Laba porridge was originally a religious festival food of Buddhism. Dieting and Dieting Custom in the Year of China contains: Before becoming a Buddha, Sakyamuni traveled all over India to find the true meaning of life. When he arrived in the northern India, he was tired and hungry and fainted. At this time, a shepherdess saw this scene and quickly took out her lunch and fed it to Sakyamuni bit by bit. Shepherdess's lunch is a mixture of all kinds of food, including all kinds of wild fruits collected. Sakyamuni recovered after eating this delicious lunch. Later, he bathed in the Nielian River, sat under the bodhi tree and meditated, and became a Buddha in early December. Since then, every year on the day of "La Qi", monks in the temple have to hold fresh dried fruits and put them in washed utensils to stay up until dawn. The cooked porridge will be used to worship Buddha. At that time, monks in temples would recite scriptures and then drink porridge as a souvenir. This is the origin of Laba porridge. Buddhism spreads far and wide in our country and follows this custom. As for the ingredients of Laba porridge, almonds, peach kernels, preserved fruits, glutinous rice, soybeans and beans were mostly used in the Northern Song Dynasty. In the Southern Song Dynasty, people used walnuts, pine nuts and persimmon chestnuts. In the Yuan Dynasty, the color of porridge was crimson, also known as red porridge and vermilion porridge, and red raw materials such as red beans, lotus seeds, peanuts and red dates might be used. ?
Rice cakes-Eating rice cakes during the Spring Festival "Righteously choose the year to win the year, so as to pray for the new year." It means that everything goes well every year. The types of rice cakes are: white rice cakes and yellow rice cakes in the north; There are water mill rice cakes in Jiangnan; There is glutinous rice in the southwest; There are red turtle cakes in Taiwan Province Province. In the book Dialect written by Han Dynasty, the title of "Gao" was popular in Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties. Jia Sixie's Book of Qi Yaomin records the production method. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, pastry has developed into a snack that can be served all year round in the market, and it has different flavors from north to south. There are two kinds of rice cakes in the north: steaming and frying. In addition to steaming and frying, there are also methods of frying slices and cooking soup in the south. ?
Jiaozi —— As early as the 5th century, jiaozi was a common food for Han people in the north. At that time, jiaozi was "shaped like a crescent moon, and the world was delicious." But at that time, jiaozi ate soup, so it was called "Wonton". In the Tang Dynasty, the diet was the same as today. 1972, Jiaozi was found in the tombs of the Tang Dynasty in Turpan, Xinjiang, and its shape was different from that of the modern seven. Jiaozi was called "Jiaozi" in Song Dynasty, and there were also Jiaozi in novels of Qing Dynasty. In Yuan Dynasty, the word "flat food" was found in Hu Sihui's Eating. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, new names such as "dumplings", "water snacks" and "boiled cakes" appeared. ?
Lantern Festival-Lantern Festival, which Taoism calls "Shangyuan Festival". According to the real (female+lang) banknotes in Yi Tu in the Yuan Dynasty, I quoted "Three Jade Notes": After the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon, I missed her and became ill. On the fourteenth day of the first month, a boy suddenly asked for an audience, claiming to be the messenger of Chang 'e, and said, "Madam knows what you are thinking, and there is no way to come down. Tomorrow is the full moon, so you should make a pill out of rice flour, put it in the northwest of the room, call it Mrs.' s name, and you can come down in three nights. " You followed the law, and Chang 'e really came. It can be seen that eating Lantern Festival means "reunion as the moon". ?
Spring cakes-Eating spring cakes in beginning of spring is an ancient custom in China. In the Jin dynasty, there was a "five taro plates", that is, "spring plates", which put spring cakes and vegetables in the same plate. During the Tang and Song Dynasties, eating spring cakes became more and more popular in beginning of spring, and the emperor gave them to officials. At that time, spring cakes were very particular: "Cuilv red silk, golden rooster and jade swallow were extremely particular about production, and each dish cost 10,000 yuan." People also use it to give gifts to each other. The custom of eating spring cakes also influenced the brotherly peoples. For example, when Lu Ye Chu Lu followed Genghis Khan on his expedition to the western regions, he ordered the chef to cook a spring dish and wrote a poem: "I accidentally forgot the date of beginning of spring yesterday, so I will try to cook a spring dish." At the beginning of this case, the silver line was chaotic, and the sand bottle was long. Mix well with peas, knead chopped green onion, and finely chop Artemisia annua and chives. Why bother to be anointed when you are full with He Zeng? "