Origin: First, to expel evil spirits. Legend has it that in ancient times there were evil spirits that specialized in coming out to frighten children. In ancient times, people were generally afraid of ghosts and gods, and believed that adults and children had strokes and got sick and were in bad health because of the evil spirits. These evil spirits are not afraid of the earth, afraid of red (red) beans, so there is a "red beans to beat the ghosts," said. Therefore, on the eighth day of the waxing moon to red small beans, red small beans porridge, in order to get rid of the epidemic to welcome the good luck; Second, the waxing moon festival is also called the Buddha into the Taoist festival, according to legend, Buddha Shakyamuni is in this day into the Buddha. Buddha originally practiced in the mountains, meditate for six years, starving bones as thin as wood, is ready to give up, coincidentally ran into a shepherdess, sent him food, he ate sitting cross-legged under the Bodhi, in the eighth day of December finally realized the way to become a Buddha; Third, Laha Festival is to commemorate Yue Fei, when Yue Fei against the Jin in Zhu Xianzhen, it is the winter months, the army lack of food and clothing, the people have to send congee relief, the Yue family army sat down to eat a meal of porridge, and the result was a great victory. The result is a great victory, this day is the eighth day of the Lunar New Year. People in order to commemorate Yue Fei, every Lunar New Year's Day on the eighth to miscellaneous beans and fruits to cook porridge, and eventually became a folk custom.

The Laha Festival customs: one, Laha congee. Laha congee has many ingredients, in addition to white rice, people will be red dates, lotus seeds, walnuts, chestnuts, cinnamon, grapes, red beans, peanuts and other no less than 20 in the raw materials soaked in advance, in the second slowly boiled into a sweet and savory Laha congee. Ancient people due to living conditions, food is more scarce, can drink Laha congee, at that time is a very happy and looking forward to things. Second, Laha garlic. Soak Lahai garlic is a custom in the north, especially in northern China, everyone in the first eight days of Lunar New Year to soak garlic, and Lahai garlic practice is simple, put the peeled garlic cloves into a sealed jar, soak vinegar can be. Third, Lahua noodles. Shaanxi Guanzhong region is popular to eat Laha noodles, Laha noodles to noodles and a variety of beans as raw materials, noodles need to be made into leek leaf noodles standby, beans soak one night in advance, Laha this day used to simmer soup. At the same time cooked oil will be onion burst incense, after the noodles cooked onion oil splashed into the pot, that is, the production of completed Laha noodles. Four, Lapa tofu. "Laha tofu" is a folk specialty of Qianxian County, Anhui Province. Before and after Laha, every household in Qianxian County has to make tofu in the sun, and the people call this natural sun-dried tofu "Laha tofu". Five, cooking "five beans". Some places over the congee, not called "congee", but called cooking "five beans", some cooked on the day of Lahai, some in the first five months of Lahai on the cooking, but also pinch some "bird's head" with the noodles, and rice, beans (beans), and the "five beans", and the "five beans". and rice, beans (five kinds of beans) with cooking. It is said that people ate on the eighth day of the month, the next year does not jeopardize the crops. Cooked this "five beans", in addition to their own food, but also to neighbors. Every day at dinner to get hot with food, eat until the twenty-third of Lunar New Year, symbolizing the surplus for years to come.

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