How do Chinese celebrate Laba Festival?

2025.01.05

Laba Festival, which is the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month every year, is the predecessor of the ancient La Day. It is an important year-end sacrificial day in ancient times. At first, there was no fixed time. It was not until the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties that it was fixed on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. The eighth day of the twelfth lunar month is also a Buddhist festival to commemorate the enlightenment of Sakyamuni Buddha. Later, it gradually became a folk festival. It is also called "Fabao Festival", "Buddha Enlightenment Festival", "Enlightenment Meeting", etc.

In northern my country, there is a saying that "children, don't be greedy, after Laba, it's the New Year." Laba means the beginning of the New Year. Every Laba Festival, people in northern China are busy peeling garlic to make vinegar, soaking Laba garlic, and eating Laba noodles and Laba porridge. In the south, Laba is rarely mentioned, and Laba Festival is a typical northern festival.

In our Shaanxi province, after Laba porridge is cooked, it must be given to relatives and friends before noon. Finally, the whole family eats it. If there is any left over after a few days of eating, it is a good omen, which means "abundance every year". If the porridge is given to poor people, it is even more of a virtue for yourself. In some places where rice is not produced or produced in small quantities, people do not eat Laba porridge, but Laba noodles. Use various fruits and vegetables to make saozi, and roll noodles. On the morning of the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, the whole family eats it together.

On the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, the atmosphere of the New Year becomes stronger day by day. In most areas of North China, there is a custom of soaking garlic in vinegar on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, which is called Laba garlic. Laba garlic is soaking garlic on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, which is a custom in North China. The ingredients are vinegar and garlic cloves.

In Chengcheng area in the north of Wei River in Shaanxi Province, people usually do not drink porridge on Laba Festival. Every year on the morning of the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, every household will eat a bowl of Laba noodles.

The noodles and various beans (mainly red beans) are used as raw materials. The noodles need to be made into chive noodles (noodles with the same width as chive leaves) for later use; the red beans are soaked overnight in advance and used to make soup on Laba Day. When the water boils, turn to low heat until the red beans are cooked, and cook the noodles on medium heat. At the same time, stir-fry the chopped green onions with cooked oil, and pour the chopped green onion oil into the pot after the noodles are cooked.

Laba Festival is here, I send you a bowl of hot Laba porridge, I hope your life is as sweet as this porridge, and your career is as smooth as this porridge. I wish you a happy Laba Festival, and a better future in the New Year!

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