the laba Rice Porridge Festival

Eighth day lunar month, is a traditional Chinese Han Laba Festival, on this day the majority of our region has to eat laba porridge customs. Laba porridge is eight kinds of fresh food and then harvested fruits boiled, usually for the sweet porridge. The Central Plains region, but many farmers prefer salty to eat Laba porridge, porridge in addition to rice, millet, mung bean, cowpea, peanut, jujube and other raw materials, but also Jialuo Bo, cabbage, vermicelli, seaweed and tofu.


Qin Shi Huang built the Great Wall, the world is ordered from migrant workers, many years can not go home, eat well depend on who to send home. Some migrant workers, home thousands of miles across, food can not get a result, many workers died of starvation in the Great Wall site. One year eighth day the twelfth lunar month, no food to eat of the migrant workers who accumulated a few partners put grain cereals, on the pot boiled gruel, each drink a bowl, but finally starved to death under the Great Wall. In order to commemorate the site of the workers died from starvation in the Great Wall, one eighth day the twelfth lunar month every year to eat, "laba porridge", to mark the occasion.

Laba laba porridge Sisu laba porridge, also known as "Shippo flavors porridge." China's history of drinking laba porridge, more than a thousand years. First began in the Song Dynasty. Laba every day, whether in court, his official temple, or Lebanon's people have to make laba porridge at home. To the Qing Dynasty, the custom of drinking laba porridge is also popular. In the palace, the emperor, empress, prince and so on to civil and military ministers, attendants odalisque thanks laba porridge, rice distribution to the various temples, fruits and other food for the monks. In the civil society, every family has to do laba porridge, worship their ancestors; the same time, the family reunion with food, gifts, friends and family. Throughout China laba porridge tricks, Zheng-qi Jing Qiao, a wide variety. Among them the most stress in Peking, mix in more rice in the items, such as jujube, lotus seeds, walnuts, chestnuts, almonds, pine nuts, longan, hazelnut, grape, ginkgo, caltrop, black hair, rose, red beans, peanuts ... ... Total no less than twenty. Seventh day of the night, people in the twelfth lunar month, it starts to get busy, Wash rice, soak fruit, dial skins, go nuclear, then in the middle of the night picking fine start boiling, then micro-Huodun been stewed to the next day morning, laba porridge be considered Aohao of.

More luxurious people, but also adults, first fruit-shaped sculpture, animals, tricks, and then on the pot boiling. Have more characteristics of laba porridge is put in "fruit lion." Fruit lion is the lion made of several fruit-shaped objects, with the crisp Tiquzaohe dried jujube, as a lion, half a walnut as a lion, a lion foot peach kernel, sweet almond used as a lion's tail. Then use the sugar stick together, put Yu Wan, the Huoxiang a small lion. If the larger bowl, you can put Shuangshi or four small lions. More stress, that is to use Zaoni, red bean, yam, hawthorn cake and other foods with a variety of colors, shape into the Eight Immortals of people, the old god of longevity, like Lohan. This decoration laba porridge, and only the big temple in the past for the table before we can see.