Previously, the pickled garlic must be selected before and after Lahai, because Lahai garlic must be in low temperature conditions to become green, and Lahai around the coldest time of the year. However, now you don't need to wait until the eighth day of the month to pickle garlic, even in the summer you can still successfully make garlic, because you can put it in the freezer in the refrigerator to pickle.

How to make garlic

Materials: garlic, rice vinegar.

How to do:

1, peel the garlic.

2, take out a clove of garlic and look at it, each clove of garlic has a root, mainly through the root to absorb the vinegar juice, and then the garlic reacts with the vinegar to turn green.

3, use a knife to cut off part of the root of the garlic clove, revealing the inner core, so that the vinaigrette can be more quickly soaked into the garlic clove.

4, in turn, all the roots of the garlic cloves are processed.

5, find a glass jar, wash and dry.

6, put all the garlic cloves in, the bottle is too big, it looks like very few garlic cloves.

7, pour rice vinegar in, submerge the garlic cloves on it.

8, take the plastic wrap or plastic bag folded a few layers, put the bottle mouth, so that when you buckle the lid can make the bottle better seal.

9, the lid buckle, tighten.

10, put on the heater. 2 days you can eat crisp and delicious Lapacho garlic.

According to the old man said, Laha garlic garlic word, and "count" the word homophone, which is the family business to close the account on Laha this day, the year's income and expenditure calculated out, you can see the profit and loss, including foreign debt and foreign debt, are to be counted clearly on this day, "Laha count" is so. "This is what happened. Lahai this day to the debtor son of the debtor, to the family owes him money to send a letter, the ready to pay back the money.

There is a folk proverb in Beijing: "Laha congee, Laha garlic, the release of the account of sending letters, the debtor to pay." Later, those who owed money to others used garlic instead of the word "count" to show that they were taboo and avoided the word "count", but in fact, they owed money to others and had to pay it back after all. In the old Beijing New Year's Eve, the streets and alleys of the hutongs sell spicy vegetables, but no sale of Lapacho garlic.

Why? You think ah, selling Lahai garlic have to yell it, how to yell? How do you do that? Just yell, "Lahai garlic!" (Lahai counted to) debtors hear yelling heart thumping, how the streets and shouting debt collection ah! Besides, you're a small businessman, who do you count with! People do not count with you is good, so Lahai garlic can not be down the street yelling, are a family of their own hands bubble Lahai garlic, their first to calculate for themselves, this year, how to live this year.