Whenever it comes to the Lapa Festival is really their favorite festival , in this day at noon, not only can eat Lapa congee, but also ate their favorite sheep soup noodles, when I was a child, I felt it is a very happy thing, and the next day is also a very good holiday, the next day is their birthday, really every day is a happy day, so what are the origins and customs? The next day is his birthday, really every day is a happy day, so what is the origin and customs of Lahai Festival?
The origin of Lapa Festival
Lapa Festival, commonly known as Lapa, refers to the day of the eighth day of the lunar month (December).
In China, there is the traditional custom of drinking Lapa congee and soaking Lapa garlic on Lapa Day, and in Henan and other places, Lapa congee is also known as everyone's rice. It is a festive food custom in honor of national hero Yue Fei.
Traditional customs of Lahai Festival
1. Lahai congee
Lahai this day there is the custom of drinking Lahai congee, Lahai congee is also known as the seven treasures of five flavors of porridge. The history of drinking Laha congee in China has been more than 1,000 years. The earliest began in the Song Dynasty, every Lahai this day, whether it is the court, the government, the temple or the people's home to do Lahai congee. In the Qing Dynasty, the custom of drinking Laha 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, attendants courtesans to give Lahai congee, and to the various monasteries to distribute rice, fruit, etc. for monks to eat.
After the Laha congee is boiled, it should first be honored to the gods and ancestors. After that, it can be given to friends and relatives, and must be sent out before noon. Finally, it is eaten by the whole family. The leftover Lapa congee, saved to eat a few days there are still left, but it is a very good omen, take its meaning of the yearly surplus. If you give the porridge to the poor people to eat, it is more for their own virtue.
2. Lahai garlic
Most regions in northern China on the eighth day of the first month of the traditional custom of vinegar soaked garlic, called Lahai garlic. Bubbling Lahai garlic is a custom in northern China. Lahai ten days later, just the time of the Spring Festival, due to the vinegar soaked, the garlic as a whole is turquoise, very nice, and the vinegar also has a spicy flavor of garlic. On New Year's Eve, around the time of the Spring Festival, eat dumplings and salad with Laha garlic and vinegar, the flavor will be very beautiful.
3. Lahai tofu
Lahai tofu is an Lahai tofu emblem Qianxian folk flavor specialties, in the Lahai on the eve of the Spring Festival, that is, around the eighth day of the twelfth month of the Lunar Calendar, Qianxian households have to sun tanning tofu, and the folk will be this natural sun tanning of tofu known as Lahai tofu.
4. Lapa Noodle
Lapa Noodle Square in northern China, some of the places that do not produce or less rice, people do not eat Lapa congee, but to eat Lapa Noodle. Every other day with a variety of fruits and vegetables into a bashful, the noodles rolled out, to the Lunar New Year's morning of the eighth when the whole family gathered around to eat Lunar New Year's noodles.