Laba porridge is eaten on the eighth or eighteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, which is the annual Laba Festival.
The twelfth lunar month is the end of the year. People in ancient times had nothing to do, so they went out hunting. One is to get more food to make up for the lack of food, and the other is to sacrifice wild animals to ancestors and gods to pray for longevity and avoid disasters.
Laba porridge is porridge cooked with a variety of ingredients on Laba Festival, also known as Qibao Wuwei porridge. The earliest Laba porridge was boiled with adzuki beans, which gradually enriched through evolution and local characteristics. The eighth day of the twelfth lunar month is one of the most important festivals in the twelfth lunar month, which was called "La Ri" in ancient times and commonly known as "Laba Festival".
The moral of eating Laba porridge is 1. Neighbors and villagers send each other porridge and drink Laba, which is a popular day. Every household will cook Laba porridge, and the dried fruit in every household has different ingredients and different flavors. Greet friends to drink a bowl of hot Laba porridge at home, or cook porridge and send it to relatives and friends' neighbors. Your family will send it to me, and my family will send it to express gratitude and blessings for one year. It is a good way to connect feelings.
2. Sacrifice to the God of Eight Cereals to celebrate the bumper harvest of ancient grains, and thank the people from the noble royal family, worship the gods and ancestors, thank you for your kindness this year, and pray for good weather and good luck in Man Cang in the coming year. This custom has been passed down to this day. Farmers in many areas will cook a pot full of Laba porridge for La Worship on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month to express their good wishes for the new year.
3, the five elements of Laba porridge ingredients to strengthen the body and prosper According to the traditional five elements, green is a wood, the main liver and gallbladder; Red is a fire, and it is attached to the heart; Yellow belongs to the soil and lives in the spleen; White metal, lung; Black belongs to water and is good for the kidney. Millet, rice, longan, longan, red dates, osmanthus, sweet potatoes, lilies, lotus seeds ... This colorful porridge combines the five elements of energy of fire, water and soil in Jin Mu and is the best food for shipment.
4, Laba porridge, good deeds, good luck in life, the former big family will set up a big pot at the door on this day, cook a few pots of miscellaneous rice porridge, sprinkle dried beans, and distribute it to the poor, beggars, orphans, weak and sick people. Laba porridge warms people in cold winter and helps people do good deeds. Many temples also send Laba porridge to believers on Laba Festival and drink Fushou porridge for good health and good luck.
5, recalling bitter experience and advocating frugal life There is a folk proverb: "Eat a miscellaneous porridge and remember the experience." According to legend, there was an old couple in ancient times who lived frugally and left their son an ancestral business, while the son and daughter-in-law were lazy and soon lost their possessions. On the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, the young couple were hungry and had no food. Fortunately, the villagers worked together to help, and the young couple mixed these rice, noodles, beans, dates and other 100 ingredients together and cooked a pot of "hybrid porridge". This porridge touched the young couple and cheered them up. After hard work, they finally got a harvest in the second year and their lives got better and better.
Precautions for eating Laba porridge: Anemia patients can add qi-invigorating food anemia patients or elderly and infirm people with insufficient qi and blood, longan and jujube can be added to invigorate qi and nourish blood, and yam can also be added to invigorate spleen and replenish qi.
Dieters should add more adzuki beans. Laba porridge for dieters should be based on chewing taste and satiety, but also add less glutinous rice and white rice, which is too easy to digest and does not add sugar. Add more beans with thicker skins, such as various kidney beans and red beans, to make the texture of porridge soft but not rotten. Coix lachryma-jobi has light permeability, diuresis and weight loss.
Nuts can be added to children's Laba porridge. Children's Laba porridge, it is best to add broken nuts and dried fruits to increase sweetness and appetite.
Diabetic patients control the amount of sugar. Laba porridge for diabetics is just the opposite. Don't add glutinous rice and white rice, let alone sugar. Oats and barley should be used to increase the sticky feeling, and at the same time, more than half of beans should be put to help control the rising speed of blood sugar.
The porridge with indigestion has boiled. If you have indigestion, try to put less soybeans and black beans, because beans are difficult to digest. You can put more warm glutinous rice and stomach-nourishing brown rice. All kinds of ingredients should be fully soaked before cooking, and the cooking time should be longer to make Laba porridge softer and easier to digest.
Pay attention to balanced nutrition. You can't always drink porridge for three meals. This mistake is often made by the elderly. Eating porridge properly is really good, but you can't drink it suddenly. Porridge is a liquid food, which is worse in nutrition than rice with the same volume. And porridge is "not full". I felt full when I ate, but I was hungry again soon. In the long run, the elderly will be malnourished due to insufficient energy and nutrition intake. Therefore, we should also pay attention to balanced nutrition when drinking porridge. Boil the porridge thicker, eat it with meat dishes, or eat snacks between meals. , can replenish energy.