What do you eat on Laba Festival

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Laba Festival, commonly known as "Laba", is the eighth day of the twelfth month of the lunar calendar. The ancients had the tradition of offering sacrifices to ancestors and gods and praying for good harvest. In some areas, there was the custom of drinking Laba porridge. Let's share the knowledge about what to eat in Laba Festival.

What do you eat on Laba Festival

First: eat Laba porridge. Laba porridge is also called Qibao Wuwei porridge. There are many kinds of Laba porridge in China. Among them, Peiping is the most particular. There are many items mixed in white rice, such as red dates, lotus seeds, walnuts, chestnuts, almonds, pine nuts, longan, hazelnut, grapes, ginkgo, water chestnut, green silk, roses, red beans, peanuts There are no less than twenty. On the evening of the seventh day of the twelfth lunar month, people begin to be busy, washing rice, soaking fruit, peeling, peeling, and picking. Then they start to cook in the middle of the night, and then stew with low heat until the next morning, and then the Laba porridge is ready.

Second: eat ice. On the day before Laba, people usually scoop water in a steel basin to freeze. On Laba Festival, they take off the ice and break it into pieces. It is said that this day's ice is very magical, eating it in the next year will not have a stomachache.

Third: pickled eight garlic, an old Beijing family, on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, the atmosphere of Chinese New Year is better day by day. In most parts of North China, the custom of soaking garlic with vinegar on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month is called "Laba garlic".

matters needing attention

It should be emphasized that in some places in the north of China where rice is not produced or produced less, people do not eat Laba porridge, but Laba noodles. The next day, the whole family will eat Laba noodles in the morning of the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month.