Laba Festival, a traditional Chinese festival, commonly known as "Laba Festival", falls on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month every year. It is mainly popular in northern my country. The custom of this festival is "drinking Laba porridge". Laba is one of the grand festivals in Buddhism. It is the day when Buddha Sakyamuni became enlightened. It is also known as "Dharma Treasure Festival", "Buddha Enlightenment Festival", "Enlightenment Meeting", etc. The word "Laba" originated from the Northern and Southern Dynasties, when it was also called "Laba Day". It was originally a Buddhist festival. It evolved over the generations and gradually became a well-known folk festival.
Laba porridge, also known as "Seven Treasures and Five Flavors Porridge", "Buddha Porridge", "Everyone's Rice", etc., is a kind of porridge made from a variety of ingredients. The earliest written records of Laba porridge date back to the Song Dynasty. The history of eating Laba porridge in our country has been more than a thousand years. On Laba day, no matter the government, monasteries or ordinary people’s homes, they must make Laba porridge. In the Qing Dynasty, the custom of drinking Laba porridge became even more popular.
In the north, there is a saying that "it's the New Year after Laba Festival", and celebrating Laba Festival means the beginning of the New Year. Every Laba Festival, people in the north are busy peeling garlic to make vinegar, soaking Laba garlic, and eating Laba noodles and Laba porridge. Laba Festival is a typical northern festival
Laba Festival, commonly known as "Laba Festival", is the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. The ancients had the tradition of offering sacrifices to ancestors and gods and praying for a good harvest. In some areas, there is the custom of drinking Laba porridge. .
Speaking of the Laba Festival, what I am talking about is the customs and habits of our hometown. On the Laba Festival, every household has to wrap candied haws and cook Laba porridge.
Since I was a child, I have seen and gone through the process of making candied haws and laba porridge countless times. 1> The process of making candied haws is very simple, that is, wrap the sugar in the white flour that has been fermented in advance. Then steam it in a pot for dozens of minutes before eating.
2> The production process of Laba porridge is correspondingly much more complicated.
The ingredients of Laba porridge include rice, peanuts, red dates, millet, glutinous rice and other ingredients.
The production process is to put all the above things in a pot and cook them for more than half an hour before they are ready for consumption.
Speaking of Laba and thinking of Laba, tomorrow is the Laba Festival. At this moment, I seem to have smelled the aroma of Laba porridge. I can’t wait to go back to my hometown and eat the candied haws made by my mother. Laba porridge.
The taste of candied haws, the taste of Laba porridge, that is the