"Children, children, don't be hungry, after the eighth year is the year." Even today, when the taste of the New Year is no longer strong, young people still have a straight mouth, saying that the New Year is not interesting, and at the same time, they are full of rituals and planning for the New Year from the beginning of the Lapa Festival. A holiday that conforms to the traditional setting and can celebrate the Spring Festival to a full and complete place is called the "plus version of the Spring Festival Holiday Raiders". From the eighth day of the first lunar month to the second day of the first month of February, in the long holiday of nearly two months, Chinese will complete the summary of the previous year and the planning of the New Year.
<h1>Usually, a bowl of Laba porridge actually hides several weights of Buddha's edge</h1>
The signal of entering the new year every year begins with a bowl of laba porridge. There have been many versions of the origin of Laba Porridge in history, the most widely spread and the most well-known of which is the Buddha's enlightenment.
Buddha Shakyamuni, in order to seek the true meaning of life and liberation from life and death, gave up his royal life and became a monk. He spent six years asceticism in the snow-capped mountains, often eating one wheat and one hemp. Later, it was discovered that asceticism was not the path to liberation, so he gave up asceticism and went down the mountain. Then a shepherd saw that he was weak, and she offered her with chyle. Shakyamuni's physical strength was thus restored, and he then meditated under the Bodhi tree for seven days, and on the eighth day of the first lunar month, he became a Buddha. After Buddhism was introduced to China, monasteries were built in various places, and the activity of cooking porridge to worship the Buddha also prevailed, especially on the eighth day of the first lunar month. This is the origin of Laba porridge.
Scene of porridge in the Shaolin Temple
As early as the Song Dynasty Elder Meng Yuanlao's "Tokyo Dream Record", it was described that the grand situation of the Lapa Festival at that time: "On the eighth day of the first month, there were three or five monks and nuns in the streets and alleys, praying to the Buddha in a team. Take a silver copper saloon or a good basin vessel, sit a gold copper or wooden Buddha statue, soak it with perfume, sprinkle with poplar branches, and pai men to indoctrinate. The great temples held a bathing Buddhist meeting and sent seven treasures and five flavors of porridge and disciples, called Lapa Eight Porridge. The people of the capital also eat porridge from fruit and miscellaneous ingredients. ”
Laba porridge, also known as "Seven Treasures Five Flavor Porridge"
In the Qing Dynasty, drinking porridge on the Eighth Festival of Lapa became an official directive. In the Qing Shi Encyclopedia's overview of the ritual system, it is written that "every year on the first two or three days of the eighth month of the lunar calendar), the Qing Dynasty Jingshi boiled lapa porridge in the Lama Temple, and rewarded the inside and outside of the palace. The porridge is boiled with two large porridge pots in the palace, each of which can hold 20 or 30 stones of rice, and this porridge sells 100,000 taels of silver every year. The porridge boilers were more than ten people who had undergone special practice in the palace; the prayers around the pot were used by many lama disciples; and the surveillance was sent to the Prince of Manchuria, Beyler. ”
The copper pot used to be used to cook porridge in the Lama Temple
The system of eight porridges in the Lama Temple mentioned here is also recorded in the "Records of the Yanjing Years" written by Fu Cha Dun Chong: "Lamas of the Lama of the Lama Temple boiled porridge for the Buddha on the night of the eighth day of the first month, and the special minister was sent to monitor it to show sincerity." Its porridge pot is so large that it can hold several stones of rice. At this time, drinking porridge on the Lapa Festival has become an important activity authorized by the government and personally supervised. This custom has been popular since the Qing Dynasty, and in previous years, we can still see the long queue of porridge drinking in front of the Lama Temple during the LapPa Festival. This year, due to the epidemic, the Lama Palace porridge was forced to be suspended. Although the congee friend Long Dragon is gone, I hope that the illness will dissipate soon.
In previous years, the lama and the palace porridge scene
"For porridge, yellow rice, white rice, rice, millet, diamond horn rice, chestnuts, red beans, peeled date paste, etc., are boiled in water, and the external dyeing of red peach kernels, almonds, melon seeds, peanuts, hazelnuts, pine nuts, and white sugar, brown sugar, and trivial grapes is used for spot dyeing." Just by seeing such a description, have you already suddenly felt that your lips and teeth are fragrant and your tongue is full of excitement? At this time, don't be ashamed, because the great literary scholar Shen Congwen, like you, saw the Laba porridge and also took root on the soles of his feet, and it was difficult to move.
"The little children who are just learning to call their fathers, the big children who will call the foreign car when they go out, the old children with many white beards grow on their mouths, and when they mention The porridge of Laba, who does not have a sweet and greasy feeling immediately on their mouths... Besides, the big bowl is filled with a large spoon and a large spoon into the mouth! ——Shen Congwen,"Laba Porridge"
Extremely rich porridge
<h1>From the northeast to Chaoshan, meet the porridge and meet each other</h1>
Drinking porridge has cross-regional consistency in the land of China. From the northeast outside Shanhaiguan to the Chaoshan mountains on the southeast coast. Porridge is one of the indispensable staple foods of Chinese. The porridge is coarse, the corn stubble is clear, and the belly is full of steaming under a bowl; the casserole porridge is dense, and all kinds of supplements are readily available, that is, tea rice and medicinal food.
Porridge with large ballast (dipping pickles are standard)
Casserole porridge (all kinds of aquatic products are readily available)
In Wuhu, Anhui Province, there is a Chinese Porridge Culture Museum. Here, all kinds of packaging, efficacy of porridge is readily available. Through cultural relics, texts, pictures and other forms, the origin, development and spread footprint of porridge culture are introduced in detail. One of the exquisite, may wish to take a look.
Anhui Wuhu China Porridge Culture Museum
As a food, the hunger-filling function of porridge goes without saying. In ancient times, whenever there was a natural disaster, the warehouse would be opened to release grain, and the porridge would be given for disaster relief, which showed the importance of porridge.
When hunger and cold are caused, a mouthful of hot porridge can save a person's life
<h1>Drink porridge, just drink a lonely</h1>
In April last year, Zhang Wenhong, director of the Department of Infectious Diseases at Huashan Hospital affiliated to Fudan University, made remarks about "no porridge in the morning", which once triggered a heated discussion on the Internet. Some people think that this is a sublime and flattering argument, abandoning the traditional food culture of the millennium. Subsequently, CCTV spoke out and supported, "Eating meat and eggs is better than drinking porridge, which is an objective fact." In fact, we do not need to demonize the matter of drinking porridge, and it is an indisputable fact that the nutritional content of white porridge is limited. Eating breakfast more nutritious and balanced will provide enough energy for the day.
Professor Zhang Wenhong's discussion on the issue of drinking porridge has aroused heated discussion
Although the nutritional content of white porridge is single, it does not hinder its medicinal value beyond hunger. The Qing Dynasty physician Zhao Xuemin had this record in his book "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Shi Zhen yue, according to: Luo Tianyi's "Treasure Book" Cloud: stem, corn porridge, thin qi and weak taste, yin in the yang. Therefore, the light infiltration downhill can be beneficial for urination. "Medical Tong" Cloud: One person is sick and does not take medicine. Yu Ling specializes in corn porridge and never tastes him. The rest of the month is reduced, and the rest of the month is healed. This grain cures the disease also. "It can be seen that drinking porridge is still good for health." In addition, in the "Compendium of Materia Medica", there are also more than fifty kinds of porridge medicinal value, such as mung bean porridge, antipyretic poison, quenching thirst; celery porridge, de-hot, sharp intestines; chestnut porridge, kidney tonic, waist and feet and so on.
Many porridges have medicinal properties
Nowadays, we no longer need to rely only on porridge to fill our stomachs, and we have more medical means to treat diseases and drive away diseases. But the ritual sense of drinking Laba porridge on the Lapa Festival still exists. We need this switch to light up the expectations for the Spring Festival. At the coldest moment of the year, warm your stomach and get ready for the New Year.
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Author: Guan Fu Tao Died
Producer: GuanFu Culture