Laba Festival is a custom. After Laba, it is the New Year!

illustration of laba customs

laba vinegar, laba porridge, laba tofu, laba garlic and laba noodles.

Eating on Laba Day

Drinking Laba Porridge

In the Song Dynasty, Wu Zimu wrote Dream Liang Lu for six years: "On the eighth day, the temple called it Laba". There are five kinds of porridge in Dasha Temple, which is called Laba porridge. "At this point, Laba porridge has become a folk custom.

On Laba Day, there is a custom of drinking Laba porridge in some places in China. Although the materials used in Laba porridge in different areas are different, they basically include cereals such as rice, millet, glutinous rice, sorghum, purple rice and coix seed, beans such as soybeans, red beans, mung beans, kidney beans and cowpeas, red dates, peanuts, lotus seeds, medlar, chestnuts, walnuts and almonds.

Laba Day Diet

Laba Vinegar

Laba Vinegar is a traditional Laba Festival custom. The custom of soaking garlic with vinegar on Laba day is called Laba vinegar. "You should soak Laba vinegar until the first day of the Lunar New Year, eat jiaozi on the first day of the lunar new year, eat vegetarian jiaozi, and dip it in Laba vinegar for a year, which will give you a special taste. Laba vinegar not only tastes mellow, but also does not go bad for a long time.

pickled garlic with Laba is a traditional snack mainly popular in North China, and it is a holiday food custom of Laba Festival. Garlic soaked in vinegar will turn green, and finally it will become green all over, like jade and jasper.

laba tofu

laba tofu is one of the traditional folk snacks in yi county, Anhui province, and it is a holiday custom. On the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, every household has to bake tofu, which is called "Laba tofu" by the people.

Laba noodles

are popular in Guanzhong area, Shaanxi Province. In Chengcheng area around Weibei, Shaanxi Province, porridge is generally not drunk on Laba Festival. Every year on the morning of the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, every household eats bowls of Laba noodles.

Mairen rice

Xining Laba Festival does not drink porridge, but eats Mairen rice. On the night of the seventh day of the twelfth lunar month, the newly ground wheat kernels are cooked with beef and mutton, with green salt, ginger skin, pepper, tsaoko, Miao Xiang and other condiments, which are boiled by slow fire overnight.

the ancient customs of Laba are recorded

The literature records the ancient customs related to "La".

The meaning of "La" at the end of the year has three meanings: one is "La", which means the alternation of the old and the new (recorded in Sui Shu Etiquette);

Second, "the wax hunter hunts together", which means that the wild hunter gets animals to offer sacrifices to ancestors and gods, and "wax" comes from "meat", which means "winter sacrifice" with meat;

three times, "those who wax, chase the epidemic to welcome the spring". In ancient China, some places had the custom of La Worship, and La Worship's objects were ancestors and five family gods (including door gods, household gods, house gods, kitchen gods and well gods).

Laba proverbs and poems

Children, don't be greedy. After Laba, it will be the New Year.

"La Ri"-(Tang) Du Fu

La Ri is warm all the year round, but it's completely frozen this year. Invasion of Ling Xue color also day lily, leaking spring has wicker.

binge drinking to get drunk at night, and return home for the first time. Oral fat powder medicine with grace, green tube silver baby under nine.

"Walking to the West Village on December 8th"-(Song Dynasty) Lu You

The wind and the meaning of the twelfth lunar month are already in spring, but I have passed my neighbor because of scattered policies. In the desert Chai Men, there are many cattle trails and wild waterfront.

medicine is the only thing needed for many diseases, and those who have not moved in poor subjects are idle people. At present, Buddhism and porridge feed each other, which makes Jiangcun more frugal.