Laba Festival, a bowl of sweet and soft glutinous Laba porridge is probably the best choice. Every Laba Festival, every family will make Laba porridge, so do you know why to eat Laba porridge? The magical origin and origin of Laba porridge.
Laba is a grand festival of Buddhism. Before liberation, Buddhist temples around the country held bathing Buddha meetings and chanted sutras, and imitated the legend of shepherdess's offering chyme before Sakyamuni became a Taoist priest. She used Xianggu, fruit and other porridge to make porridge for Buddha, which is called "Laba porridge". And give Laba porridge to disciples and good men and women, and then it became popular in the folk. It is said that before the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, some monasteries, with bowls in their hands, turned their rice, chestnut, dates, nuts and other materials into rice porridge and distributed them to the poor. It is said that after eating it, you can get the blessing of Buddha, so the poor people call it "Buddha porridge". Lu You's poem in the Southern Song Dynasty says: 'at present, the porridge of Buddha is more fed to each other, while the village of juejiang is new. It is said that there is a restaurant for storing leftovers in Tianning Temple, a famous temple in Hangzhou. Usually, monks dry the leftovers every day and accumulate a year's surplus grain. On the eighth day of the first lunar month, they boil it into Laba porridge and give it to the believers. It is called "Fu Shou porridge" or "Fu Shou porridge", which means that after eating it, they can increase their happiness and longevity. It can be seen that monks cherished the virtue of food at that time.
Laba porridge has the function of witchcraft in the folk. If the yard is planted with flowers and fruit trees, we should also smear some Laba porridge on the branches, believing that more fruits will be produced in the next year. On the day of Laba, in addition to offering sacrifices to ancestors and gods, there are also mourning and mourning for the country's subjugation.
The magical origin of Laba porridge
Sakyamuni, the founder of Buddhism, was the son of King Jingfan of kapilowei (now in Nepal) in the north of ancient India. He saw that all living beings were suffering from life, old age and death. He was dissatisfied with Brahman's theocratic rule at that time, abandoned the throne and became a monk. There was no harvest at the beginning. After six years of hard work, on the 8th of the 12th month, he became a Buddha under the bodhi tree. In these six years of hard work, I only eat one hemp and one meter a day. Later generations don't forget his sufferings. They eat porridge every year on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month as a memorial. Laba became the Buddha's memorial day. Laba is a grand festival of Buddhism. Before liberation, Buddhist temples around the country held bathing Buddha meetings, chanted sutras, and imitated the legend of shepherdess's offering chyme before Sakyamuni became a Taoist priest. She used Xianggu, fruit and other porridge to make porridge for Buddha, which is called Laba porridge. And Laba porridge will be given to disciples and good men and faithless women, later in the folk customs. It is said that before the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, some monasteries, with bowls in their hands, turned their rice, chestnut, dates, nuts and other materials into rice porridge and distributed them to the poor. It's said that after eating it, you can get the blessing of Buddha, so the poor people call it porridge. Lu You's poem in the Southern Song Dynasty says that nowadays, porridge is more important than congee, and the village is new. It is said that there is a restaurant for storing leftovers in Tianning Temple, a famous temple in Hangzhou. Usually, monks dry the leftovers every day and accumulate a year's surplus grain. On the eighth day of the first lunar month, they boil the leftovers into Laba porridge and give it to the believers. It's called Fu Shou porridge Fu Fu congee, which means that after eating it, you can increase your happiness and longevity. It can be seen that monks cherished the virtue of food at that time.
Local flavor of Laba porridge
Laba porridge in Beijing is the most exquisite. There are more things mixed in white rice, such as red dates, lotus seeds, walnuts, chestnuts, almonds, pine nuts, longan, grapes, white fruits, green silk, roses, red beans, peanuts & hellip; hellip; no less than 20 kinds. People begin to wash rice, soak fruit, peel and core on the seventh night of the first lunar month, and stew with low fire in the middle of the night until the next morning.
Laba Festival in the Northern Shaanxi plateau, porridge in addition to a variety of rice, beans, but also to join a variety of dried fruits, tofu and meat mix cooked. After eating, we should spread porridge on the door, the stove and the trees outside the door to ward off evil spirits and avoid disasters, and welcome the next year's agricultural harvest. Moreover, it is forbidden to eat vegetables on Laba day. If you eat vegetables this day, there will be more weeds in the crops. On the day of Laba, people not only eat Laba porridge, but also use porridge to worship ancestors and granaries.
In some places of Shaanxi where there is no or little rice production, people do not eat Laba porridge, but eat Laba noodles. Use all kinds of fruits and vegetables to make saozi and roll the noodles well. In the morning of the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, the whole family will eat together.