What are the customs and meanings of Laba Festival?

The moral of Laba Festival is to pray for a good harvest and sacrifice to ancestors. Custom: The northern area is busy peeling garlic to make vinegar, soaking laba garlic and eating laba porridge. Laba is rarely mentioned in the south, and Laba Festival is a typical northern festival.

Laba Festival is held in December, so it is called the twelfth month, and La Worship is called the twelfth day. Before the Han Dynasty, the specific date of La Worship was not fixed, and it was not until the Han Dynasty that the third garrison day after the winter solstice was designated as "La Ri". La Worship's goal is the ancestors and the gods of five families.

Laba porridge everywhere: Shaanxi: Laba porridge should be given to relatives and friends after it is ready, and it must be sent out before noon. Finally, the whole family eats together. It is a good sign that the leftover Laba porridge will be preserved after eating for a few days, which means "more than one year".

If you give porridge to the poor, it will be better for you. In some places where little or no rice is produced, people eat laba noodles instead of laba porridge. Make minced meat with all kinds of fruits and vegetables and roll out noodles. On the morning of the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, the whole family eats together.

Beijing: Laba porridge in Beijing can be said to be the most exquisite. There are many things mixed in white rice, such as red dates, lotus seeds, walnuts, chestnuts, almonds, pine nuts, longan, grapes, ginkgo, moss, roses, red beans and peanuts. No fewer than 20 kinds. On the seventh night of the twelfth lunar month, people began to wash rice, soak fruits, peel and remove stones, and began to stew with low fire in the middle of the night. Laba porridge was not cooked until the next morning.