Why do we eat ice on Laba Festival? What are the customs of Laba Festival in different places?
Everyone knows that we have to eat Laba porridge on Laba Festival, but in some places the custom of Laba Festival is to eat ice? Why do we eat ice on Laba Festival? The twelfth month of the lunar calendar is commonly known as "La Yue" among the people. If you want to know more about the twelfth month of the lunar calendar in 2018, please visit Mr. Shui Mo’s website!Why do we eat ice on Laba Festival?As the saying goes, "The seventh and eighth days of the twelfth lunar month, beggars are frozen to death." As we all know, the most common custom of Laba Festival is drinking Laba porridge, but eating Laba ice is also an important part of the traditional customs of Laba Festival. There is a saying that goes, "Whether next year will be successful depends on the Laba ice." Early in the morning of Laba Day, people go to the riverside or spring to break ice and carry it back home, which is called "Laba ice".Whoever gets up early and hits the ice first will have better luck. It is said that Laba ice can cure all diseases. The ice made on this day must be kept for a long time so that children can have the joy of eating it. Of course, adults eat it too. What’s interesting is that no matter how you eat, you won’t have diarrhea. On this day, women have to make a dough with "Laba ice", peas and barley flour. However, this is just a folk saying. You should not eat too much ice in winter. For people with weak stomachs and prone to diarrhea, as well as special groups such as the elderly, children, and pregnant women, you should pay more attention to eating less or even not eat it. A list of customs of Laba Festival in various places: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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