What are the traditional customs of Laha Festival

Customs of Laha Festival include rituals, drinking Laha congee, making Laha garlic, making Laha tofu, and Laha noodles.

1, sacrifices

Anciently, there are eight objects of sacrifice: the first stingy God Shen Nong, the Secretary stingy God Hou Ji, the God of the agricultural God, the God of the field officials, the post table border God began to create the field hut, open the road, the delineation of boundaries of the people, the cat and tiger God, the workshop of God, the dyke, the God of the ditch, the water, the God of the water, the insect God. To the Tang and Song dynasties, this section is again covered with the color of God and Buddha.

2, drink Lapa congee

It is said that China's history of drinking Lapa congee, has been more than a thousand years. The earliest began in the Song Dynasty, every Lahai this day, whether it is the court, the government, the temple or the people's home to do Lahai congee.

3, soak Lahai garlic

Lahai garlic is in the lunar calendar on the eighth of the day to soak garlic, garlic cloves to the old skin, immersed in rice vinegar, installed into a small altar tightly sealed to the eve of the opening, the garlic cloves Cham Ching green, garlic and vinegar acid aroma dissolved in the nose, is to eat dumplings with the best condiments, mixed with cold dishes can also be used, the flavor is unique.

4, the production of Lahai tofu

"Lahai tofu" is a folk specialty of Qianxian County, Anhui Province, on the eve of the Spring Festival Lahai, that is, before and after the eighth day of the twelfth month of the Chinese lunar calendar, Qianxian County, households have to sun tanning tofu, the people of the natural sun tanning tofu known as "Lahai tofu "

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5, Lahai noodles

Northern China, some places that do not produce or less rice, people do not eat Lahai congee, but eat Lahai noodles. Every other day with a variety of fruits and vegetables into a bashful, the noodles rolled out, to the morning of the eighth of Lunar New Year, the whole family to eat Laha noodles.

Classic Lahai Festival legend:

1, Taoist legend

Legendary Lahai Chuhai this day is the five emperors will be in the upper Xuandu Yu Jing day, only for the school to determine the living people to receive the benefits of fortune, in this day of the cultivation of the people to fasting and bathing, towards the real road, will be able to get the blessing of the infinite.

2, the Buddhist legend

In Buddhism there will be Sakyamuni Buddha in this day of enlightenment said, according to legend in two thousand five hundred years ago, Sakyamuni for the right way in the vajra lotus above, due to the long days caused by their own bones as thin as a wood, fortunate to be difficult to get the two shepherdesses and Polo to provide the milk of cows milk only to be able to survive.

Finally, after forty-eight days of suffering, he realized the Dharma and attained great enlightenment. This day is the eighth day of the Lunar New Year. Since then, the eighth day of the Lunar month has become a major commemorative day in Buddhism.

3, Qin Shi Huang repair the Great Wall legend

Legend has it that when Qin Shi Huang built the Great Wall, using all the world's laborers, but often no food following the day, due to the difficult conditions at that time, the family of the laborers can not be delivered in time, so the laborers will be left with a small amount of food together, boiled into a pot of grain porridge to tide over the difficult times.

This day is the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, and the descendants of the Lunar New Year will boil Lunar congee on the eighth day of the Lunar New Year to commemorate this day.