We all know that Laha congee is a kind of nutritious porridge made with eight different ingredients, which is sweet and delicious, nutritious, and tastes fragrant and sweet, and many people eat Laha congee on Laha Festival. The practice of Laha congee is more delicate, especially the time to choose. So Laha congee is done in advance or on the day? Let's look specifically at it below!

Laha congee is done in advance or on the day to do

Many places will do Laha congee a day in advance, there are also places to do it in the morning, mainly depending on the customs of each place.

For the custom of eating Laha congee, there is also a taboo in some places, that is, eating Laha congee without lunch. In some places, the night before the annual Lahai Festival began to simmer Lahai congee, but have to wait until the next morning to eat, if you can't eat it all, you can share it with friends and family to eat, but not at noon. There is a saying that "early food congee in the next year, food early harvest".

These customs and taboos may seem a bit ridiculous today. With the development of society, people are increasingly weakened these taboos. As long as you are happy, how to pass can be.

What materials are used to make Lapa congee

The materials of Lapa congee are made of various grains and cereals. The main raw materials are rice and glutinous rice, which is more than the other materials, other materials can be selected according to their own preferences, millet, rice, Job's tear grains, red beans, peanuts, red beans, fava beans, etc. Some also add some dried fruit. Some also additionally add some dried fruit, such as: walnuts, lotus seeds, red dates, cinnamon, raisins and so on.

Lapa congee is not a fixed eight ingredients, usually put the favorite miscellaneous grains together, cooking congee can be. Ancient people often in the month of Lunar New Year, that is, the twelfth of the lunar calendar to eat Laha congee, has become a major folk custom handed down to this day, used to celebrate the harvest, but also said to be used to worship is the ancestors, the gods. In Henan Laha congee is also called everyone rice, is used to commemorate the national hero Yue Fei folk traditional food. About the Lapa congee legend, there are many, not to repeat here.

What is the allusion to Lapa Festival

Lapa Festival, also commonly known as "Lapa", is an ancient celebration of the harvest, thanks to the ancestors and gods of a classical ritual. Because it is held in the last month of the year, it is called the month of Lunar New Year, and the day of the ceremony is called Lunar New Year's Day. This festival was used by the ancient people to pay tribute to their ancestors and gods and to hope for a good harvest and good luck in the coming year. On this day, it has been a custom in China since ancient times to drink Lapa congee and eat Lapa garlic.

Legends have a variety of ways of saying, briefly, from the end of the Ming Dynasty, it is said that when Zhu Yuanzhang fell in prison suffering, when the cold days, cold and hungry Zhu Yuanzhang surprisingly from the prison of the rat hole planing to find out some of the red red beans, rice, jujubes and other seven or eight kinds of grains and cereals. Zhu Yuanzhang will be these things boiled into a porridge, because that day is the eighth day of the eighth month of the waxing moon, Zhu Yuanzhang will be beautifully named this pot of miscellaneous grain porridge for the waxing porridge, enjoy a beautiful meal. Later, Zhu Yuanzhang pacified the world, sitting in the north towards the south to do the emperor, in order to commemorate that special day in prison, so the day of the positioning of Lahai Festival, the bowl of grain porridge he ate at that time formally known as Lahai congee.