Is Laba Festival in 2020 an auspicious day for traveling? What traditional foods are eaten on Laba Festival?

Is Laba Festival in 2020 an auspicious day for traveling? What traditional foods are eaten on Laba Festival?
Introduction: You also need to choose an auspicious day when traveling far away. So is Laba Festival in 2020 an auspicious day for traveling far away? What traditional foods are eaten on Laba Festival? The twelfth month of the lunar calendar has many nicknames, such as Ladong, Candong, Qiongdong, Layue, and Bingyue. The most familiar name is "Layue". Let’s take a look at Shuimoxiansheng.com’s special topic for the twelfth month of the lunar calendar in 2019.

Is Laba Festival 2020 an auspicious day for traveling far away?

Gregorian calendar: Thursday, January 2, 2020 Capricorn
Lunar calendar: December 8, 2019, God of War → Heavenly Prison (Black Road Day)
Year: Year of the Pig, Month of the Pig, Day of the Pig
Conflict: Dog (Wuxu) and South
Today's Recommendations:
Pray for blessings, get married, break ground, take office, offer sacrifices, accept marriage proposals, seek heirs, remove burials, collect wealth, erect pillars, raise beams, plant crops, open markets, set up vouchers, seek wealth, fast and offer sacrifices, enroll in school, tailor clothes, and wear hairpins
Today's taboos:
Separation, migration, settling down, litigation, building houses, building bridges, building embankments, housing livestock, opening warehouses, purchasing property, sailing, traveling, going out to seek medical treatment
Based on the above content, we can know that taking up office [i.e. traveling] on this day is suitable according to the lunar calendar, so Laba Festival in 2020 is an auspicious day for traveling far away!

What traditional food is eaten during Laba Festival?

Traditional food for Laba Festival: Laba porridge
The history of drinking Laba porridge in my country has been more than one thousand years. It first started in the Song Dynasty.
Lu You, a poet in the Song Dynasty, mentioned the importance of Laba porridge among the people in his poem, "Today, people are giving each other porridge, and the riverside villages feel new in festival items." On the day of the twelfth lunar month, Laba porridge would be made by the imperial court, government offices, temples and ordinary people. By the Qing Dynasty, the custom of drinking Laba porridge became even more popular. In the palace, the emperor, empress, princes, etc. would give Laba porridge to civil and military ministers, attendants and palace maids, and distribute rice, fruits, etc. to various temples for the monks to eat. In the folks, every household also makes Laba porridge to worship their ancestors; at the same time, the family gathers together to eat it and give gifts to relatives and friends.
Traditional food for Laba Festival: Laba garlic
Pickling Laba garlic is a custom in the north, especially in North China. As the name suggests, garlic is pickled on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. The method is extremely simple. Put the peeled garlic cloves into a sealable jar, bottle or other container, then pour in vinegar, seal the mouth and put it in a cold place. Slowly, the garlic soaked in vinegar will turn green, and finally become emerald green all over, like emerald jade.
Traditional food for Laba Festival: Laba tofu
"Laba Tofu" is a folk specialty of Qianxian County, Anhui Province. Around Laba Festival, every household in Qianxian County will dry tofu. People call this naturally dried tofu "Laba Tofu".
Traditional food for Laba Festival: boiled five beans
In some places, the porridge cooked during Laba Festival is not called "Laba porridge" but called "five beans". Some cook it on the day of Laba Festival, while others cook it on the fifth day of the twelfth lunar month. People also knead some "sparrow heads" with dough and cook them together with rice and beans (five kinds of beans).
Traditional food for Laba Festival: Laba Noodles
In some places in northern my country where rice is not produced or produced in low quantity, people do not eat Laba porridge but Laba noodles. The next day, use various fruits and vegetables to make臊子, and roll the noodles. On the morning of the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, the whole family will eat Laba noodles.

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