1, Laba porridge

Laba has the custom of eating Laba porridge on this day. Laba porridge is also called Qibao Wuwei porridge.

Although the ingredients of Laba porridge in different regions are different, they basically include cereals such as rice, millet, glutinous rice, sorghum rice, purple rice and coix seed, beans such as soybeans, red beans and mung beans, and dried fruits such as red dates, peanuts, lotus seeds, medlar, chestnuts, walnuts, almonds, longan, raisins and ginkgo.

Step 2 cook "five beans"

In some places, Laba porridge is not called Laba porridge, but called Wudou. Some are made on Laba Festival, and some are made on the fifth day of the twelfth lunar month. Some "sparrow heads" are also cooked with flour, rice and beans (five kinds of beans).

3. Laba vinegar

Laba vinegar is a traditional custom of Laba Festival. There is a custom of soaking garlic with vinegar in Laba Festival in northern China, which is called Laba vinegar. Laba vinegar should be soaked on New Year's Day, jiaozi should be eaten on the first day, and jiaozi should be a vegetarian. You should be a vegetarian for a year, and dip it in Laba vinegar, which will have a unique taste. "Laba vinegar" not only tastes mellow, but also does not go bad after a long time.

4. Laba garlic

From the north of China to the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, the atmosphere of Chinese New Year is getting worse every day. In most parts of northern China, the custom of soaking garlic with vinegar is called Laba garlic. It is a custom in the north, especially in North China to brew Laba garlic on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. Its materials are vinegar and garlic cloves.

5, 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, on the eve of the Spring Festival, every household will bake tofu, which is called "Laba tofu" by the people.

6. Laba noodles

Laba noodles, seasonal food for Laba Festival. Traditional pasta is popular in Guanzhong area of 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 several bowls of laba noodles.

7. Wheat and rice

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

8. Eat ice

On the day before Laba, people usually use steel pots to scoop water for freezing. When the Laba Festival is over, they will remove the ice and break it. It is said that the ice on this day is magical, and it won't hurt your stomach after eating it for a year.

9. laba rice

Raw materials: 500g of japonica rice, 50g of glutinous rice, 250g of bacon, 50g of peanuts, 40g of dried bean curd, 20g of laver, 80g of white radish, 50g of cabbage stalk, 3g of pepper, 0/0g of ginger slices10g of refined salt.