What do people eat on Laba Festival in southern China? Analysis of proverbs about Laba Festival!
Introduction: Different places have different customs, and the same is true for Laba Festival customs. So what do people in the south eat on Laba Festival? Analysis of proverbs about Laba Festival! The twelfth month of the lunar calendar is also known as the twelfth month, or the wax month. So what are the things to do and not to do in the twelfth month? Visit Shui Mo Xiansheng's website to learn more about the twelfth lunar month of 2018.What do people eat on Laba Festival in southern China?Jiangxi <br /> Laba Festival is the first festival before the Spring Festival. People in Nanchang regard it as a prelude to the Spring Festival. Starting from Laba Festival, every household starts preparing peanuts, melon seeds, pickled meat and other New Year’s goods. There is a saying among the people that “After eating Laba porridge, people begin to look forward to the new year.”“You don’t need to pick a good day for Laba, it brings good luck, fortune and longevity.” In Nanchang, Laba is also a traditional auspicious day. On this day, in addition to drinking "Laba porridge", people in Nanchang also often hold "Laba weddings" such as engagement, marrying a daughter-in-law, and marrying a daughter. Hunan <br /> On the Laba Festival, temples make porridge with fragrant grains and fruits to offer to Buddha, which is called Laba porridge and is popular among the people. In addition to eating Laba porridge, people in Changsha and other places also make Laba beans, which have become one of the home-cooked dishes. People in the countryside often cook Laba rice with glutinous rice, bacon, red dates, walnuts, etc. on this day. Laba beans are also best made on this day. There is also a proverb in Changsha that goes "When the La drum sounds, spring grass grows. When the La drum beats, farmers get excited", so the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month is commonly known as "La Day". On this day, many people will worship their ancestors. They will first offer the cooked Laba porridge to their ancestors and then distribute it to their family members. The leftover Laba porridge is also kept and eaten for a few days as it is a good omen for “abundance every year”. Laba porridge in Changsha is generally sweet porridge, but the pickled Laba beans are basically salty. In southern Hunan and other places, there is a custom of eating and making fermented bean curd on Laba Festival. In Xinhua, Xiangxi and other places, there is a custom of beating drums on Laba Festival, which is called Qu Nuo, which means to drive away ghosts and avoid epidemics. Guangdong <br /> Laba Festival is one of China's traditional festivals. People worship their ancestors and the gods of heaven and earth on this day, praying for a good harvest and good fortune. There is a custom of eating Laba porridge in various places. After Buddhism became popular, the Buddha's Enlightenment Day was merged with Laba Festival. Famous temples such as Lingyin Temple in Hangzhou and Hanshan Temple in Suzhou still provide porridge on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. But in Guangdong, the atmosphere of Laba Festival is very dull. In ancient times, the Lingnan water towns had not yet been developed, and the indigenous people's livelihood was not mainly based on farming. They made a living by catching shrimps and fish in the water. No one cultivated the beans and grains needed to make Laba porridge, so there was no custom of eating these things. Some people in Guangdong also celebrate Laba Festival, but mainly in the Pearl River Delta area. It is a custom brought by the Hakka people from the north, but the ingredients used to make Laba porridge are different. For example, millet and red dates are mostly used in the north, while glutinous rice, lilies, lotus seeds, etc. are mostly used in the south. Fujian <br /> The traditional Laba porridge in Fuzhou has an interesting feature: a small lion made of several kinds of fruits is placed on the porridge to ward off evil spirits. In the past, people in Fuzhou usually started making Laba porridge on the night of the seventh day of the twelfth lunar month, simmered it overnight, and the porridge was ready in the early morning of the next day. Some families will first carve the fruit into various shapes, the most interesting of which is making a "fruit lion". Remove the pits from crisp dates and dry them to make the lion's body, use half a walnut kernel as the lion's head, peach kernels as the lion's feet, and almonds as the lion's tail. Then use syrup to stick the various parts together and place them on the porridge. If the bowl is large, you can also place two lions to represent the meaning of "warding off evil and bringing good luck". In large temples, you can also see small figures of the Eight Immortals, Arhats, the God of Longevity, etc. made from colored foods such as jujube paste, bean paste, and hawthorn. After Laba porridge is cooked, it is first offered to gods and ancestors in the morning, and then given to relatives, friends and neighbors before noon. At the end the whole family shares the food, leaving some as a sign of “abundance every year.” In the coldest days of winter, drinking a bowl of steaming, sweet and delicious Laba porridge can drive away the cold and warm the stomach, which is also beneficial to human health. Guangxi <br /> In Dalui Village, Longji Town, Longsheng County, Guangxi, the local Panyao people have the custom of making glutinous rice cakes for the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. The local Yao people soak and steam the glutinous rice, then pound it into a paste in a stone trough, and then knead it into shape to make glutinous rice cakes. Ciba pastries are fragrant, glutinous and delicious, and are loved by local people. Zhejiang <br /> People in Zhejiang usually use walnut kernels, pine nut kernels, lotus seeds, red dates, longan meat, lychee meat, etc. to make Laba porridge, which is sweet and delicious. It is said that this method of cooking porridge originated from Nanjing. Jiangsu <br /> People in Jiangsu eat two kinds of Laba porridge: sweet and salty. Water chestnuts, walnut kernels, pine nuts, water chestnuts, 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. Sichuan <br /> There are many ways to make Laba porridge, including sweet, salty, spicy, and hot. Rural people prefer salty porridge, which is mainly made from soybeans, peanuts, diced meat, white radish, and carrots. When foreigners come here to taste it, although they follow the local customs, it is still difficult for them to get used to it. Nowadays, many city people also eat sweet porridge, and the flavors are different. Proverbs about Laba Festival"The seventh and eighth days of the twelfth lunar month, the crows are frozen to death" means that the seventh and eighth days of the twelfth lunar month are the coldest time of the year, and the cold-hardy crows can be frozen to death. As long as you drink Laba porridge on this morning, your hands and feet will not be frozen all winter."Laba Laba, freeze your chin off" Cover yourself with three layers of wheat quilts in the winter, and you will sleep on steamed buns as a pillow the next year. Laba, Laba, if you have it, it’s Laba, if you don’t have it, hasa. Laba Festival, Kitchen God worship, New Year is coming soon, girls want flowers, boys want firecrackers, the old woman eats osmanthus cake, and the old man wears a new felt hat. After eating Laba rice, we will prepare for the New Year! |
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