What traditional festivals are still in your memory in the fast fashion era?

The eighth day of the twelfth lunar month is Laba Festival, which is a very traditional festival in China. Generally speaking, Laba has the custom of eating Laba porridge on this day.

I was most looking forward to drinking Laba porridge when I was a child. I remember when I was a child, few people in our local countryside liked to drink porridge. Even in the morning, we all eat white rice. Only on Laba Festival, the "head mother" in the family is the woman with the highest status in the family. She will arrange her daughter-in-law to stay at home and cook Laba porridge with the best cooking skills, and then the whole family will get together to drink porridge for one day.

Our local Laba porridge is always made of eight ingredients, glutinous rice, sorghum, longan, peanuts, lotus seeds, red beans, red dates and Chinese cabbage, which are boiled for 4 hours with charcoal fire. It tastes very delicious.

This Laba porridge is very meaningful. Old people say that these materials represent:

1, glutinous rice: white and clean, that is, pure and innocent, so as to live a better life.

2, sorghum: step by step, fruitful, that is to say, through the next level has become a useful pillar.

3. Longan: Full circle, early birth of your son, which means the family is full of children.

4. Peanut: "Peanut" means having a son and a daughter, and you can always add the word "good".

5. Lotus seeds: the homonym is "lotus seeds", which is linked to having children, meaning that you can have as many children as you want, and everyone is healthy and smart.

6, red beans: mainly choose its shape, prosperous and round, meaning good health.

7, red dates: auspicious, wishful, prosperous, meaning that family members are safe and healthy, and life is rich and happy.

8. Cabbage: The homonym "white wealth" means that money is easy to come by, and you can have as much as you want.

The main moral of Laba porridge is: a family is healthy, children and grandchildren are full, incense is strong, and financial resources are rolling.

After reading these explanations, do you think this is the "wealth" left by our ancestors? Thinking about the next generation all the time, thinking about everyone at home, a bowl of porridge has so many meanings and so many cultures.

Let's talk about our local custom of Laba Festival.