Besides eating Laba porridge, what other customs are there on Laba Festival? What is the direction of the God of Wealth on Laba Festival 2019? Let’s take a look at the Laba Festival customs in different places. The twelfth month of the lunar calendar is commonly known as La Yue. Come to Shui Mo Xiansheng's website to learn about the relevant content of the twelfth month of the lunar calendar in 2018!The location of the God of Wealth on Laba Festival 2019:December 8, 2018 (Lunar calendar)January 13, 2019, Sunday, Capricorn (solar calendar) 【Today’s lunar calendar is suitable】 Pray for blessings, get married, move, bring in wealth, move into a new home, install a bed and make a stove, accept marriage proposals, build houses, fast and offer sacrifices, take up a post, seek offspring, erect pillars, raise beams, plant crops, bring in livestock, catch animals, and go to school. [Today’s taboos in the almanac] Repair graves and burials, open warehouses, start drilling, travel meridians, break ground, open the market, God of Wealth position, God of Happiness: Northwest, God of Fortune: Southwest, God of Wealth: Due East The direction of the God of Wealth on Laba Festival 2019 is due east. What are the customs of Laba Festival?1. The custom of Laba Festival in Shaanxi Province : After cooking the Laba porridge, people should first offer sacrifices to gods and ancestors. If you want to give it to relatives and friends, make sure to send it out before noon. Finally, the whole family can eat it. It is a good sign to save the leftover Laba porridge if there is any left after a few days of eating it, as it means "abundance every year". If you give the porridge to poor people, you will be accumulating merit for yourself. In some places where rice is not produced or produced in low quantity, people do not eat Laba porridge but Laba noodles. Use various fruits and vegetables to make the sauce and stir-fry the noodles. On the morning of the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, the whole family eats together.2. The custom of Laba Festival in Gansu is to cook Laba porridge with grains and vegetables. After it is cooked, it is not only eaten by the family, but also distributed to neighbors and used to feed livestock. In Wuwei, Gansu, people pay attention to celebrating "vegetarian Laba Festival". They eat thick rice porridge, lentil rice or thick rice. After cooking, they eat it with fried snacks and twisted dough sticks. The folk custom calls it "lentil porridge with snacks". 3. Customs of Laba Festival in Xining: People do not drink porridge on Laba Festival, but eat wheat kernel rice. On the seventh night of the twelfth lunar month, freshly milled wheat kernels are cooked with beef and mutton, and seasonings such as green salt, ginger peel, pepper, cardamom, and Miaoxiang are added. After simmering overnight, the wheat kernel rice becomes fragrant and delicious. 4. Customs of Laba Festival in Jiangsu and Zhejiang: Jiangsu people eat two kinds of Laba porridge: sweet and salty. Water chestnuts, walnut kernels, pine nuts, Euryale ferox, red dates, chestnuts, fungus, green vegetables, enoki mushrooms, etc. should be added to Laba porridge. If you are cooking salty porridge, just add vegetables and oil into it. Zhejiang people usually use walnut kernels, pine nut kernels, lotus seeds, red dates, longan meat, lychee meat, etc. to cook Laba porridge, which is sweet and delicious. It is said that this method of cooking porridge originated from Nanjing. 5. Customs of Laba Festival in Northwest China. In the northern Shaanxi Plateau, in addition to using a variety of rice and beans to make porridge, various dried fruits, tofu and meat are also added to the mixture. After eating, the porridge should be smeared on the door, stove and trees outside the door to ward off evil spirits and disasters and welcome a good harvest in the coming year. Moreover, it is taboo to eat vegetables on Laba Day. If you eat vegetables on this day, there will be a lot of weeds in the fields. On the Laba Day, people not only eat Laba porridge, but also use porridge to worship their ancestors and granaries. 6. The custom of Laba Festival in Ningxia is to make Laba rice by cooking various beans, rice and potatoes into porridge, and then add "wheat ears" cut into diamond-shaped willow leaves with wheat or buckwheat flour, or "sparrow heads" made into small round eggs, and then add chopped green onion oil before serving. Just like in northern Shaanxi, the whole family only eats Laba rice and no vegetables on this day. |
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