What do you do on Laha?

1, drink Laha congee

Laha this day there is the custom of eating Laha congee, Laha congee is also known as the seven treasures and five flavors of congee. The history of drinking Laha congee in China has been more than a thousand years. The earliest began in the Song Dynasty. Every Laha day, whether it is the court, the government, the temple or the people's home to do Laha congee. In the Qing Dynasty, the custom of drinking Laha congee was even more prevalent.

2, cook "five beans"

Some places over the Lahai congee, not called "Lahai congee", but called cooking "five beans", some in the day of Lahai cooking, some in the first five months of Lahai on the congee. Some cooked on the day of Lunar New Year's Day, some cooked on the fifth day of the first month of the Lunar New Year, but also with the surface pinch some "birds head", and rice, beans (five kinds of beans) with the cooking.

3, eat ice

The day before Lahai, people generally use steel pots to scoop up water and ice, wait until the Lahai Festival will be off the pot of ice and ice cracked into pieces. It is said that the ice on this day is very magical, eat it in the next year will not have a stomach ache.

4, eat Laha noodles

Laha noodles, that is, Laha Festival seasonal food. Traditional noodles, popular in the Guanzhong area of Shaanxi Province, in the Chengcheng area around the Wei Bei area of Shaanxi Province, Laha Festival is generally not congee, every year on the morning of the eighth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, families have to eat a bowl of Laha noodles.