Many young people don't know the date of Laba now. Only some older people still have certain plots about Laba. Traditionally, Laba beans and Laba garlic are cooked on Laba. This custom has a history of hundreds of years. Laba beans and Laba garlic produced on Laba Day have their special fragrance, which is very popular with people and the production method is simple.

production method of laba bean

raw materials: soybean, salt, pepper and ginger.

Laba bean

Laba bean method:

(1) Wash the soybeans, skim off the empty skin and residual particles, soak them in cold water, take them out, add water to the pot (boiling water should cover the soybeans by one inch), cook them with high fire first, and then cook them with low fire.

(2) Take the beans out of the water (put some salt in the boiled bean water and store them for later use), spread them and put them in a cloth bag.

(3) Put the cloth bag in a straw bag or other container, wrap it with straw or cotton wool and keep it warm, and place it at about 2 degrees Celsius. After about 2-3 days, the soybeans are hot, white mold grows by fermentation, and it is taken out and cooled;

(4) Then put the beans in a pot (pottery basin) and add the original bean boiling water; Add the right amount of ingredients, add 5 grams of salt and 2 yuan of pepper per catty of soybeans, add the right amount of fresh ginger, and add 5 yuan of Chili powder for those who like spicy food and mix well together; If the salty taste is not enough when mixing, you can add some salt, and finally add some white wine and mix well.

(5) Take a jar, wipe the jar with white wine, put the well-mixed bean materials into the jar, seal the jar mouth, and eat after 1 days. Laba beans can be served with a variety of dishes, such as steaming, boiling and frying. Vegetarian methods are delicious with meals.

the origin of laba

the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month (the twelfth lunar month is called the twelfth lunar month) is the traditional laba festival of Han people in China, and it is the custom to eat laba porridge in most parts of China on this day. Laba porridge is cooked with eight kinds of fresh grain and fruits harvested in the same year, which are generally sweet porridge.

Originally, in ancient times, people celebrated the harvest and thanked ancestors and gods (including door gods, household gods, house gods, kitchen gods and well gods), in addition to the activities of worshipping ancestors and worshipping gods, people also had to chase away epidemics. This activity originated from Nuo in ancient times (the ritual of exorcising ghosts and avoiding epidemics in ancient times). One of the medical methods in prehistoric times was to exorcise ghosts and cure diseases. As a witchcraft activity, the custom of beating drums to drive away epidemics in the twelfth lunar month still exists in Xinhua and other areas in Hunan Province. Later, it evolved into a religious festival to commemorate Buddha Sakyamuni's enlightenment. In the Xia Dynasty, La Ri was called "Jiaping", in the Shang Dynasty, "Qing Si" and in the Zhou Dynasty, "Da Wax". Because it is held in December, it is called the twelfth lunar month, and La Worship is called the twelfth lunar month. The twelfth lunar month in the pre-Qin period was on the third day after the winter solstice, and it was fixed on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month in the Southern and Northern Dynasties.