The custom foods of the Laba Festival are as follows:

1. Laba porridge

The most common traditional food during the Laba Festival is Laba porridge. In ancient times, emperors of all dynasties would make wax sacrifices with dry objects every year on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month to offer sacrifices to the gods. On the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month every year, people mix dried fruits and vegetables together and cook them into porridge to offer to the God of Agriculture. Laba porridge is homophonic to Laba celebration, which means to celebrate the harvest and pray. This is the origin of Laba porridge.

2. Laba Cake

Laba Cake is such a strange term. It seems that I only knew Laba porridge before, but had never heard of Laba cake. It turns out that this Laba cake is different from sticky cake. It is not independent like Wo Wotou, but something like rice dessert. But there are still a lot of things like dates and sticky rice.

3. Laba noodles

Laba noodles are the seasonal food of Laba Festival. Local traditional pasta is popular in the Guanzhong area of ??Shaanxi Province. In the Chengcheng area in the Weibei area of ??Shaanxi Province, porridge is generally not eaten during the Laba Festival. Every year on the morning of the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, every household has a bowl of Laba noodles.

4. Laba Vinegar

What is good to eat during the Laba Festival? Vinegar pickled garlic. Pickling Laba garlic means soaking garlic in vinegar on Laba day, also called Laba vinegar. After soaking for more than 20 days, it was the Spring Festival. Due to the soaking in vinegar, the whole garlic turned green, which was very beautiful, and the vinegar also had the spiciness of garlic. On New Year's Eve, around the Spring Festival, I eat dumplings with Laba garlic and vinegar, and mix them with cold dishes. It tastes good.

5. Laba Tofu

Laba Tofu is one of the traditional folk snacks of the Han people in Yixian County, Anhui Province, and is a festive food custom. On the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, on the eve of the Spring Festival, every household will dry tofu. Folks call this kind of sun-dried tofu Laba tofu. Laba tofu is usually hung with straw ropes in a ventilated place to dry. It can be picked when eating. It can generally be kept in the air for three months without deterioration or odor.

Origin:

The Laba Festival falls on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month every year. The main custom is "drinking Laba porridge". Laba Festival is one of the grand Buddhist festivals. According to Buddhist records, Sakyamuni practiced asceticism for many years before he became enlightened, and his body was broken and his bones were broken. Then he discovered that asceticism was not the path to ultimate liberation, and decided to give up asceticism.

At this time, he met a shepherd girl presenting chylo. After eating, he regained his strength, sat under the Bodhi tree and meditated, and "enlightened" on December 8. To commemorate this event, Buddhists held a ceremony on this day and cooked porridge with rice and fruits as offerings to the Buddha. "Meng Liang Lu" written by Wu Zimu in the Southern Song Dynasty records: "On the eighth day of this month, the temple calls it Laba.