Laiba Tofu is one of the traditional snacks in Yixian County, Anhui Province, which is the local food for the Lunar New Year's Day.

At the beginning of the eighth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, every family will be sun-dried tofu, the folk will be the sun-dried tofu, called "Lahai tofu", its color yellow and moist as jade, soft in the mouth, salty and sweet, fragrant and fresh, if you add shrimp and other ingredients in the sun-dried, the taste is more fresh and tasty.

When it comes to this Lahai tofu, some say it is made on Lahai Festival, so it is called "Lahai", and some say that in fact, it has nothing to do with Lahai Festival, but it is from a coincidence in a legend. It is said that in ancient times, a couple lived a life of love, the man went out to do business, the woman at home to do women's red. One day, the wife, who had just bought tofu and was ready to go home to cook, received an invitation from a distant relative to help make a wedding dress. This wife left in a hurry, before leaving Do not put the tofu on the stone mill in front of the door, the results of this go two or three months before returning home.

Customs of the Lahai Festival:

1, eat Lahai tofu

Lahai tofu is Anhui Qianxian folk flavor specialties, in the Lahai on the eve of the Spring Festival, that is, before and after the eighth day of the twelfth month of the Lunar Calendar, Qianxian families have to sun tanning bean curd, the folk will be the natural sun tanning of tofu, known as the "Lahai The folk call this naturally sun-dried tofu "Laha tofu".

2, eat Laha garlic

Purple garlic 1000 grams, 500 grams of rice vinegar, 400 grams of sugar. Choose a clean utensil, as a container to soak Lahai garlic; choose a good garlic, peeled and washed, dried, first soaked into the vinegar, and then add sugar, mix well, placed in the conditions of 10 degrees ~ 15 degrees, soak for 10 days into.

3, eat Lapa beans

Lapa beans is one of China's Hunan Province, one of the traditional food, has a history of hundreds of years, the folk more in the winter each year after the start of pickling, to the eighth day of the month of Lunar New Year to eat, so it is called "Lapa beans".

4, eat Lapa congee

Lapa congee, as the name suggests, is a porridge with eight materials, but according to different regions, the raw materials vary greatly. Generally speaking, rice, glutinous rice, peanuts, red dates and lotus seeds are essential.