"Children don't you greedy, after the Laba is the year", today will usher in the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, that is, Laba Festival, commonly known as "Laba". From this day on, people begin to buy New Year goods to welcome the coming Spring Festival.



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In ancient times, "wax" is a kind of sacrifice in our country. In the Shang Dynasty, people held "sacrificial offerings" with prey every year. To the northern and southern Dynasties, the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month has been set as the "Laba Festival", to take the twelfth lunar Day to worship ancestors to offer Buddha. In the cold earth and the middle of winter, people put meat and wine on the table, seriously and religiously worship their ancestors and gods, thank the blessings of hundreds of gods, and pray for grain harvest and prosperity of people and animals.

Laba custom



Porridge eaten on the eighth day of the Twelfth Lunar month

In the traditional sense, this day also conveys the signal of entering the "end of the year", and every household has begun to "busy". After the Laba, it is equivalent to preparing for the New Year. It is said that the history of eating Laba porridge in China has been more than 1,000 years, as early as the Song Dynasty. Every Laba this day, whether it is the court, the government, the temple or people's homes to do Laba porridge. In the Qing Dynasty, the custom of drinking Laba porridge was more prevalent. Before the popularity of Laba porridge, the folk had the habit of eating red bean porridge during the winter solstice to dispel evil spirits and avoid epidemics, believing that eating porridge in winter could ensure peace. In addition, "Laba porridge" does not have to be cooked with eight ingredients. Laba porridge can be boiled with raw materials, the more auspicious, but there are three essential, that is, jujube, Job's tears rice and water chestnut rice. Jujube peel and pound into mud into the porridge with cooking, generally with casserole cook pay attention to, at the same time to fry the job's tears good dyed red, when the pot sprinkled on the Laba porridge, both take the meaning of flourishing.


Laba garlic

In the northern regions, there is a custom of soaking garlic in vinegar on the Laba day, until the first day of the New Year. First eat dumplings, dip Laba vinegar, with laba garlic, do not have a taste. "Laba vinegar" not only tastes mellow, but also not bad for a long time.

Laba tofu

Laba tofu is a folk specialty in Qian County, Anhui province. Around the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, every household in Qian County has to make tofu, which is called "Laba tofu" by the people.

Laba noodles

Some places in northern China that do not produce or produce less rice, people do not eat Laba porridge, but eat Laba noodles. The first day with a variety of fruits and vegetables made of saozi, roll the noodles, to the eighth morning of the twelfth month the whole family eat Laba noodles.

Rice cooked on the Twelfth Lunar Month

The custom of Ningxia, Henan and other places is to eat Laba rice.

Laba rice in Ningxia is generally cooked with a variety of beans, rice, potatoes, porridge, plus wheat or buckwheat noodles cut into rhombohedron willow leaf slices, or a bird head made into a small round egg, and then put scallion oil before the pot.

Eat ice

The day before the holiday, some people will find a container filled with water and put it outside to let it naturally freeze. On the day of the Laba Festival, the ice in the basin was broken into pieces. According to folklore, this ice is so magical that you can eat it for a year without a stomachache.

Laba porridge taste, with the wish for happiness, hope for reunion, good wishes for the New Year, Laba is the year, a year one reunion. Qingdao Tianxing cable wish you everything "porridge" full, Laba festival happiness!

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