1. Laha congee
Laha day has the custom of eating Laha congee, Laha congee is also known as the seven treasures and five flavors of congee. The history of drinking Laha congee in China has been more than a thousand years.
2. Cooking "five beans"
Some places cook congee on Lahai, not called "Lahai congee", but called cooking "five beans", some cooked on Lahai day, some on the fifth day of the first month of Lahai. Some cooked on the day of Lunar New Year's Day, some cooked on the fifth day of the first month of the Lunar New Year, but also with the surface pinch some "birds head", and rice, beans (five kinds of beans) with the cooking.
3. Lapa vinegar
Lapa vinegar, traditional Lapa customs. In northern China, there is a custom of soaking garlic in vinegar on the day of Laha, the name "Laha vinegar".
4. Lahai garlic
Northern China to the eighth of Lunar New Year, the New Year's atmosphere of a day more than a day, most areas in northern China on the eighth of Lunar New Year with vinegar soaked in garlic on the day of the custom, called Lahai garlic.
5. Lahai tofu
Lahai tofu is one of the traditional folk snacks in Yixian County, Anhui Province, the festival food customs. On the eighth day of the eighth month before the Spring Festival, every family will be sun-dried tofu, the folk will be this sun-dried tofu, it is called "Lahai tofu".
6. Lapa Noodle
Lapa Noodle, that is, Lapa Festival seasonal food. Traditional noodles, popular in the Guanzhong area of Shaanxi Province, in the Chengcheng area around the north of Shaanxi Province, Lahai Festival is generally not to drink porridge, every year on the morning of the eighth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, every family will eat a bowl of Lahai noodles.
7. wheat rice
Xining Lunar New Year's Day does not drink congee, but to eat wheat rice. On the seventh night of the first day of the lunar month will be newly crushed wheat kernels, and beef and mutton with cooking, plus green salt, ginger, pepper, fruits, Miao incense and other condiments, after a night of simmering fire.