In the twelfth month of the lunar calendar, it is customarily called the "Lunar New Year". It is said that after the unification of China by Emperor Qin Shi Huang, he ordered that December be renamed "Lunar New Year". And the word "La" officially appeared only in the Han Dynasty.
The reason for the lunar December called "waxing month": "Sacrifice Records" explained above: "Waxing, Suo also, the year December, gathered all things and Suo entertained also." "Wax" is similar to "wax". Sacrifices to ancestors are called "wax", and sacrifices to all gods are called "wax". The "wax" and "wax" are a kind of sacrificial activities, and more in the lunar calendar in December, people will be December called the month of wax.
Lunar New Year is the end of the year, the ancient idle people have nothing to do, they go out hunting. One is to get more food to make up for the lack of food, and the other is to use the beasts to sacrifice to the gods, pray for blessings, avoid disasters and welcome good luck.
There are many folk customs in Lunar New Year. On the eighth day of the twelfth month, "Lapa congee" is made of mixed grains. Some farmers will also be "Lapa congee" flung sprinkled in the door, fence, firewood altar, etc., in order to sacrifice to the gods of the grains. December 23, commonly known as the "small year", some areas of the people set up incense and wax knife head and sugar points and fruits for the "stove god" and so on. In fact, most people now do not believe in "gods" and so on, this is just inherited some of the customs of ancient times, or to add interest.
La Ba congee allusion
Speaking of La Ba Festival may not be unfamiliar to everyone, if it is to speak of the origin of La Ba Festival know only a few people.
Allusion to a
Legend has it that in ancient India in the north, that is, today's southern Nepal, the state of Gaviravai there is a Jinyan King, he had a son named Jodama Siddhartha, young, pain in the world of life, old age, illness, death of all kinds of suffering, found that the social life is futile and futile, and Brahmanism is extremely dissatisfied with the divine right, so, at the age of 29 years old, give up the luxury of the life of the king, and learn to practise yoga. So, at the age of 29, he gave up the luxurious life of the royal family and became a monk, practicing yoga and asceticism for 6 years. About 525 B.C., one day, under a Bodhi tree in Buddha Gaya, he realized his enlightenment and founded Buddhism. History has it that this day is the eighth day of the twelfth month of the Chinese lunar calendar, because he is a Sakya, and later Buddhists honored him as Siddhartha Gautama, that is, the Sakya saint of the meaning of the word.
It is said that before Sakyamuni became a Buddha, he had been practicing austerity for many years, and was so hungry and thin that he decided to stop practicing austerity. At that time, he met a shepherd girl who gave him milk and rice to eat. He ate the milk and regained his strength, then sat under the Bodhi tree and became a monk on December 8th. In the summer calendar, December is the month of Lunar New Year, so December 8 is called Lunar New Year's Day. In the Han Chinese region, this day is regarded as Siddhartha Gautama's initiation day, so Laha became a Buddhist festival. After the introduction of Buddhism into our country, all over the construction of monasteries, cooking congee to honor the Buddha's activities also prevailed, especially to the eighth day of the eighth month of the waxing moon, the sacrifice of Sakyamuni's practice of the day of the path of enlightenment, the monasteries are to be held in chanting, and follow the example of the Buddha before the shepherdess to offer the legend of the story of the Milk Mee, with the fragrance of the grain and fruits and so on, making congee for the Buddha, known as the Laha congee. This is the origin of Laha congee. The Baizhang Qing Rule says: "On the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, on the anniversary of the attainment of enlightenment of our master, Monk Shakya Rulai, the bhikkhu congregation was led to prepare incense, flowers, lamps, candles, tea, fruits, treasures and shyness, in order to apply for offerings." The temple held a chanting on this day,
Allusion two
It is said that the Ming dynasty ancestor Zhu Yuanzhang childhood family is very poor, then to a rich man cattle. One day when he was crossing a wooden bridge, the ox slipped and fell off the bridge, breaking his leg. The rich old man was furious and put him in a house without food. Zhu Yuanzhang hungry enough, suddenly found a rat hole in the house, peeled open a look, the original is a mouse granary, which has rice, beans, and red dates. He combined these things together and cooked a pot of porridge, which tasted very sweet and delicious. Later Zhu Yuanzhang when the emperor, and remembered this matter, then asked the Imperial Kitchen boiled a pot of various grains and beans mixed together in the porridge. The day of eating is the eighth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, so it is called Laha congee.
Allusion three
The founder of Buddhism, Siddhartha Gautama, was the son of King Jinyi of Gavilavi in the north of India (now in Nepal), who saw all beings suffering from old age, sickness and death, and was dissatisfied with the theocratic rule of the Brahmins at that time, gave up his throne, and went out to practice Buddhism. After six years of asceticism, he attained enlightenment and became a Buddha under the Bodhi tree on the eighth day of the waxing moon. During these six years of asceticism, he ate only one flax and one rice a day. The descendants did not forget his suffering and ate porridge on the eighth day of the Lunar New Year every year to commemorate him. "The eighth day of the eighth month of the Lunar New Year has become the "anniversary of the Buddha's enlightenment". "Lapa" is a grand festival of Buddhism. Before the liberation of all over the Buddhist temple for bathing will be, held chanting, and follow the example of Sakyamuni before he became a Taoist, shepherdesses offer the legendary story of milk, with fragrant grain, fruit and other congee for the Buddha, said "Lahai congee". And Laha congee will be given to the disciples and the good men and women, and then in the folk custom. It is said that in some monasteries, before the eighth day of the eighth month of the Lunar New Year, the monks holding the bowl, along the streets, will collect rice, chestnuts, dates, nuts and other materials into Laha congee distributed to the poor. Legend has it that after eating it, they can get the blessing of Buddha, so the poor people call it "Buddha congee". Lu You of the Southern Song Dynasty wrote a poem: "The Buddha's congee is given to each other today, and the festival in the village of Jiangcun is new." It is said that the famous Hangzhou Tianning Temple has a storage of leftovers "stacks of rice building", usually the temple monks every day to the leftovers of the sun, the accumulation of a year's surplus food, to the eighth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar into Lapa congee distributed to the believers, known as "longevity congee" "Fude congee", which means that eating it is called "Buddha porridge" by poor people. It is called "Fukushou congee" and "Fude congee", which means that after eating it, one can increase one's happiness and longevity. Visible at that time the monks of the temple to cherish the virtues of food.
Lapa Festival customs
As early as the Song Dynasty, every December 8th, Kaifeng, Tokyo, the major temples to send seven treasures and five flavors of congee, that is, "Lapa congee". Song Dynasty Meng Yuan Lao "Tokyo Meng Hua Records" records, the eighth day of December, "the big temples for the Buddha will be, and send seven treasures and five flavors of congee with the disciples, known as the" Laha congee ". People are also the day of each family to fruit and miscellaneous materials to cook congee and eat also. Also known as "Buddha porridge". Lu You, a great poet of the Song Dynasty, said in a poem: "This day, Buddha congee more feed each other, and realize that the Jiangcun festival is new." It is also said that the congee is sent on the 8th day of the 12th lunar month.
Lapa congee is not only for the monks to enjoy, folk are also very popular. Yuan, Ming, Qing Dynasty inherited this food custom, the most popular in the Qing Dynasty. There is a poem: "family Lahai cooking double bow, hazelnut peach kernel coloring red. I am happy that my favorite child meets the premier, and I will always talk about Buddha's blessing." Zhou Mi, "Wulin old story" said: "eight days, the temple and people with walnuts, pine nuts, milk mushrooms, persimmons, chestnuts and so on for congee, called 'congee on the eighth day of the month'." The Qing dynasty rich tsun chung in "yanjing yearly record - laha congee" said: "laha congee, with yellow rice, white rice, river rice, millet, rhododendron rice, chestnuts, red cowpeas, peeled jujube puree, etc., boiled in water, outside the use of dyed red peach kernels, almonds, melon seeds, peanuts, hazelnut, pine nuts, and sugar, brown sugar, Zuo Zuo grapes, to point color." , quite characteristic of the capital. Yuan Sun Guozhi made "Yandu Tourism Zhi" cloud: "December 8, to give officials porridge, rice and fruit mixed into it. Pin more for the winner, this cover follows the story of the Song Dynasty." As a folk custom, December 8 of the summer calendar to eat Lapa congee to celebrate the harvest, has been passed down to the present day.
In addition to the activities of Lapa Festival to honor the gods, people have to expel the epidemic. This activity comes from the ancient exorcism (ancient rituals to drive away ghosts and epidemics) - one of the prehistoric medical methods, that is, to drive away ghosts to cure diseases. As sorcery activities in the waxing moon drums to drive away the epidemic of custom, today in Hunan Xinhua and other areas still have survived.
"Lapa" is a grand festival of Buddhism. Before the liberation of all over the Buddhist temple for the bathing will be held chanting, and follow the example of Sakyamuni before he became a Taoist, the shepherdess to offer the legendary story of the milk, with incense, fruits and other congee for the Buddha, said "Lahai congee". And Laha congee will be given to the disciples and the good men and women, and then it will be in the folk custom. It is said that in some monasteries, before the eighth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, the monks hold the bowl and go along the streets to collect rice, chestnuts, jujubes, nuts and other materials to be cooked into Laha congee and distribute it to the poor. Legend has it that after eating it, they can get the blessing of Buddha, so the poor people call it "Buddha congee". Lu You of the Southern Song Dynasty wrote in his poem: "The Buddha congee is given to each other this day, and the festival in the river village is new." It is said that the famous Hangzhou Tianning Temple has a storage of leftovers in the "stacks of rice building," usually the temple monks daily leftovers dried in the sun, the accumulation of a year's surplus, to the eighth day of the eighth month of the Lunar New Year into Laha congee distributed to believers, known as "Fukushou congee" "Fude congee "It means that after eating it, you can increase your happiness and longevity. Visible at that time, the monks of the temple love the virtues of food.
Song Dynasty, Wu Zimu wrote "Dream sorghum record" Volume VI: "eight days, the temple is called 'Lapa'. Dasha Temple and other five-flavored porridge, called 'Laha congee'." At this time, the congee has become a folk custom, however, the emperor at the time also used to enlist the ministers. The Yongle Grand Dictionary recorded "is the eighth day of the month, the Zen family called the eighth day, cooking porridge for the Buddha rice monks". To the qing dynasty, yongzheng three years (1725 AD), the emperor will be Beijing andingmen in the east of the state prison mansion into the yonghe palace, whenever the eighth day, in the palace wanfugue, etc., with pots of congee and invite lama monks chanting, and then the congee will be distributed to the ministers of the king's palace, tasting and eating in order to degree of festivity. "Guangxu Shuntianfu Zhi" and the cloud: "the eighth day of the waxing moon every year, Yonghe official congee, customized, sent ministers to monitor, cover for the meal."
Lapa congee food customs
China's history of drinking Lapa congee, has been more than a thousand years. The earliest began in the Song Dynasty. On every Lahai day, whether it is the court, the government, the temple or the people's home to do Lahai congee. In the Ming Dynasty, the ingredients were used to cook congee with river rice, white fruits, walnuts and chestnuts. By the Qing Dynasty, the custom of drinking Laba congee was even more prevalent. In the court, the emperor, the empress, the emperor's son and so on to the civil and military ministers, courtesans give Lahai congee, and to the various monasteries issued rice, fruit, etc. for the monks to eat. In the civil society, families also make Laha congee to worship ancestors; at the same time, families get together to eat together, gifts to friends and relatives. The famous Yonghegong Laha congee, in addition to the river rice, millet and other grains, but also added diced mutton and cream, congee sprinkled with red dates, cinnamon, walnuts, raisins, melon seeds, green and red silk and so on.
All over China, the pattern of Lapa congee, competing, a variety of varieties. One of the most elaborate in Beiping, mixed in the white rice in more items, such as dates, lotus seeds, walnuts, chestnuts, almonds, pine nuts, cinnamon, hazelnuts, grapes, white fruits, rhododendron, green silk, roses, red beans, peanuts, ...... total of no less than twenty kinds. People in the evening of the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, began to busy, washing rice, soaking fruit, plucking the skin, removing the kernel, fine picking. Then in the middle of the night to start cooking, and then stewed with a slight fire, stewed until the next morning, Laha congee is considered to be simmering well. More sophisticated people, but also the first fruit carved into human figures, animals, patterns, and then placed in the pot to cook. A special feature is to put a fruit lion in the congee. Fruit lion is made of several kinds of fruit lion-shaped objects, with picking out the pits of jujube roasted dry crisp jujube as the lion body, half of the walnut kernel as the lion's head, peach kernel as the lion's feet, sweet almonds are used for the lion's tail. The sweet almonds are used as the lion's tail. Then they are stuck together with sugar and placed in a bowl of congee, resembling a small lion. If the bowl is bigger, you can put double lions or four small lions. The more elaborate ones are made of date paste, bean paste, yam, hawthorn cake, and other foods with various colors, and are pinched into the figures of the Eight Immortals, the Longevity Star, and the Lohan. This kind of decorated Laha congee can only be seen on the offering table of big temples in the past. After the congee has been boiled, it should first be offered to the gods and ancestors. After that, it is to be presented to friends and relatives and must be sent out before noon. Finally it is eaten by the whole family. The leftover Laha congee, which is kept for a few days and still has leftovers, is a good omen, taking its meaning of having more than enough for each year. If you give the porridge to the poor people to eat, it is more for their own virtue. Laha congee in folklore and witchcraft. If there are flowers and fruit trees planted in the yard, some Laha congee should be smeared on the branches and trunks, believing that there will be more fruits in the coming year. On this day, in addition to offering ancestors to honor the gods, there are also mourning the dead country, send condolences.
Lapa congee in ancient times was cooked with red small beans, glutinous rice, and then the material gradually increased. So far, the people in the south, northeast and northwest of China still retain the custom of eating Lapa congee, which is not common in Guangdong. The materials used vary, mostly with glutinous rice, red beans, dates, chestnuts, peanuts, white fruit, lotus seeds, lilies and other sweet porridge. There are also added cinnamon, longan meat, candied fruit and other cooking. In winter, eat a bowl of steaming congee, both delicious and nutritious, can indeed increase the blessing of life.
Tianjin people cook congee on the eighth day, similar to Beijing, more sophisticated, but also to add lotus seeds, lilies, pearl rice, Italian rice, barley kernels, sticky Panicum, sticky yellow rice, kidney beans, green beans, cinnamon meat, longan meat, white fruits, jujubes, and sugar cinnamon, color, aroma and taste are all good. In recent years, there are also added black rice. This kind of Lapa congee can be used for therapeutic purposes, with spleen, appetizer, tonic, tranquility, clear the mind, blood and other effects.
Shanxi's congee, also known as eight treasures porridge, millet-based, additional cowpeas, small beans, mung beans, jujubes, and sticky rice, rice, rice, rice, etc. Cooked. Jin Dongnan area, the first five days of the waxing moon with small beans, red beans, cowpeas, sweet potatoes, peanuts, glutinous rice, persimmon cake, water porridge, also known as sweet rice, is also one of the food customs.
On the day of Laha, in the northern Shaanxi Plateau, the porridge is cooked with a variety of dried fruits, tofu, and meat, in addition to a variety of rice and beans. Usually, it is cooked in the morning, sweet or salty, according to the taste of people to choose their own discretion. If it is eaten at lunchtime, but also in the congee cooked on some noodles, the family reunion **** meal. After eating, but also the porridge will be smeared on the door, stove and outside the door on the tree to drive away evil spirits to avoid disasters, to meet the next year's bumper crop of agriculture. Folklore, Lahai this day avoid eating vegetables, said eat vegetables, crop weeds. Southern Shaanxi people Lahai to eat mixed porridge, divided into "five flavors" and "eight flavors" two kinds. The former with rice, glutinous rice, peanuts, white fruit, beans cooked. The latter with the above five ingredients in addition to adding diced meat, tofu, radish, in addition to add flavorings. In addition to eating Lapa congee on this day, people also have to use the congee to worship ancestors and granaries.
Gansu people traditionally cooked Laha congee with grains, vegetables, cooked in addition to family members to eat, but also sent to the neighbors, but also used to feed livestock. In Lanzhou, Baiyin urban areas, Laha congee cooked very carefully, with rice, beans, jujubes, white fruit, lotus seeds, raisins, dried apricots, dried gourds, walnuts, green and red silk, sugar, diced meat and other boiled. After cooking, it is first used to honor the gods of door, stove, earth and wealth, praying for good weather and good harvests in the coming year; then it is distributed to relatives and neighbors, and finally enjoyed by the whole family. Gansu Wuwei region to pay attention to the "vegetarian Lahai", eat rice thick rice, lentil rice or thick rice, cooked with fried loose seeds, sesame flowers with food, folklore called it "lentil congee bubble loose".
Ningxia people do Lahai rice generally lentils, soybeans, red beans, fava beans, black beans, rice, potatoes, porridge, plus wheat flour or buckwheat noodles cut into rhombic willow leaf blade "wheat spike", or made into a small round egg "bird's head", before leaving the pot. Before serving, it is fried with green onion oil. The family only ate Laha rice, not food.
Xining people in Qinghai, although the majority of Han Chinese, but Lahai do not eat congee, but to eat wheat kernel rice. Will be newly crushed wheat kernels, and beef and mutton with cooking, plus green salt, ginger, pepper, fruits, seedling incense and other condiments, after a night of simmering fire, meat, wheat mingled into a creamy, early in the morning, uncovering the pot, the aroma of the nose, eat delicious.
In Shandong, "Kongfu food system", the provisions of the "Lapa congee" in two kinds, one is with Italian rice kernels, cinnamon, lotus seeds, lily, chestnuts, jujubes, round-grained rice, etc. boiled, into a bowl and also add some "congee fruit! ", mainly carved into various shapes of fruits, is a garnish. This kind of porridge is exclusively for the master of the Confucius House and the master of the twelve houses to eat. Another is cooked with rice, meat, cabbage, tofu, etc., is to the Confucius House when they drink.
The people of Henan eat Laha rice, millet, green beans, cowpeas, wheat, peanuts, jujubes, corn and other eight raw materials with the boiled, cooked with some brown sugar, walnuts, porridge, thick flavor, a metaphor for the coming year of the five grain abundance.
Jiangsu region to eat Laha congee sweet and salty two, the same cooking method. Only the salty porridge is to add vegetables and oil. Suzhou people cook Laha congee with mushrooms, water chestnuts, walnuts, pine nuts, fructus gravy, jujubes, chestnuts, fungus, bok choy, enoki mushrooms and so on. Li Fu, a Suzhou literati in the Qing Dynasty, once wrote a poem: "The congee on the eighth day of the Lunar New Year is passed down from the kingdom of Van, the seven treasures are beautifully blended, and the five flavors are fragrantly mixed in."
Zhejiang people Cooking congee on the eighth day of the month generally use walnuts, pine nuts, fructus, lotus seeds, jujubes, cinnamon meat, lychee meat, etc., sweet and flavorful, eat to pray for a long life. It is said that this method of cooking porridge is passed down from Nanjing, which contains a number of legends.
Sichuan is a large number of people, Lapa congee practice a variety of sweet, salty and spicy, while rural people eat more savory, mainly with soybeans, peanuts, diced meat, white radish, carrot boiled into. Strangers come here to taste, although into the local customs, but it is difficult to get used to, nowadays city people eat sweet porridge is also a lot of, can be called different flavors. Lapa and porridge can be said to be closely related to the porridge to drink in Lapa, is also considered to drink out of the pattern, drink out of the level.
[Edit paragraph] Lahai food
Lahai tofu
"Lahai tofu" is Anhui Qianxian folk flavor specialties, in the Spring Festival on the eve of the Lahai, that is, before and after the eighth day of the twelfth month of the Lunar Calendar, Qianxian households have to sun tanning tofu, the folk will be this natural sun tanning tofu called "Lahai tofu", "Lahai tofu", "Lahai tofu", "Lahai tofu", "Lahai tofu" and "Lahai tofu". "The first thing you need to do is to make sure that you have a good understanding of what you are doing and how you are doing it.
Jade Jasper Lahai Garlic
Soaking Lahai garlic is a custom in the north, especially in northern China. As the name suggests, it is to soak the garlic on the eighth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar. In fact, the material is very simple, is vinegar and garlic cloves. The practice is also extremely simple, the peeled garlic cloves into a can, bottle or other containers can be sealed inside, and then poured into the vinegar, seal the mouth to a cold place. Slowly, soaked in vinegar garlic will become green, and finally will become a body turquoise, as jade jasper.
Cook "five beans"
Some places over the Lahai porridge, not called "Lahai porridge", but called cooking "five beans", some cooked on the day of Lahai, some cooked on the fifth day of the month of Lahai. On the fifth day of the first month of Lunar New Year, we also need to pinch some "bird's head", and rice, beans (five kinds of beans) with the cooking. It is said that people ate "sparrow head" on the eighth day of the month, sparrow headache, the next year does not harm the crops. The "five beans" were cooked, and in addition to self-consumption, they were also given to relatives and 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.
Lapa noodle
Some places in the north of China do not produce or less rice, people do not eat Lapa congee, but to eat Lapa noodles. Every other day with a variety of fruits and vegetables into a bashful, the noodles rolled out, to the eighth morning of the first day of the month of Lunar New Year, the whole family to eat Lunar New Year's noodles.
[edit]Laha congee production
Ingredients
50 grams of rice, 50 grams of yellow millet, 50 grams of sticky yellow rice, 50 grams of glutinous rice, glutinous rice 50 grams of Panicum (sticky sorghum rice) 50 grams of red soybeans 100 grams of 100 grams of lotus seeds, 100 grams of cinnamon
100 grams of peanuts, 100 grams of chestnuts, 100 grams of red jujubes, sugar, appropriate amount.
Preparation method
1, first of all, the lotus seed to coat the heart into the bowl with water submerged, and then into the steamer, with a high fire steam about 1 hour, steamed out of standby.
2, will be removed from the cinnamon skin, core, as long as the meat; will be peeled off the chestnut shell and coat.
3, the pot into the appropriate amount of water, and then Panicum, red beans, peanut rice, small red dates cleaned and poured into the pot to cook, to be cooked into a half-cooked, and then rice, yellow millet, sticky yellow rice, sticky rice, cleaned and poured into the pot to cook, to be open, and then cook with a slight fire. The porridge will be boiled and simmered to seven or eight mature, the steamed lotus seeds poured into the porridge and stirred well, after the pot was opened and then cooked for a while to move down the fire, served in a clean sterilized pot, sprinkled with sugar. Nowadays, there is a supermarket with good congee ingredients, but you can also according to their own dietary habits and physical condition of the choice of congee ingredients, boiled out of the congee will be unique.
[Edit Paragraph]Nutrition of Laha congee
The Chinese people love Laha congee, food customs, but also some scientific reasons. Qing Dynasty nutritionist Cao Yanshan wrote "porridge spectrum", the fitness and nutritional function of Laha congee exhaustive, clear, regulate nutrition, easy to absorb, is "therapeutic" good, and stomach, tonic spleen, nourish the heart, clear the lungs, benefit the kidneys, liver, thirst, eyesight, bowel movement, tranquility of the role of the spirit. These have been confirmed by modern medicine. For the elderly, Laha congee is also beneficial food, but should also pay attention to should not drink more. In fact, not only Lahai, plain porridge, the elderly is also very beneficial. The variety of porridge is also quite a lot, can be different from person to person, according to the need to choose, discretionary consumption.
"Lahai congee" is the main raw material for cereals, commonly used japonica rice, glutinous rice and barley. Japonica rice contains protein, fat, carbohydrates, calcium, phosphorus, iron and other ingredients, has a tonic gas, nourish the spleen and stomach, and the five viscera, in addition to annoyance, thirst, and benefit the function of essence. Glutinous rice has the effect of warming the spleen and benefiting the qi, suitable for those who have low function of the spleen and stomach to eat, for the deficiency of cold and discharge, deficiency of thirst, urination, etc. has a certain auxiliary therapeutic effect. Chinese medicine believes that Job's tears have the function of strengthening the spleen, tonifying the lungs, clearing away heat and dampness, often eaten on chronic enteritis, dyspepsia and other diseases also have a good effect. Dietary fiber-rich barley has the effect of preventing high blood pressure, hypertension, stroke and cardiovascular disease.
Beans are "Lapa congee" ingredients, commonly used soybeans, red beans. Soybean protein, fat, carbohydrates, crude fiber, calcium, phosphorus, iron, carotene, thiamin, riboflavin, niacin, etc., very nutritious, and has a lower blood cholesterol, prevention of cardiovascular disease, inhibition of a variety of malignant tumors, prevention of osteoporosis and a variety of health care functions. Red beans contain protein, fat, carbohydrates, crude fiber, calcium, phosphorus, iron, thiamin, riboflavin, niacin, etc., Chinese medicine believes that this product has the spleen, dry wet, water and swelling of the function of the spleen and diarrhea as well as edema have a certain auxiliary therapeutic effect.
Do not underestimate the therapeutic effect of "Lapa congee" in the nuts, peanuts and walnuts are indispensable ingredients. Peanuts have a "long life fruit" reputation, with moisturizing lungs, and stomach, cough, diuretic, breast and many other functions. Walnut kernel has a tonic kidney gas, wisdom and brain, the role of strong bones, but also be able to enhance appetite, beard hair, walnut kernel contains vitamin E is recognized by the medical profession of anti-aging drugs.
If you add lamb, dog meat, chicken, etc. in the "Lapa congee", it is more so that Lapa congee nutritional and tonic value multiplied. For patients with high blood pressure, may wish to add some white radish, celery in the congee, for patients with frequent insomnia, if the congee with some longan meat, jujube nuts will play a very good role in nourishing the heart and tranquility of the mind, He Shouwu, goji berries have the effect of prolonging the life of the blood lipids have an auxiliary role in regulating the diet of the elderly. Oats have the effect of reducing blood cholesterol concentration, consumption of oats can slow down the rise of blood glucose value, add oats in carbohydrate food can inhibit the rise of blood glucose value, so for diabetes and diabetes combined with cardiovascular disease patients, may wish to put some oats in the porridge. Dates are also a good dietary supplement to nourish the blood and strengthen the spleen, and have a certain effect on the spleen and stomach weakness, blood deficiency and coughing and lung deficiency.
Legend has it that in the north of ancient India, that is, today's southern Nepal, the state of Kabirawei, there is a king of Jinyan, he had a son named Jodama Siddhartha, young, pain in the world of life, old age, disease, death of all kinds of suffering, found that the social life of the futility, and Brahminism of the divine power is extremely dissatisfied, so, at the age of 29 years old, and give up the luxury of the royal family's life, to go out of the monastery to learn and practice yoga, austerity 6 years, about the same time, in about the same period of time, the king of the world, the king of the country, the king of the country of the world. After 6 years of asceticism, in about 525 B.C., he became enlightened and founded Buddhism under a Bodhi tree in Buddha Gaya. According to history, this day is the eighth day of the twelfth month of the Chinese lunar calendar, and because he was a Sakyamuni, Buddhists later honored him as Sakyamuni, which means Sakyamuni saint.
"Dream of Red Mansions" in the congee
Baoyu was afraid that he slept out of the disease, they coaxed him: "Aiyo! There is a big story in your Yangzhou Yamen, do you know it?" Daiyu saw him say solemn, and also the stern words, only think it is true, because asked: "What is it?" Baoyu see ask, then hold back the laughter and blurt out: "Yangzhou has a Dai Mountain. There is a forest cave on the mountain." Daiyu laughed: "is a lie, since I have not heard this mountain." Baoyu said: "There are many mountains and landscapes in the world, you don't know these. Wait for me to finish, you then criticize." Daiyu said: "You and say." Baoyu said: "There was a group of rat spirit in the forest cave. On the seventh day of the waxing moon that year. The old rat ascended to the throne to discuss. He said: 'Tomorrow is the eighth day of the lunar month, and all the people in the world make congee for the eighth day of the lunar month. Now we are short of fruits in our cave, so we must take advantage of this to rob some of them.' He drew an arrow, and sent a competent little consumptive to inquire about it. A moment later, the small consumptive returned: 'I've made inquiries everywhere, but the temple under the mountain has the most fruits and rice.' The old man asked: 'How many kinds of rice are there? How many kinds of fruits are there?' Little Consumption said: 'The rice and beans are too many to be counted. There are five kinds of fruits: one red date, two chestnuts, three peanuts, four diamonds, and five taro.' The old consumption heard the great joy, instant point consumption to go. He drew his arrow and asked: 'Who will steal the rice? A consume took the order to go and steal rice. Then he drew his arrow and asked: 'Who will steal the beans? Another one took the order to steal beans. Then one by one, they all took the order to go. There was only one kind of taro left, so he drew his arrow and asked, 'Who will steal the taro? I saw a very small and weak little consume answered: 'I would like to steal the taro.' The old consume and all consume see him like this, fear that he is not skillful, and cowardly, all forbid him to go. The young one said: 'Although I am young and weak, I have boundless magic skills, eloquent speech and far-reaching plans. I'm more skillful than they are in stealing.' The crowd asked: 'How can I be more skillful than them?' The small consumption said: 'I do not learn from them to steal straight, I only shake the body to change, also become a taro, rolled in the pile of taro, so that people can not see, can not hear, but secretly use the split method of transportation, gradually carry all. Is not it more skillful than stealing hard?'' When the crowd heard this, they all said: 'Wonderful, but I don't know how to change the method. Hearing this, the little consumptive laughed and said: 'This is not difficult, wait for me to change it.' After saying this, he shook his body and said 'change', and turned into a most beautiful lady. The crowd laughed and said, 'It's a mistake, it's a mistake. I said I was going to change into a fruit, but how did I change into a young lady? The small consumptive showed up and laughed: 'I say you have not seen the world, only recognize this fruit is fragrant taro, but do not know that the salt class Lin master's young lady is the real Xiangyu.'" Daiyu heard this, rolled over and climbed up, pressed Baoyu and laughed: "I've rotted your mouth! I knew you were making me up." Said, will wring the treasure jade repeatedly begged, said: "good sister, spare me, no longer dare! I smelled your fragrance, suddenly remembered this story." Daiyu laughed: "Spare cursed people, but also said it is the old story."