Shanxi's congee, also known as eight treasures porridge, millet-based, additional cowpeas, small beans, mung beans, jujubes, and sticky rice, rice, rice, rice and other cooking. Jin Dongnan area, the fifth day of the first month of the Lunar New Year 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.
Shaanxi Plateau on the day of Lahai, porridge in addition to a variety of rice, beans, but also to add a variety of dried fruits, tofu and meat mixed into. Usually cooked in the morning, or sweet or salty, depending on the taste of the 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 to eat Lai 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 congee on the day of Lapa, people also have to use the congee to worship ancestors and granaries.
Gansu people traditionally cooked Lahai 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, Silver City area, 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 with lentils, soybeans, red beans, fava beans, black beans, rice, potatoes, porridge, plus wheat flour or buckwheat noodles cut into rhombus-shaped willow leaf blade "wheat spike", or made into a small round egg "bird head", out of the pot! Before serving, it is fried with green onion oil. The whole family eats only Laha rice on this day, not vegetables.
The Xining people of Qinghai, though mostly Han Chinese, don't eat congee on Lahai, but eat rice with wheat kernels. Will be newly milled 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" is divided into two kinds of porridge, one is with 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. The other is cooked with rice, meat, cabbage, tofu, etc., is for the Confucius House when they drink.
Henan people eat rice on the eighth day of the month, is millet, green beans, cowpeas, wheat nuts, peanuts, jujubes, maize 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 grains of abundance.
Jiangsu region to eat Lapa congee sweet and salty two, the same cooking method. Only the salty porridge is added vegetables and oil. Suzhou people cook Laha congee with mushrooms, water chestnuts, walnuts, pine nuts, 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 lunar month generally use walnut kernel, pine nut kernel, fructus cornutum, lotus seed, red dates, cinnamon meat, lychee meat, etc., sweet and savory, eat to pray for a long life. It is said that this method of cooking porridge from Nanjing, which contains a number of legends.
Sichuan is a big place. Lapa congee practice a variety of sweet, salty and spicy, while rural people eat more savory, mainly with soybeans, peanuts, diced meat, white radish, carrots boiled into. Strangers come here to taste, although into the local customs, but it is difficult to get used to, nowadays the city people eat sweet congee is also quite a lot, can be described as different flavors. Laha and porridge can be said to be closely related, and porridge to drink in Laha, is also considered to drink out of the pattern, drink out of the level. Lahai porridge production Raw materials 50 grams of rice, 50 grams of yellow millet, sticky yellow rice 50 grams, 50 grams of glutinous rice, Panicum (sticky sorghum rice) 50 grams of red beans 100 grams, 100 grams of lotus seeds, 100 grams of cinnamon 100 grams of peanuts 100 grams of chestnuts 100 grams of small red jujubes 100 grams of white sugar in moderation. Production method 1, first of all, the lotus seed to coat the heart into the bowl with water to submerge, and then into the steamer, steam with high fire for about 1 hour, steamed and removed from the standby. 2, will be removed from the 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 into the pot to cook, to be cooked into a half-cooked, and then rice, yellow millet, sticky yellow rice, sticky rice cleaned into the pot to cook, to be the pot to 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 are ingredients for Laha congee in supermarkets, but you can also choose the ingredients for Laha congee according to your own dietary habits and health condition, and the Laha congee will be unique. Nutrition of Laha congee Chinese people love Laha congee, food customs, but also really some scientific reasons. Qing Dynasty nutritionist Cao Yanshan wrote "porridge spectrum", the fitness and nutritional function of Laha congee is exhaustive, clear, regulate nutrition, easy to absorb, is a "therapeutic" good, and the stomach, tonic spleen, nourish the heart, clear the lungs, beneficial to the kidneys, the liver, thirst, eyesight, bowel movements, 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. There are many varieties of congee, which can be chosen according to the needs of each person and consumed as appropriate. "Laha 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. Job's tears rich in dietary fiber has the effect of preventing hyperlipidemia, 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 to reduce blood cholesterol, prevention of cardiovascular disease, inhibit 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 and dry dampness, diuresis and edema of the function of the spleen deficiency diarrhea, as well as edema has 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 "longevity fruit" reputation, with moistening the lungs, and stomach, cough, diuretic, under the breast and many other functions. Walnut kernel has a tonic kidney gas, brain, strong bones, but also 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 to make Lapa congee nutritional and tonic value doubled. 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 tranquillizing the mind, He Shouwu, goji berries have the effect of prolonging the life of the blood lipids also have an auxiliary role in regulating the elderly is a good therapeutic food. 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. Jujube is also a kind of beneficial qi and blood, spleen therapeutic good, on the spleen and stomach weakness, blood deficiency atrophy and lung deficiency cough and other symptoms have a certain degree of efficacy.