Will "Great Cold" meet "Lapa Ba"? Lapa Food Row warmly welcomes the New Year

Today (January 20th) our country entered the Great Cold Festival, as the name suggests, the Great Cold means that the weather is extremely cold. Coincidentally, today is also the traditional festival Lapa Festival, the big cold meets Lapa Ba, will it be colder? How to eat such an important day? China Weather Network explains the cold weather in detail, and launches the Lapa Eight Food Ranking, Lapa Porridge, Lapa Rice, Lapa Tofu... There's always one for you.

"Big Cold" begins with a chill in Jiangnan to experience the warmth of early spring

The cold season, most parts of the country into the mid-winter season, the north often has cold air south, the northeast, Xinjiang area of the snow is frequent, the snow is deep, travel to beware of road ice. In the area of North China and Huanghuai, during the intermittent period of cold air influence, fog and haze often appear, and visibility is low.

In the south, the humidity in Sichuan and Chongqing is large, and it is easy to have heavy fog in the morning and evening, and even low visibility weather such as strong fog and extra strong fog. In the Jiangnan area, due to the frequent cold air, rain and snow often come to disturb, and the feeling of wet and cold is particularly obvious.

But this year's cold is a warm opening, China Weather Network meteorological analyst Gao Fei introduced, in the coming week, the cold air force weakened, most of China's temperature is high, especially this day and tomorrow, all places will quickly warm up. Today, the maximum temperature in many parts of Jiangnan will reach about 20 °C, which is equivalent to the level of early and mid-April of the year, and the local area has felt the warmth of early spring in advance.

For the northern region, the overall temperature shows an upward trend, but the cold air is in the needle, from the 24th to the 26th, the cooling range of parts of northern Xinjiang, northern North China and northern Northeast China has a cooling range of 6 to 10 °C, accompanied by 5 to 6 northerly winds; at the same time, there will be small to moderate snow or sleet in the western part of Jianghan in the northwest region, north China, northeast China, and western Jianghan, and local heavy snowfall.

While the strong southerly air current brings warmth, it will also make the precipitation in the south more frequent, and from the 21st to the 23rd, the south of the Yellow River will usher in a large-scale precipitation process, which is conducive to alleviating the current drought in South China, Jiangnan and other places. From the 27th to the 28th, there may still be precipitation processes in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. Overall, from the 21st, the rainy weather in the Yangtze River Basin will gradually become a regular visitor, and sunny days will become a rare visitor.

Only drink porridge on the eighth festival? Rice Noodles Tofu... disagree

The first day of this year's cold coincides with Lapa Ba, as the saying goes, "After Lapa Ba is the year". The Lapa Festival opens the prelude to the Chinese's New Year and is also the first important festival in the Waxing Moon. Drinking Laba porridge on this day is the traditional custom of our country, in fact, in addition to Lapa porridge, Lapa has other delicacies, do you want to try it today?

Lapa Porridge: On the day of Lapa Ba, drink a bowl of sweet and delicious Lapa Porridge, indicating that the next year's days are peaceful and prosperous. Lapa Porridge is undoubtedly the first place in the ranking of Lapa Cuisine.

Although the whole country drinks porridge, a closer look will find that the content of porridge in all parts of the country can be described as varied and competitive. There are dried fruits such as dates, lotus seeds, walnuts and other dried fruits added to the rice, and there are raisins, white fruits, green silk, and roses, and these accessories are no less than twenty kinds, in short, they are a family.

Lapa Garlic: Lapa Festival is one of the few festivals in the north that does not eat dumplings, but the people in the north still can't forget their beloved, Lapa Garlic is born for the Spring Festival dumplings. In the north, especially in north China, it is necessary to soak lapa eight garlic in the Lapa Festival. High-quality garlic is soaked in traditional rice vinegar, and the garlic slowly turns green, and finally the whole body is turquoise, and the color is emerald. When opened and taken out during the Spring Festival, the aromas of garlic spicy and acetic acid are skillfully integrated, and they are the best companion for dumplings.

Lapa Rice: The third-ranked Lapa Rice uses the same ingredients as Lapa Porridge, except that the porridge is replaced by steamed rice. Steam the soaked rice and beans for about an hour. Sprinkle some white sugar or brown sugar out of the pan, and the sweet and soft glutinous rice is ready.

Laba Noodles: In Guanzhong, Shaanxi Province, a steaming bowl of Laba noodles is eaten on the Lapa Festival. Stir-fry vegetables and meat to make a bun and add a spoonful of noodles when eating, which is delicious and delicious.

Sticky fire spoon: "Lapa Lapa Eight, freeze off the chin", in the northeast Lapa eight is in the ice and snow, so to eat some sticky food to stick the chin, the sticky fire spoon came into being. Sticky fire spoons are made with glutinous rice, sticky sorghum rice, rhubarb rice or small yellow rice, and filled with bean paste and sesame seeds. The skin is sticky, the filling is sweet and rich in nutrients.

Laba tofu: Anhui Qianxian folk flavor specialty, and we usually eat white tofu is different, Lapa tofu first made of soybeans into tofu, and then smeared with salt water outside, and finally placed in a ventilated place to dry. Because of the addition of salt, pepper, five-spice powder, etc., the flavor is rich and delicious.

Laba Bing: Is it the first time you've heard of eating ice during the festival? In some parts of Qinghai, there is a custom of eating ice in Laba. The day before Lapa Ba, people usually use steel basins to scoop water to freeze, and when they reach Lapa Ba, they will break the frozen ice into pieces. It is said that "after eating Laba Ice, there is no stomachache for a year", which means to eliminate diseases and disasters.

The Great Cold and Lapa Have Arrived, Will the Spring Festival Be Far Away? With Lapa as the prelude, we can take advantage of the good weather to prepare New Year goods, and the "New Year's taste" is becoming more and more intense.

Source: China Weather Network