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Laba Festival, commonly known as Laba

The festival falls on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month

It is one of the traditional festivals in China

Mainly popular in the north of our country

The custom of this festival is to "drink Laba porridge".

Festival origin

Laba Festival, the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, is also known as "talisman Festival", "Buddha into Daoism Festival", "Daoism meeting" and so on. Originally a Buddhist festival to commemorate Sakyamuni Buddha's enlightenment, it gradually became a folk festival.

In the north of our country, there are "children don't you greedy, after the laba is the year" said, the laba means opened the New Year's prelude. Every Laba Festival, the north is busy peeling garlic to make vinegar, soaking Laba garlic, eating Laba noodles Laba porridge. Laba is rarely mentioned in the south. Laba Festival is a typical festival in the north.

Festival customs

Laba porridge

Laba porridge is traditionally eaten in some parts of the country. Although the ingredients of Laba porridge are different in different regions, they all include rice, millet, glutinous rice, kaoliang rice, purple rice, Job's tears and other cereals, soybean, red bean, mung bean, kidney bean, cowpea and other legumes. Red dates, peanuts, lotus seeds, wolfberry, chestnut, walnut kernel, almonds, longan, raisins, ginkgo and other dried fruits.

Laba noodle

Laba noodles, or Laba Festival food. Laba noodles are eaten instead of Laba congee in northern China where rice is not produced or rarely produced. The next day to make saozi, roll noodles, to the eighth morning of the twelfth lunar month the whole family eat Laba noodles.

Laba garlic

Laba garlic, in most parts of North China on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month with vinegar soaking garlic custom. Laba more than ten days later, during the Spring Festival, due to vinegar soaking, garlic as a whole is green, very nice, and vinegar also has the spicy taste of garlic. New Year's Eve, before and after the Spring Festival, with Laba garlic and vinegar to eat dumplings, mixed cold dishes, taste very good.

Holiday wishes

Laba festival is happy, work again busy also want to remember to eat Laba porridge, I heard that this day do not eat Laba porridge, ears will be frozen, so I can not receive my blessing. In addition, remember to call the elders to greet, wish everyone a happy Laba festival, peace and happiness.

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Final adjudication: Li Shiqing, Sun Li

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