What are the customs of Laba Festival in Henan? What do you want to eat? It's urgent ! ! !

People in Henan eat laba rice, which is made of eight kinds of raw materials, such as millet, mung bean, cowpea, wheat kernel, peanut, red dates and corn. When cooking, add some brown sugar and walnuts to make the porridge thick and fragrant, which means a bumper harvest in the coming year.

Laba rice evolved from Laba porridge. Laba porridge has many tricks. Redmi, yellow rice, white rice, cowpea, red bean and other miscellaneous grains, plus lotus seeds, ginkgo, peanuts, water chestnut rice, lily and tremella, make a pot of delicious eight-treasure porridge.

Laba is a ritual to worship ancestors and gods, praying for good harvest and good luck. According to the Book of Rites, La Worship was "the year of December, and everything came together for it." ? Later, Buddhism was introduced, and in order to expand its local influence, traditional culture attached Laba Festival as the Buddha's enlightenment day. Later, with the prevalence of Buddhism, the Buddha's enlightenment day merged with the twelfth day, which was called the "magic weapon festival" in Buddhism. The Northern and Southern Dynasties began to be fixed on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month.