What do you eat on Laba Festival in the south? Dietary customs of Laba Festival in southern China.

What to eat on Laba Festival in South China?

1, Hunan

Drinking Laba porridge on Laba Festival is a common custom everywhere. In Changsha, Hunan Province, we not only eat Laba porridge, but also make it with Laba beans. However, Laba porridge in Changsha is generally sweet porridge, but pickled Laba beans are basically salty. In rural areas, glutinous rice, bacon, red dates and walnuts are all used to make laba rice. In addition, in southern Hunan and other places, Laba also has the custom of eating carrion and making fermented bean curd. In Xinhua and Xiangxi, there is also the custom of beating drums on Laba Festival, which means to drive away ghosts and avoid epidemics.

2. Guangxi

In Liucun, Longji Town, Longsheng Autonomous County, Guangxi, local Pan Yao people have the custom of making Ciba on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. The local Yao people soaked and steamed glutinous rice, put it in a stone trough and mashed it into mud, and then kneaded it into glutinous rice. Ciba cake is delicious and very popular among local people.

3. Sichuan

In Sichuan, there is also the custom of drinking Laba porridge, all kinds of which are sweet, salty and spicy, while rural people eat salty porridge, mainly soybeans, peanuts, diced meat, white radish and carrots. Strangers come here to taste, although do as the Romans do, but it is difficult to get used to it. Nowadays, many people in the city eat sweet porridge, which can be said to have their own flavors.

4. Fujian

In Fuzhou, Fujian Province, people usually start making Laba porridge on the seventh night of the twelfth lunar month and stew it carefully all night. When Laba porridge is ready the next morning, they will worship their ancestors first, then give it to relatives and friends and send it out before noon. Finally, the whole family will share food and leave a little, which is a sign of "more than one year". In addition, Fuzhou traditional Laba porridge has an interesting feature. Little lions made of several kinds of fruits will be put in porridge to ward off evil spirits.

5.zhejiang province

Zhejiang people usually cook Laba porridge with walnut kernel, pine nuts, lotus seeds, red dates, longan meat and litchi meat. Sweet and delicious. It is said that this method of cooking porridge was handed down from Nanjing.

6. Jiangsu

People in Jiangsu eat Laba porridge, which is divided into sweet and salty. Water chestnut, walnut kernel, pine nuts, Euryale ferox, red dates, chestnuts, fungus, vegetables and Flammulina velutipes should be added to Laba porridge. If salty porridge cooks it, just add vegetables and oil.

7. Jiangxi

In Nanchang, Jiangxi, Laba is also a traditional auspicious day. In addition to drinking Laba porridge, Nanchang people often hold betrothal, wife-in-law, and other "Laba marriages". In addition, Laba Festival is the first festival before the Spring Festival. Nanchang people regard Laba as a prelude to the Chinese New Year. Starting from Laba, every household will start to prepare peanuts, melon seeds and bacon and buy new year's goods.

To sum up, Laba porridge is usually drunk on Laba Festival in southern China. The taste of Laba porridge is different according to local living habits, with different tastes, styles and characteristics.