Laba is really lively. What traditional food do you eat on Laba Festival?

Every year, the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, that is, the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, is Laba Festival. On this day, there is the custom of offering sacrifices. Besides offering sacrifices, there are many eating customs. Many people think that Laba Festival means eating Laba porridge, but it is not like this. The food customs of Laba Festival vary from place to place. Besides Laba porridge, there are other foods that are also eaten on Laba Festival. Let me talk about Laba.

Dietary customs of Laba Festival

1, Laba porridge

The first thing to say is Laba porridge, which is directly named after Laba. It must be a kind of food eaten on Laba Festival, but there may be some differences in the names of Laba porridge in different places, some places are called Laba porridge, and some places are called laba rice. The ingredients in Laba porridge will vary according to different places, including rice, millet, coix seed, peanuts, red dates, red beans, lotus seeds, mung beans, kidney beans, glutinous rice, walnuts and so on. In addition to the different ingredients, there are also differences in taste. Laba porridge is sweet in most areas, but salty in some places.

Step 2: Ice cubes

The ice here is ordinary ice, because there is a saying called "La Qibala, freezing to death in western Western jackdaw". Refers to the cold time of the year when La Qibala can freeze the particularly cold-resistant western Western jackdaw to death. There is also a saying that "Laba ice can't eat bad people". This is the custom of eating ice on Laba Festival. On the seventh day of the twelfth lunar month, the water in the basin is filled with water. In Laba, the water in the basin freezes, and then the ice cubes are broken and eaten. There is a saying that eating ice on Laba Festival will not cause stomach pain next year.

3. Laba garlic

Laba garlic and purple garlic are soaked in vinegar together. After a while, the originally white garlic turned green. On Laba Festival, people in some areas will eat Laba garlic.

4, Laba tofu

In some places in Anhui, Laba tofu is eaten on Laba Festival, dried before Laba Festival, and some salt water is put when drying tofu. If you want to taste better, you can put some shrimp and so on. This kind of dried bean curd can be eaten directly as a dish in Laba Festival, or fried with other meat foods.

5. Laba noodles

Some places eat Laba noodles instead of Laba porridge on Laba Festival, such as Shaanxi. Laba noodles are based on Laba porridge, so a bowl of hot noodles is usually cooked with eight kinds of vegetables and special meat on the morning of Laba Festival.

6. Cook five beans

In some places, the food eaten in Laba Festival is called boiled five beans. You can see from the name that there are five kinds of beans in the ingredients, plus rice. After cooking, they will eat in their own homes, and neighbors will give each other gifts.

7, stick fire spoon

It is said that Laba Festival is the coldest time of the year, so it is possible to freeze your chin on this day. In order to avoid freezing the chin, Laba Festival should eat some sticky food to stick the chin. Sticky fire spoon is this kind of food. The raw material is glutinous rice flour. After kneading into a ball, put red bean paste in the middle, wrap it, press it into a cake, and eat it after baking.