What are the traditional foods for Lahat Festival?

The traditional foods of Lahat Festival are Lahat congee, Lahat noodles, Lahat garlic and so on.

1, Lahai congee

Talking about Lahai food customs, the most well-known is Lahai drink Lahai congee, which is a variety of ingredients such as rice, glutinous rice, jujubes, peanuts, red beans, millet, lotus seeds and other boiled into a porridge. Laha congee, also known as "seven treasures and five flavors congee" and "Buddha congee", has a history of more than 1,000 years, and was first used to worship ancestors and deities, and to celebrate a good harvest. Laha congee is made in different ways, both salty and sweet, and there are many varieties of congee.

2, Laha noodles

In Shaanxi Wei Bei area, Laha Festival day generally do not drink Laha congee, families have to eat a meal of noodles in the morning, that is, Laha noodles. Laha noodles, commonly known as bashimi noodles, are boiled with hand-rolled noodles and put into a bowl, then topped with two spoons of bashimi boiled with pork, tofu, cauliflower, fungus, carrots, garlic and other ingredients, which is not a word for aroma.

3, Lahai garlic

In most parts of northern China, Lahai day with vinegar soaked garlic custom, soak out the garlic is called "Lahai garlic". Compared to the cooking process of Laha congee, soaking Laha garlic is relatively simple. Peeled garlic cloves, into a transparent, dry glass container, pour just over the garlic cloves of rice vinegar, cover the lid sealed storage for about 10 days, until the garlic cloves become green, such as emerald jasper, can be eaten.

LaBaJie story legend

LaBaJie is the lunar month (December), the legend originated in the end of the Yuan and early Ming Dynasty, it is said that Zhu Yuanzhang fell in prison suffering, when the cold days, cold and hungry Zhu Yuanzhang even from the prison of the rat hole planing to find out some of the red beans, rice, jujubes, and other seven kinds of grains and miscellaneous grains.

Zhu Yuanzhang these things into a porridge, because that day is the eighth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, Zhu Yuanzhang will be beautifully named this pot of grain porridge for the congee of the eighth day of the lunar calendar. The company's website has been updated with the latest information on the company's website, including its website. Later, Zhu Yuanzhang pacified the world, sitting in the north towards the south as the emperor, in order to commemorate that special day in prison, he then set the day as Lahai Festival, the day he ate mixed grain congee formally named Lahai congee.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - Lapa Festival