When it comes to Laxia Festival what to eat, people's first reaction is basically to eat Laxia congee, some areas do not grow rice, then eat Laxia noodles, as for Laxia garlic, Laxia tofu and other dishes are also full of flavor. However, when it comes to the Lahai Festival to eat something, but also to count China's Qinghai area is both scenic and novelty - that's right, the local people Lahai Festival to eat the winter common ice. So let The Old Yellow Calendar introduce you to this unique custom.

In Qinghai, there is a custom to offer ice and eat ice on Lunar New Year's Day. Lunar New Year's Eve, just three nine, the sky is cold, the riverbed ice like iron, before dawn people will come to the riverbed to take the ice like white jade crystal-like ice, offered in the dung heap, the ground, the courtyard center, the trough of the head of the shed, fruit tree branches, to show that the next year rainfall is sufficient, the wind and the rain.

Qinghai proverb: the next year to measure the harvest, the first look at the Lahai ice. Men, women and children are not afraid of cold teeth and tongue frozen, such as eating ice candy, "Gaba Gaba" chewing a few pieces of ice under the belly, implying the elimination of disease in addition to disaster. After the Lahai, we have to resign from the old year, welcome the new spring, began to "busy Lunar New Year".

This "four field dedication down" white ice ceremony, said to usher in the auspicious weather, blessing the next year's bumper crop. Legend has it that the Tang Monk took the scriptures back to the east through the river, the scroll fell into the rapids, pig Bajie anxious to hold a rake to salvage some up, the master and disciples four people rushed to a large stone on the sunshine scripture. Who knows the plateau weather changes, instantaneous scripture on the water beads are into white ice, snow, north wind gusts, they had to roll the scripture to catch up.

Later, the master and disciples of the line exactly on the day of the eighth to the eastern foot of the Sun Moon Mountain, the weather cleared up, so the Monkey King took out the scriptures, carefully shaking off the white ice above, drying in the sun. To the next year, where the white ice sprinkled into the place, golden wheat bundles more than cattle hair, lively sheep more than the stars.

And about the "Lahai ice" there is another legend, said that one year the Queen Mother did not know why angry, her old man stomped his foot, the silver river in the sky to the Xining, the freezing cold on the ice, the water of the river is known as the God's water, people scramble to take. So, the old people and said, eat the Lapa ice, all diseases do not haunt the body. Until today, a lot of places in Qinghai there are men and women, young and old Lahai eat ice habit.