Laba Festival, as a relatively important festival in the month of Laba, has always attracted much attention, including in ancient times, Laba Festival is a traditional festival that is considered to pray for luck and blessings in the coming year, but it has developed to the present day, what are the festival customs of Laba Festival that we are still inheriting, let's take a look.
Laba Festival local customs
1. Northern Anhui region: eat laba cuisine
In northern Anhui, a dish that must be eaten on the day of the Laba Festival is Laba cuisine, which is also a special delicacy in northern Anhui, commonly known as "changing dishes". That is, every day before Laba, each household will shred the carrots, with green onions, garlic, etc., plus sweet and sour salt, stir evenly and put it into the container, seal it for one night and then eat, take out the Laba vegetables on the day of Laba Festival, put some sesame oil and coriander, it is very refreshing.
2. North China: Eat laba garlic
Eating laba garlic can be said to be the custom of most families in North China, and its production method is very simple, that is, on the day of Laba Festival, purple garlic and rice vinegar are selected, the garlic cloves are peeled, soaked in rice vinegar, and sealed in a container. The pickled laba garlic is not only delicious, but the garlic soaked in vinegar will turn green, like jade jasper.
3. Anhui area: eat laba tofu
This area is very popular to eat a kind of folk flavor food around the Laba Festival, that is, Laba tofu, this food is mainly made of soybeans, chili peppers, and spices, according to legend, every household will brew tofu on the day of Laba Festival in ancient times, and the folk will call this naturally dried tofu "Laba Tofu".
4. Shaanxi region: eat laba noodles
For example, because of the abundance of noodles in Shaanxi, people in this area prefer to eat Laba noodles rather than Laba porridge, and they will eat a bowl of Laba noodles on the morning of Laba Festival, and it is rumored that Laba noodles will even be eaten from the eighth day of the lunar month to the 24th day of the lunar month.
5. In most areas: drink laba porridge
Except for a few areas, most of the areas will basically choose to drink porridge on the day of the Laba Festival, that is, Laba porridge, Laba porridge takes everything "porridge" to the meaning, although there are various ways to make Laba porridge, but in general it is a kind of porridge made of a variety of ingredients, most of which have rice, millet, corn, barley, red dates, peanuts, lotus seeds, longan and beans.