Generally speaking, Lahai Festival is on the eighth day of the Lunar New Year every year, which is the first traditional festival inside the Lunar New Year, and it means that it is about to celebrate the New Year. There are many customs and taboos at the time of Lahai Festival. So what are the taboos on the Lahai Festival? Let's look at it below!

What are the customs of Lahai 1, Lahai tofu

Lahai tofu is Anhui Qianxian folk flavor specialties, in the Spring Festival on the eve of Lahai, that is, before and after the eighth day of the twelfth month of the lunar calendar, Qianxian households have to sun tanning tofu, the folk will be this natural sun tanning tofu known as Lahai tofu.

Lahai congee

2, cooking five beans

Some places over the Lahai porridge, not called "Lahai congee", but called cooking "five beans", some in the day of Lahai cooking, some in the first five days of Lahai on the cooking, but also pinch some with the surface! "Bird head", and rice, beans (five kinds of beans) with cooking. It is said that people ate the "bird head", sparrow headache, the next year does not jeopardize the crops. Cooked this "five beans", in addition to self-catering, but also gift relatives and neighbors. Every day at dinner to get hot with food, have been eating until the twenty-third of Lunar New Year, symbolizing the surplus for years to come.

3, Lahai garlic

Pickle Lahai garlic is a custom in the north, especially in northern China. As the name suggests, it is on the eighth day of the lunar month to soak garlic. In fact, the material is very simple, is vinegar and garlic cloves. The practice is also extremely simple, the peeled garlic cloves into a can, bottle or other container can be sealed inside, and then poured into the vinegar, seal the mouth to a cold place. Slowly, soaked in vinegar garlic will become green, and finally will become a body turquoise, as jade jasper.

4, Laha noodles

Some of the northern part of China does not produce or less rice places, people do not eat Laha porridge, but eat Laha noodles. Every other day with a variety of fruits and vegetables into a bashful, the noodles rolled out, to the morning of the eighth of Lunar New Year, the whole family to eat Laha noodles.

5, Lapa congee

China's history of drinking Lapa congee, has been more than a thousand years. The earliest began in the Song Dynasty. Every Lahai day, whether it is the court, the government, the temple or the people's home to do Lahai congee. In the Qing Dynasty, the custom of drinking Laha congee was even more prevalent. In the court, the emperor, the empress, the emperor's son and so on to the civil and military ministers, court ladies give Laha congee, and to the various monasteries to distribute rice, fruit and so on for the monks to eat. In the folk world, families also make Laha congee to honor their ancestors. At the same time, the family reunion together to eat, gift friends and relatives.

All over China, the pattern of Laha congee, competition, a variety of varieties. Among them, the most elaborate in Beiping, mixed in the white rice in more items, such as dates, lotus seeds, walnuts, chestnuts, almonds, pine nuts, cinnamon, hazelnuts, grapes, white fruits, rhombus, green silk, roses, red beans, peanuts ...... total of no less than twenty kinds. People in the evening of the seventh day of the first month of the lunar calendar, began to get busy, washing rice, soaking fruit, dialing skin, core, fine picking and then in the middle of the night to start cooking, and then stewed with a slight fire, has been stewed to the next morning, Lapa congee is considered to be simmering well.

More sophisticated people, but also the first fruit carved into human figures, animals, flowers, and then put in the pot to cook. The more distinctive is to put "fruit lion" in the congee. Fruit lion is made of several kinds of fruit in the shape of a lion, with picking out the pits of jujube roasted dry crisp jujube as the lion body, half of the walnut kernel as the lion's head, peach kernel as the lion's feet, and sweet almonds used for the lion's tail. The sweet almonds are used for the lion's tail. Then they are stuck together with sugar and placed in a bowl of congee, resembling a small lion. If the bowl is bigger, you can put double lions or four small lions. The more elaborate ones are made of date paste, bean paste, yam, hawthorn cake, and other foods with various colors, and are pinched into the figures of the Eight Immortals, the Longevity Star, and the Lohan. This kind of decorated Laha congee can only be seen on the offering table of the big temples in the past.

After the Laha congee is boiled, it should be dedicated to the gods and ancestors first. After that, it is to be presented to friends and relatives, and must be sent out before noon. Finally, it is eaten by the whole family. Leftover Lapa congee, save a few days to eat there are left over, but a good omen, to take its "year after year" meaning. If you give the porridge to the poor people to eat, it is more for their own virtue.

What are the taboos of Lahai Festival 1, Lahai Festival taboos of Lahai Festival do not go back to his mother's home

In accordance with the old saying in the past, there are always a few days in the year, married daughters can not go back to her mother's home, said taboo, there is to speak. Into the waxing moon, the first taboo is Lahai. Lahai this day back to the mother's home will be inauspicious for the mother-in-law, the mother-in-law will be a hundred years after the death of lying down. Another saying: "If you don't eat rice from your mother's house on Laha, your grandparents won't be able to pay you back", meaning that you will be poor in your own house. Some even believe that, in the month of Lunar New Year, Lunar New Year, eighteen, twenty-eight can not be in the mother's home.

2, Lunar New Year's taboos of Lunar New Year do not move

Feng Shui, Lunar New Year is cold, if you venture into the new mansion, the cold atmosphere will block the home of the atmosphere of prosperity, which sounds like there is a certain amount of natural scientific reasoning. But with the improvement of home technology, many houses have been implemented in the whole house heating, do not have to deliberately invite some friends to the new house as in the past, Wang Wang popularity. The reason why there is a "waxing month can not move" argument is nothing more than fear that people will live in the cold hands and feet, the body is not good, and now for people with home heating, this is no longer a problem.

3, Lahai dietary taboos

The eighth day of the twelfth month of the lunar calendar, folklore is called Lahai, since then, "the flavor of the year" is getting stronger and stronger. Laha eat Laha congee custom, in our country has been a thousand years, there is something else.

For the custom of eating Laha congee, in some places is also there, that is, eat Laha congee but no lunch. The night before each year, people began to simmer Laha congee, wait until the next morning to eat, if you can not eat the words can be distributed to friends and family neighbors to eat, but not over noon. There is a saying that "early food congee in the next year, food early harvest".

Indigestion of the Laha congee can consider less soy, black beans, etc., because they do digest a little hard. You can put some warm body of glutinous rice, add more stomach brown rice. Starchy beans and nourishing ingredients should be soaked well before cooking, and will be softer and easier to digest after cooking. Diabetic congee is the opposite, do not add glutinous rice and white rice, and do not add sugar. It is advisable to use oats, barley to increase the viscosity, and at the same time to put more than half of the beans, in order to help control the rate of increase in blood sugar.

Weight watchers of Lapa congee on the chewy texture and satiety, but also to add less glutinous rice and white rice, which is too easy to digest ingredients, do not add sugar. To add more thick skin starchy beans, such as a variety of kidney beans, red beans, etc., so that the texture of the porridge is soft but not rotten. As for the children's congee, you may want to add some chopped nuts and dried fruits to increase the sweetness and help them to eat this healthy food happily.

The origin of Lahat Festival

In ancient times, December was the month of sacrifice to the "gods" called Lah, so December on the lunar calendar was called the month of Lah.

According to historical records, Lapa is a festival of Confucianism and Buddhism. According to the Book of Rites, the Son of Heaven had eight great Lunar gods, and Lunar sacrifices were practiced from the beginning of the Ijian clan. The original meaning of La is to seek, twelve months a year, and at the end of the year, all kinds of objects are gathered to sacrifice to the god of La. The main object of the Raksha festival was to honor the god Sakshin, who was the first to plant grains, and Sakshin, who was in charge of grains, in order to repay them for their patronage of the grain harvest.

Lapa Festival, also known as Lapa Festival, Lapa Festival, Marquis Lapa or Buddha's day, is the original ancient celebration of the harvest, thanks to the ancestors and the gods of the sacrificial rituals, in addition to the activities of the ancestors and gods, people have to expel the epidemic. This activity comes from the ancient exorcism (ancient rituals to drive away ghosts and epidemics). Prehistoric times, one of the medical methods of exorcism to cure the disease. As sorcery activities in the waxing moon drums to drive out the epidemic custom, now in Hunan Xinhua and other areas still remain. Later, it evolved into a religious festival to commemorate Buddha Shakyamuni's attainment of enlightenment. Xia dynasty called the waxing day for the "Ka Ping", the Shang dynasty for the "clear sacrifice", the Zhou dynasty for the "big wax"; held in December, it is called the month for the waxing month, the day of the waxing festival for the waxing day. Pre-qin wax day in the winter solstice after the third day of the eleventh day of the north and south dynasty began to be fixed in the eighth day of the month of wax.