After the first day of the lunar month, porridge is cooked in Laba.

Lu You wrote a poem: "Today, Buddha porridge is more fed with each other, and I feel that Jiangcun's festival is new." The so-called Buddha porridge refers to the Laba porridge cooked on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month.

Starting from the winter solstice of the lunar calendar, the Central Plains are frozen, the snow and white frost are frozen, the long winter is dormant on earth, and all things are sleeping, waiting for a new beginning.

A pot of steaming Laba porridge is the prelude to the people's worship of the ancestors and gods of heaven and earth.

As for the Laba Festival first and then Laba porridge, or Laba porridge first and Laba Festival?

Where did this bowl of porridge come from?

Which eight crops are placed inside?

Who is orthodox, meat, vegetables, or salty and sweet?

In fact, it is no longer verified. However, as a time traveler, Xi Yunfei wants to tell you that in ancient times, sugar was very expensive, and those who drink sweet porridge, sweet tofu brain, and eat sweet dumplings were not orthodox!

The month at the end of the year is called the "twelfth lunar month".

"La means connecting" means alternation of new and old ("Book of Sui Dynasty: Literary and Rite").

"Wa" means hunting together" refers to hunting prey to worship ancestors and gods. "Wa" comes from next to "meat", which means using meat to "winter sacrifice";

"La is to chase the epidemic and welcome the spring." Laba Festival is also called "Buddha's Achievement Festival", also known as "Taohuihui", which is actually the origin of what is called La Day on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month.

The most important day in the twelfth lunar month is the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, which was called "La Day" in ancient times, commonly known as "La Ba Festival". At this time, there is no concept of New Year's Eve. Only by staying up with the New Year, the whole family is waiting for dawn to welcome the arrival of the new year.

Since the pre-Qin Dynasty, the Laba Festival is the day when ancient times celebrated the harvest and thanked ancestors and gods for their sacrifices. The La day was called "Jiaping" in the Xia Dynasty, the Shang Dynasty called "Qingsheng" and the Zhou Dynasty was called "Dawa".

Because it was held in December, it was called the twelfth lunar month and the La Festival was called the La Day.

According to "Shuowen": "After the winter solstice, on the third day of the Xu, La, sacrifice to all gods."

The Whirl day in the pre-Qin period is the third Xu day after the winter solstice.

After worshiping ancestors and gods, people still have to fight the epidemic. The most commonly used medical method in ancient times was to expel ghosts and treat diseases. I won’t talk about whether it is useful or not, but it is just to be at ease.

The so-called exorcist ghosts originated from the "Nuo" scriptures in the pre-Qin period. They were still available in the custom of beating drums and exorcism in the twelfth lunar month.

Later, Buddhism was introduced in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and the Buddha's Day of enlightenment and the La Day were merged, which was called the "Dharma Treasure Festival".

It was only fixed on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month since the Southern and Northern Dynasties.

Later, due to the intervention of Buddhism, the La Day was changed to the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, and since then it has become a custom.

As for why you have to drink a bowl of Laba porridge during Laba Festival?

Who knows, it’s like closing your eyes before going to bed and opening your eyes when you wake up. This bowl of porridge has been drunk for thousands of years. Anyway, do you like to drink or not? Laba porridge has never disappeared from your life. Do you still remember the jar of eight-treasure porridge that was so sticky when you were a child?

Of course, in addition to drinking Laba porridge, Laba Festival also has many unique customs.

For example: Eat Laba tofu (a specialty of Qian County, Anhui), eat Laba garlic (North China), boil "five beans", Laba noodles, eat ice, etc. It is said that the ice of Laba Festival is magical. After eating it, you will not have stomachache in the next year. There are also some foods rich in local characteristics such as Mai Renji (Xining, Qinghai).

As for Shuofang, because the Guanzhong Plain has abundant products, it is not difficult to collect eight crops.

Xi Yunfei was dug up by his mother early in the morning to worship the gods of heaven and earth, and two spirit cards found by Liu that he didn't know where he found them, which were his grandfather and grandma.

After worshiping, Xi Yunfei realized that today was Laba Festival. Thinking of the small bowl of eight-treasure porridge I received in the kindergarten in my previous life, Xi Yunfei was inexplicably sad.

"Mom, is the Laba porridge ready?" Xi Yunfei looked at Liu in anticipation.

Liu was stunned when he heard this and said suddenly: "You mean cooking five beans, right?"

"Boat five beans?" Xi Yunfei was stunned for a moment. It seemed that there was also this kind of name. Because some places could not gather eight kinds of crops, they used five beans instead, so it was not called Laba porridge, but directly called boiling five beans.

Liu smiled and patted the dust off his knees, inserted the incense candle on his hand into the incense burner, and said, "Not only did you cook Wu beans, but you also made your favorite Laba garlic. Haha, let's go, eating Wu beans and Laba garlic is considered a holiday."

"Laba Garlic!"

Xi Yunfei's eyes lit up. At first, this Laba garlic sounds like a dark dish, but people who like to eat garlic will definitely like it.

Garlic soaked with aged vinegar is half sour and half spicy, which is most suitable for relieving greasiness or appetizing.

Next to him, the third sister heard Laba garlic eating, and her little mouth was drooling. She broke out from the arms of her elder brother Xi Junpeng, waved her chubby little hand and said, "Mom, and I, I want to eat Laba garlic too. I want to eat laba skewers with lamb skewers, I want to eat ten skewers."

When Xi Yunfei heard this, he turned around and saw that the three sisters had been studying and studying at Fang Xingmu these days. It is said that not only could they write the names of the whole family, but even Uncle Liu San praised her for her beautiful writing, at least as good as Xi Yunfei's calligraphy.

"Haha, if the third sister eats it, the second brother will probably not be able to hold it anymore." Xi Yunfei reached out and hugged the third sister into his arms. After the little girl served her delicious food and drinks for the past few months, her weight increased by a factor of a magnitude.

At this time, he was rubbing Xi Yunfei with his little fleshy face, secretly muttering that his elder brother Xi Junmai had confiscated all her candies. The report was so loud that he thought he was very small. In fact, Xi Junmai behind him heard a word of it.

Xi Yunfei laughed while listening. Because she couldn't stand the little girl acting coquettishly, she would give her a whole bag of candy every time she asked for. This actually caused the little girl to suffer. After all, it was not good for a child to eat too much candy.

A few days ago, the third sister was grumbled with a toothache. Xi Yunfei was so scared that she was half-hearted. After looking for a doctor, she realized that she was at the age of changing her baby teeth. Her two teeth were loose and were about to fall off, but the roots of the teeth were constantly causing the pain to make the third sister feel very wronged.

Xi Yunfei thought, reached out to open the third sister's little mouth, and looked at her only ten remaining teeth, and almost laughed.

"Don't eat sugar anymore, so that your mouth will not fall out. Then you will be said to be meat and you will not be able to chew the rice."

Xi Yunfei felt that it was time for him to be strong in his attitude towards educating his sister, otherwise this girl would probably have to go to heaven.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he finished speaking, the little girl's big almond-like eyes turned red in an instant. Xi Yunfei was simply too familiar with this rhythm. It would be fine if he compromised himself, but if he didn't agree, then he would roar with crying and shouting.

He knew that this girl was acting, but Xi Yunfei couldn't stand the attack of the third sister's big-eyed cute baby that made people feel soft-hearted.

"Okay, okay, when I turned around and ate Laba porridge, my second brother secretly put a few hard candies into your bowl. You can eat them secretly, don't let the elder brother see them, do you know?" Xi Yunfei finally compromised.

After so many practical battles, the little girl already knew what it means to stop at the right time. After hearing it for a while, she would have a candy and laughed loudly. She didn't have the attitude that was just adorable.

Alas, I always have too soft hearts, too soft hearts.

The family of four walked out of the ancestral hall and hurried over to the old housekeeper with He Sheng.

He Sheng's ups and downs, his fleshy face was full of anxiety: "Langjun, no, all the shops in Cao Yan's family have been sealed, and the person who sealed the shop is the new county magistrate from the Tang Dynasty..."
Chapter completed!