Traditional customs of Laba porridge

In ancient China, Emperor Tiandi made a La Worship out of dry things in the twelfth lunar month to worship the gods. La Worship includes two aspects: one is sacrifice; The second is prayer. Sacrifice is to worship the Eight Valley Stars, offering sacrifices with dry things to express the meaning of Qingfeng harvest. Dry matter is called wax, and Baba is the god of eight stars, so it is called Laba. In terms of time, La Worship is held on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month every year. The eighth day of the twelfth lunar month is also called Laba. Prayer is an important aspect of La Worship, that is, praying for good weather in the coming year to ensure a bumper agricultural harvest. Every year, on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, dry things are sacrificed to the eight-grain star god and prayed, which is called Laba Wish or Wax Eight Wish, which is homophonic with porridge. So on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, dried fruits and vegetables are mixed together, cooked into porridge, and offered to the god of agriculture to express the meaning of Qingfeng harvest and pray. Laba porridge is used to homophone the meaning of Laba porridge, which is the origin of Laba porridge. It is to cook porridge with dry things, sacrifice to the god of agriculture, pray and bless, and celebrate the harvest.

In Henan, Laba porridge, also known as "everyone's meal", is a holiday food custom to commemorate the national hero Yue Fei. Legend has it that Yue Jiajun crusaded against Jin Lu and won successively in Zhuxian Town, but was chased back by the twelve golden seals of the imperial court. On the way back to Li, the soldiers were hungry and cold, and the Henan people along the way poured the food sent by each family into a big pot to cook porridge for the soldiers to satisfy their hunger and keep out the cold. This day happens to be the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. Later, Yue Fei was killed in Fengbo Pavilion. In order to remember this national hero, every household in Henan eats "everybody's meal" on Laba Day to show their memory.

Another way of saying it is that Laba porridge was originally cooked by Buddhist temples for bodhisattvas-eighteen kinds of dried fruits symbolize eighteen arhats, and later this custom became popular among the people. The story of Laba porridge in Buddhism comes from the story of a cow girl providing chyle. Later, it was effective for Buddhist disciples in China. On the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, they cooked porridge with whole grains and fruits for the Buddha to eat, which is called Laba porridge, also called Qibao Wuwei porridge. Today, this custom has gradually spread to the people, and most people have to cook Laba porridge on this day, which has become one of the folk customs.

Second, Laba porridge custom:

After laba porridge is cooked, it should be offered to buddhas and monks first. After that, if you want to send it to relatives and friends, you must send it out before noon. If you give porridge to the poor, it's good for yourself. Finally, the whole family eats together. Leftover Laba porridge, preserved after a few days, is considered a good omen, meaning "more than a year".

Third, the practice of Laba porridge:

Exercise 1

Ingredients: glutinous rice 150g, mung bean 25g, red bean 25g, cashew nut 25g, peanut 25g, longan 25g, jujube 25g, dried tangerine peel1;

Seasoning: 75g rock sugar,

Exercise:

1. Soften all materials with water and wash them.

2. Fill the porridge pot with water, add all the ingredients to boil, and then turn to medium heat for about 30 minutes.

3. Add rock sugar to taste and serve.

Features: sweet and delicious, rich in nutrition.

The chef knows everything: this porridge can be eaten cold or hot.

Exercise 2

Raw materials: 50g of rice, 50g of yellow rice, 50g of sticky yellow rice, 50g of glutinous rice, 50g of glutinous rice (sticky sorghum rice), adzuki bean 100g, lotus seed 100g, longan 100g, peanut 100g and chestnut/kloc-.

manufacturing method

1. First put the lotus seeds in a bowl, soak them in water, then put them in a steamer, steam them on high fire for about 1 hour, and take them out for later use.

2, remove the skin and core of longan, as long as the meat; Peel chestnuts from their shells and clothes.

3. Put a proper amount of water into the pot, then wash barnyard grass, red beans, peanuts and small red dates and pour them into the pot to cook. When they are half cooked, add rice, yellow rice and glutinous rice.

Wash the yellow rice and glutinous rice, pour them into the pot and cook together. After the pots are boiled, cook them with a small torch. Cook the porridge until it is 70-80% mature, pour the steamed lotus seeds into the porridge and stir well. After boiling, turn off the fire and put in clean and disinfected ones.

Sprinkle sugar on the pot. Now there are ready-made ingredients of Laba porridge in the supermarket, but you can also choose the ingredients of Laba porridge according to your eating habits and physical condition, and the cooked Laba porridge will be very unique.

Exercise 3

The raw materials are red dates, walnuts, black rice, fragrant rice, corn, raisins, red beans and millet (according to their own population ratio).

manufacturing method

1, red beans and corn are soaked for 3-4 hours in advance.

2, other materials mixed and washed.

3. Mix all the ingredients in a pot, add enough water, and simmer the porridge.

Use a teapot or other porridge cooking tools, and it is best to cook for three hours! Laba porridge is simple and nutritious. Like sweet, put some rock sugar together as a dish.

Practice 4:

There are bean products, diced meat or sausages in production.

Ingredients: 2 tablespoons of millet, corn, soybeans, mung beans and red beans; Ingredients: minced pork 100g, lotus seeds and chestnuts, a little salt.

Exercise:

First, soak all kinds of beans in cold water for 30 minutes and filter dry; Lotus seeds go to the heart and chestnuts are peeled; Boil the water, first put the beans in and cook for about 15 minutes, then add other materials, then boil the water and cook for about 45 minutes with low heat.

Exercise 5

Main ingredients:

Black rice (moderate amount)

Glutinous rice (appropriate amount)

Red beans (moderate amount)

Mung beans (appropriate amount)

Peanut (moderate amount)

Raisins (moderate amount)

Coix seed (appropriate amount)

Seasoning:

Longan (appropriate amount)

Lotus seed (appropriate amount)

Jujube (appropriate amount)

Rock sugar (appropriate amount)

Steps:

1, red beans, peanuts and lotus seeds were washed several times and soaked in water overnight.

2. Wash the black rice and soak it overnight.

3. Add the right amount of cold water to the rice cooker, and add the soaked red beans, peanuts and lotus seeds.

4. Add the black rice soaked overnight (and pour it into the pot together with the soaked rice washing water), turn on the power, press the "Cook" button and cover the pot.

5. Wash mung beans and coix seed and soak them in water for a while.

6. Peel longan and wash it with raisins and glutinous rice.

7. After the water in the pot is boiled, add mung beans and barley.

8. Add longan, raisins and glutinous rice, stir, cover the pot and continue to cook.

9. After boiling again for about ten minutes, add the washed red dates.

10, continue to cook for about half an hour, and then add a proper amount of rock sugar.

1 1. Continue to cook until Mi Dou blooms and the porridge becomes sticky. Unplug the power and stew for about ten minutes.