"Laha" this day has the custom of drinking Laha congee. In the south, northeast and northwest of China, the vast area still retains this custom, the southern part of China has been less, Taiwan and other places are almost none.
La Baigi garlic garlic word, and "count" the word homophonic, this is the family business to be together on this day, the year's income and expenditure out of the calculations, you can see the profit and loss, including foreign debt and foreign debt, are to be counted clearly on this day, "Lapa count" is This is the case. On the day of Laha, the debtor who wants to pay the debt should send a letter to the family who owes him money, and should prepare to pay back the money. There is a folk saying in Beijing: "Laha congee, Laha garlic, send a letter to the debtor; the debtor pays the money". Later, some people owed money to others, using garlic instead of the word "counting" to show taboo, avoiding the "counting" of the word "counting", in fact, owed to others, it is ultimately necessary to pay back.
Soak Lahai garlic with purple garlic and rice vinegar, garlic cloves to the old skin, immersed in rice vinegar, installed into a small altar sealed, to the Eve of the opening, garlic cloves Cham green green, garlic spicy acetic acid aroma dissolved in the nose, is to eat dumplings the best condiments, mixing gazpacho can be used, the flavor is unique. "
LaBaMian
Some places in northern China that don't produce rice or produce less rice, people don't eat LaBa congee, but LaBaMian. Every other day, they use all kinds of fruits and vegetables to make bashfulness, roll out the noodles well, and then the whole family eats Laha noodles in the morning of the eighth day of the Lunar New Year.
Eating Ice
The day before Lahai, people usually use steel pots to scoop up water and make ice, and when it comes to Lahai Festival, they take off the ice and crack the ice into pieces. It is said that the ice on this day is very magical, and that eating it will prevent you from getting a stomach ache in the following year.
La Ba Festival - Customs Sacrifices La Ba Festival Hunting Beasts for Ancestors
Ying Shao, "Customs": "Rites of Passage": "La", "Hunting," said the field to hunt for birds and animals, to sacrifice their ancestors also. Or I said: wax, also, the new and the old, so the big sacrifice to report the success also." Its origin is very early, "Rituals - Suburban Special Adoption" records: "Ijian clan began for the wax. Wax is also known as "Suo" (索), which is the term for the twelfth month of the year, when all things are gathered together for the purpose of offering food and drinks." The Records of the Grand Historian (史记-补三皇本纪), also says, "The Shennong clan of the Yan Emperor, with its first field affairs, made wax sacrifices to repay heaven and earth." Xia dynasty called the wax festival for the "Ka Ping", Yin said "clear sacrifice", Zhou said "big wax", the Han dynasty changed to "wax".
The object of sacrifice of all eight: the first Scrooge God (Shennong); Division Scrooge God (Houji); Nong Shen (field officer of God); post table border God (the beginning of the field hut, open road, delimitation of boundaries of the people); cat and tiger God; Square God (embankment), the water in the God (ditch), the insect God.
The pre-Qin wax festival day in the winter solstice after the third day of the eleventh day of the North and South Dynasties, gradually fixed in the eighth day of the month of wax. In the Tang and Song dynasties, this festival is also covered with the color of God and Buddha. Chanting commemorative, along into the festival. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the worship of God and Buddha instead of sacrificing to ancestral spirits, celebrating the harvest and driving away epidemics and avoiding disasters, and become the main activities of the Lunar New Year's Day, the worship of God mainly includes the God of the door, the God of the house, the God of the house, the God of the stove, and the God of the well.
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