What to eat in Guangdong Laba Festival?

Laba porridge, glutinous rice, laba rice, Laba vinegar, Laba tofu.

Cantonese people eat Laba porridge on Laba Festival, which is rich in ingredients. In addition to common rice and miscellaneous beans, glutinous rice, lotus seeds, lilies, and some chestnuts will be added, which has a unique flavor. Glutinous rice is a common food in Laba season in Guangdong. When making glutinous rice, you need to soak it in clear water for five hours, and then steam it with ingredients such as red dates.

Laba Festival is the first festival before the Spring Festival. Rural people regard Laba Festival as a prelude to the Spring Festival. Starting from Laba, every household should prepare peanuts, melon seeds and bacon to buy new year's goods. There is a folk saying that eating Laba porridge will celebrate the New Year.

You don't have to choose Laba this day, you can live a long life and be rich. In rural areas, Laba is also a traditional auspicious day. On this day, in addition to drinking Laba porridge, rural people often engage in betrothal, daughter-in-law, and other Laba marriages.

Wheat grain rice:

Xining Laba Festival does not drink porridge, but eats wheat kernel rice. On the night of the seventh day of the twelfth lunar month, the newly ground wheat grains are cooked with beef and mutton, with green salt, ginger skin, pepper, tsaoko, Miao Xiang and other condiments, and cooked overnight with slow fire.