What should you eat to maintain your health during Laba Festival? Do you know the legend about Laba?
Speaking of Laba Festival, I believe everyone is familiar with it. So, let’s take a look at what to eat to maintain health during Laba Festival? Do you know the legend about Laba? In the twelfth month of the lunar calendar in 2020, the severe winter is approaching, heralding the arrival of the new year. As the saying goes, a new year brings new hope. Let’s follow Mr. Shui Mo to find out the good and bad luck of the new day.What should you eat to maintain your health during Laba Festival?Eat Laba porridge with longan for health preservation on Laba Festival. Suitable for constitutions: Qi deficiency, blood deficiency and Yang deficiency. Eat Laba porridge with coix seed for health preservation on Laba Festival. Suitable for constitutions: damp heat. Eat Laba porridge with oats for health preservation on Laba Festival. Suitable for constitutions: peaceful.Do you know the legend about Laba?Legend 1Legend has it that Laba Festival originated from the custom of "beating ghosts with red beans". Legend has it that Zhuanxu, one of the Five Ancient Emperors, had three sons who turned into evil ghosts after their death and specifically came out to scare children. In ancient times, people generally believed in superstitions and were afraid of ghosts and gods. They thought that strokes, illnesses, and poor health among adults and children were all caused by plague ghosts. These evil ghosts are not afraid of anything in the sky or on the earth, but they are afraid of red beans, hence the saying "red beans can fight ghosts". Therefore, on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, people cook porridge with red beans and adzuki beans to get rid of epidemics and welcome good luck. Legend II Laba Festival is on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. Legend has it that it originated in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty. It is said that when Zhu Yuanzhang was imprisoned and suffering, it was a cold day. Zhu Yuanzhang, who was cold and hungry, actually dug out some red beans, rice, red dates and seven or eight kinds of grains from the rat hole in the prison. Zhu Yuanzhang cooked these things into porridge. Because that day was the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, Zhu Yuanzhang named this pot of multi-grain porridge "Laba porridge". Enjoyed a delicious meal. Later, Zhu Yuanzhang pacified the country and became the emperor. In order to commemorate that special day in prison, he designated that day as Laba Festival and officially named the multi-grain porridge he ate that day as Laba Congee. |
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