laba garlic

How did Laba garlic come from? There is also a saying that in the old days, every business had to make an account on the day of Laba. It was called Laba garlic when the income and expenditure and profit and loss of a year were calculated clearly. The debt is mainly sent to the people who owe her money and inform them that they are ready to pay it back. There is a saying in Beijing: "Laba porridge, Laba garlic, the messenger who puts the debt: pay the debt.". "If someone owes money later, use garlic instead of" calculate "to express taboo. Over time, pickled Laba garlic gradually passed down as a custom.

sacrifice

Laba was originally the day of sacrifice, and some places still keep this custom. The objects of sacrifice include: the God of the first miser, the God of the second miser, the God of the agricultural God, the God of the officials in the field, the God of the post and the table, the man who opens the way, delimits the boundary, the God of the cat and the tiger, the God of the square, the God of the water and the God of the insects, etc. Tang and Song Dynasties later incorporated the worship of the Buddha, the Buddhist custom on this day. Some areas are grand.

Since the Pre-Qin Dynasty, Laba Festival has a custom of offering sacrifices to ancestors and gods, praying for a good harvest and good luck. Moreover, Laba Festival is also the day when Sakyamuni became a Buddhist. Therefore, there are good omens to pray for the protection of gods, Buddhas and ancestors on the day of Laba Festival.

Eat ice

The day before Laba, people usually ladle water in a steel basin to freeze. When Laba Festival comes, they take off the ice and break the ice into pieces. It's said that the ice on this day is magical. After eating it, you won't have stomachache for the next year.

Eat La Ba noodles

In addition to the sweet or salty Laba porridge, and Laba garlic, Laba tofu, of course, there are also Laba noodles in Shaanxi. Before the sun comes out on the morning of the eighth day of the lunar month, every family in Shaanxi has to eat a bowl of hot and fragrant Laba noodles.

Laba noodles are developed on the basis of Laba porridge. In the past, people cooked noodles to worship God on the Laba Festival in Dali, Lintong and Fengxiang of Shaanxi Province, which is called Laba noodles. At first, Laba noodles in Guanzhong rural areas were made of millet and soybeans, and then eight kinds of vegetables and meat were used to make the bottom bar of saozi. Now, with the improvement of living standards, people combine beans with cuisine, and cook the same noodles with walnuts, sesame, peanut, lotus seed, green vegetables, spinach, yellow flower and agaric, and mix them into soup noodles, which are nutritious and delicious. Entering the December, the countryside will have the taste of new year. The taste overflows from the fragrant "Laba vegetables" and "Laba noodles".