Every time on the eighth day of the first month of the twelfth month of the lunar calendar, it is commonly known as Lapa Ba, which is the first traditional festival of the Waxing Moon, which is of great significance, and every household begins to prepare for the New Year from this day on. The customs of each different place are also different, which also includes the diet of Lapa Ba, so what does Lapa Eat? Eat these 7 kinds of traditional food is the right, eating according to the times means good, let's take a look at it.
1. Laba porridge
Drinking Laba Porridge in The Lapa Festival has become one of the main ways for people to celebrate the Lapa Festival, and the history of drinking Lapa Porridge in China has been more than a thousand years. In the past, people drank Lapa Porridge with a lot of exquisiteness, and after Lapa Porridge was boiled, they should first worship the gods and ancestors. If you give porridge to poor people to eat, it is even more to accumulate virtue for yourself, so Laba porridge is also called "Fude porridge". The earliest porridge was boiled with red adzuki beans, which evolved and gradually became colorful with local characteristics. Now the eight treasure porridge can choose their favorite grains, increase or decrease at will, preferably more than eight, corresponding to the "eight" of Lapa Ba, which means auspicious.
2、 Cook "five beans"
Some places eat at the time of the Lapa Festival are called boiled five beans, and from the name, it can be seen that there are five kinds of beans, plus rice, and after cooking, they are eaten in their own homes, and they are also given to each other by neighbors. Using these beans to herald a full and happy New Year's life, while also praying for the coming year to be smooth and rainy, and the grain is abundant.
3. Lapa garlic
Most parts of North China use vinegar to soak garlic on the eighth day of the first lunar month, called "Lapa Eight Garlic". Bubble eight garlic to use purple skin garlic and rice vinegar, the garlic cloves to the old skin, immersed in rice vinegar, into the small altar sealed, soaked in vinegar garlic will become green, and finally will become the whole body turquoise, garlic itself after soaking, will become less stimulating, slightly spicy and refreshing, very appetizing, is the best condiment for eating dumplings, mixed with cold vegetables can also be used.
4. Lapa tofu
Lapa tofu is one of the traditional folk snacks in Yixian County, Anhui Province, in the eighth day of the first month of the Waxing Moon, every household has to dry tofu, the folk will be this kind of dried tofu called "Lapa Tofu". The production process of Lapa Tofu is basically the same as ordinary tofu, but after the finished product, after squeezing and special seasoning, it is slowly baked under the mild winter sun, so that the salt is gradually inhaled, and the moisture is gradually dried, that is, it becomes Lapa Eight Tofu, the finished product is yellow and moist as jade, the entrance is soft, the taste is salty and sweet, fragrant and fresh.
5. Eight noodles
In the Chengcheng area around Weibei in Shaanxi Province, the Lapa Festival generally does not drink porridge, and every year on the morning of the eighth day of the first lunar month, every household eats a bowl of Lapa noodles. Lapa noodles evolved from Lapa Porridge, so it is generally boiled into a bowl of hot noodles on the morning of Lapa Bajie with eight kinds of vegetables plus unique meat.
6. Wheat kernel rice
Mai Ren Rice is a traditional Dish of Qinghai Cuisine. On the seventh night of the first lunar month, the newly milled wheat kernels are boiled with beef and mutton, plus green salt, ginger skin, peppercorns, grass fruits, seedlings and other condiments, and boiled overnight, the wheat kernel rice is fragrant and very delicious. According to Qinghai legend, the eighth day of the twelfth month of the lunar calendar is the day of Shakyamuni's enlightenment, before the enlightenment, there were shepherd women who offered chyle and made porridge with fragrant grain and fruits for the Buddha, and that porridge was wheat kernel porridge, which became the "Laba Porridge" in Qinghai later.
7. Eight beans
Lapa bean is one of the traditional foods in Hunan Province, China, has a history of hundreds of years, Lapa bean because of the pickling in the wax moon and got its name, the traditional practice is to put the steamed soybeans in a sealed container, the use of microorganisms present in nature fermentation and pickling. After the soybeans are pickled and fermented, they have a unique flavor and are easier to digest and absorb. The resulting eight beans are delicious and delicious, and they are very delicious for stir-frying and stewing.