The main content of Bing Xin's Laba porridge is based on Laba porridge, which contains the feelings of the younger generation for their ancestors. It can be divided into three sections: the first section 1-3 is the first section: Bing Xin's mother cooks laba porridge for her children every year to commemorate her grandmother. The fourth natural paragraph is the second paragraph: Bing Xin cooks laba porridge for the children every year in memory of his mother. Paragraph 5-7 is the third paragraph: Bing Xin's third-generation children are also cooking Laba porridge to commemorate Premier Zhou.
As long as I can remember, I remember that my mother cooked Laba porridge for us on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month every year.
This Laba porridge is cooked with glutinous rice, brown sugar and eighteen kinds of dried fruits.
Among the dried fruits, the big ones are red dates, longan, walnuts, ginkgo, almonds, chestnuts, peanuts, raisins, etc., and the small ones are all kinds of beans and sesame seeds, which are very sweet and delicious. Mother cooks a big pot every year, which is not only eaten by the whole family, but also distributed to neighbors and relatives.
Mother said: This Laba porridge was originally cooked by the Buddhist temple to offer sacrifices to the Buddha-eighteen kinds of dried fruits symbolize eighteen arhats, and later this custom became popular among the people, because it is also a good way to save money by taking this opportunity to clean the kitchen cabinets and cook these leftover miscellaneous fruits for children. Finally, she sighed and said, "My mother died on Laba, when I was only fourteen years old. After I fell on her body and cried bitterly, I hurried to the kitchen to make breakfast for my father and brother. I also saw a small pot of Laba porridge cooked by her yesterday on the stove. Now I still cook this Laba porridge every year, not for the sake of offering Buddha, but in memory of my mother. "
My mother died on January 7, 1930, which happened to be the Laba of the lunar calendar! At that time, I had my own home. In memory of my mother, I also cooked Laba porridge on this day every year. Although I can't make up eighteen kinds of dried fruits, children still love them. After the Anti-Japanese War, we migrated north and south, and sometimes we were still abroad, especially in the last ten years. We almost didn't even have a "home", so we forgot the day of Laba.
On the morning of Laba this year, I happened to see my third-generation children around the table, washing red dates and peeling peanuts. When they saw me coming, they all looked up and said, "Grandma, let's cook Laba porridge every year! Mom says this Laba porridge is delicious. You used to cook it every year. " I smiled, thinking that these children are really greedy. I said, "That was when your mothers were young. During the Anti-Japanese War, it was rare to eat sweets, and eating Laba porridge became a grand ceremony. Why are you still looking for this trouble? "
They looked at each other and bowed their heads. A child said softly:
"Mom and menstruation said that your mother cooked Laba porridge every year in memory of her mother, and you cooked Laba porridge every year in memory of your mother. Now we are going to cook Laba porridge every year in memory of our beloved Premier Zhou and Grandpa Zhou! These red dates, peanuts, chestnuts and all kinds of beans we can gather together do not represent the eighteen arhats, but symbolize the young people in China who are ready to embark on various fronts in our generation. Everyone is closely, harmoniously and sweetly United. "He took out a small piece of neatly folded calendar paper from his pocket and printed the words" December 8 of the first year of the lunar calendar "on the bottom of January 8, 1976. He put this little piece of paper in front of me and said, "You see, this is what my mother kept. Grandpa Zhou's birthday is Laba! "
I didn't say anything, but bowed my head and peeled peanuts with them.
In the early morning of February 3, 1979