Origins of LABA porridge

In lunar December 8, Chinese people used to boil LABA porridge, which is called "LABA Festival ". There are various stories about the origins of LABA porridge.

Saturu saturah Saturday is a Buddhist festival. Before Sakyamuni became a Buddha, he went out to do his work. After six years of hard work, he went hungry and exhausted. A shepherd gave him a milk-(milk porridge), recovered his physical strength, washed away the dirt on his body, and finally became a Buddha under the bodhi tree. Buddhism regards this day as a "Taoist Festival ". Buddhism in India is a descendant of China. Chinese Buddhists believe that Sakyamuni became a Buddha in the eighth day of December (that is, lunar December. In ancient times, on this day, all the temples should follow the story and follow the examples of the shepherd's offering of milk catalogue. It is known as LABA porridge, which is made of various sweet grains and fruits.

The sacrifice of wax gods and Han Dynasty was originally set to be the wax Festival Day on lunar December 8. On the day of LABA, In order to sacrifice the La gods, the folks often have to prepare a porridge with a certain flavor. This kind of porridge is mixed with peanuts, chestnuts, red dates, Walnut Kernels, almonds, cooked with micro-fire, and then add brown sugar, made into eight-color porridge, called "Laban porridge ". After the porridge is boiled, a few bowls of porridge should be first placed on the patio of the courtyard, on the Grinding disc, and on the doors of the ox, horse, and sheep pigsty to celebrate the harvest and celebrate the good fortune. It can be seen that the "LABA porridge" at that time had nothing to do with Buddhism, and it was our own traditional day of worship.

To commemorate Yue Fei's Song Dynasty national hero Yue Fei, he insisted on fighting against gold and was framed by Qin Yi, a traitor. The Court won 12 gold medals and called Yue Fei to enter Beijing. Yue Fei is helpless, and he is in a hurry. The people heard the news, the households sent porridge meals, Yue Jun mixed food, thank you and go. This is July 22, lunar December 8. After Yue Fei was killed, the people burned "hundred meals" every year in lunar December 8 ".

The Emperor's porridge was spread in Anhui Province when the emperor drank LABA porridge: Zhu yuanmiao was poor at home when he was a child and put cattle in his home. He often get scolded and hungry. Once upon a time, the old buffalo fell under the bridge and broke his leg. The rich man kept him in a room and refused to eat for three days or nights. He was hungry and found a rat hole. He dug out and found a mouse granary with rice, beans, corn, pearl rice, and red dates ...... Everything. He cooked these things into a pot of porridge and thought they were more sweet than anything else. Later, Zhu yuanqi beat the world and became an emperor. After a night, Zhu yuanqi remembered the porridge and sent it to the royal kitchen to cook porridge with various grains and grains, this day is July 22, lunar December 8. Therefore, we are enlightened by the name of "LABA porridge ".

"LABA porridge, not enough to eat, eat LABA porridge to harvest ". Lunar December 8 is a traditional Chinese folk holiday-"LABA Festival ". When Guanzhong arrived this day, every household had to cook a pot of "LABA porridge" and enjoy a meal. Not only do adults and dolls eat, but also feed animals, chickens, and dogs, and wipe some on the door, walls, and trees.

The tradition of eating "LABA porridge" for "LABA Festival" has been around for a long time and has been emerging since the time that humans entered the agriculture community. In ancient times, "La" refers to sacrifices. As far away as the Shang Zhou era, our country has the habit of Offering Sacrifices to heaven and earth, gods, and ancestors. This kind of comprehensive sacrifice is called a "sacrifice ". This kind of sacrifice expresses a kind of simple and kind psychological activity of the ancient people. It means that, from the beginning of the year, you can get enough food for the peasants. Thank the gods! Therefore, we chose to cook the "Laban porridge" pot on July 15, lunar December 8 to pay homage to the gods and celebrate the harvest. We wish you a better harvest in the coming year. This forms the habit of eating LABA porridge on LABA festival. During the inheritance process of the laba festival, there was another legend that said that Sakyamuni, the founder of Buddhism, had eaten porridge made by a girl playing the goat with Apple glutinous rice on the day of August 1, lunar December 8, and had to become a Buddha under the bodhi tree. For those who believe in Buddhism in future generations, on October 16, lunar December 8, they read through the scriptures and eat porridge, which adds a religious color to the lable festival. In any case, people eat LABA porridge to celebrate the harvest.

"LABA porridge" does reflect a great harvest of agriculture, because it uses a variety of rice (jiangmi, yellow rice, white rice, sorghum rice, etc.), a variety of beans (soy, yundou, cowpea, etc ), it is a kind of porridge that combines various dried fruits (such as jujube, Chestnut, almond, peanut, walnut, and guiyuan meat) with bean curd and meat. People in the Guanzhong area and nearby areas all pay great attention to the "LABA Festival ". However, county and county, township and township, and village are different. Farmers in Fuping County like to make wine this day. The name is "Wax feet". The ancient customs of Chang 'an County need to cook meat on this day and scatter it on the flowers and trees "; qianxian County, liquan district, pay attention to the LABA festival to send porridge to the elderly, female family to invite new son-in-law to eat porridge; Fengxiang area is to use yellow rice and eight kinds of beans, with oil and salt to cook a Laban meal; in the rural area of Tongchuan, the habit of shaving hair for young men and girls still exists on this day. All these have different interests.
In lunar December 8, Chinese people had the habit of eating LABA porridge. It is said that LABA porridge is transmitted from India. The father of Buddhism, Sakyamuni, was the son of the king of the final meal of the gviro Wei (now in Nepal) in Northern India. He saw all sentient beings suffering from illness and death, and he was not satisfied with the supernatural power of the Brahman at that time, give up the throne and leave the house to do his deeds. There was no harvest at the beginning. After six years of hard work, on October 8, the Buddha was enlightened under the bodhi tree. In the past six years of hard work, only one drop of rice is consumed every day. Future generations will not forget his suffering. In lunar December 8 every year, they will eat porridge as a souvenir. "La ba" became "Buddha's birthdate ".

LABA is a grand Buddhist holiday. In the past, the Buddhist temples in various regions were used as a bath and Buddha meeting to hold the Buddhist scriptures and follow the legends of Sakyamuni before they became a road. The shepherd girl presented the milk catalogue and served the Buddha with porridge such as sweet valley and fruit ". And Will Labe porridge to the disciples and good men and women, then in the folk customs. It is said that some temples were hand-held by monks before lunar December 8, and along the street, the collected rice, Chestnut, jujube, nuts and other materials were boiled into LABA porridge and distributed to the poor. It is said that after eating, you can get the blessing of Buddha, so the poor call it "Buddha porridge ". Southern Song Dynasty luyou poetry cloud: "The current Buddha porridge more feedback, anti Jue Jiang village festival new things ." It is said that there is a "Stack building" for storing leftovers in the famous temple in Hangzhou. at ordinary times, the temple monk dried the leftovers daily and accumulated the remaining grain for one year. By lunar December 8, it was made into LABA porridge and presented to its followers, "fushou porridge" "Fufu porridge" means that after eating, you can increase your life. It can be seen that the temples loved the virtues of food at that time.

LABA porridge is made from red beans and glutinous rice in ancient times. Later, the materials gradually increased. The South Song people carefully wrote the old martial arts: "Porridge with walnut, pine nut, milk mushroom, persimmon mushroom, persimmon Chestnut and so on, that is, 'laba porridge '". So far, people in South China, Northeast China, and northwest China still retain the Convention of eating LABA porridge, which is rare in Guangdong. Different materials are used, and the porridge is made from glutinous rice, red beans, dates, chestnuts, peanuts, ginkgo, lotus seeds, and Lily. It can also be cooked with longan, longan, And candied fruit. Eat a bowl of steaming LABA porridge in winter. It is both delicious and nutritious, and can indeed increase life. (China Spring Festival Network)

Local porridge

In lunar December 8, la is the first festival before the Spring Festival. LABA has been eating LABA porridge for thousands of years in China.

It is said that in the northern part of ancient India, in southern Nepal today, there is a net rice king in gviro Wei, and he has a son named joamo sidado, when he was young, he was deeply touched by the troubles of life, life, old age, illness, and death. He found that social life was futile and he was extremely dissatisfied with the power of the Brahman. So when he was 29 years old, he abandoned the luxurious life of the King family, went home to learn and practice yoga, and had been suffering for six years. In around 525 BC, one day, he had completely realized the Tao and created Buddhism under the bodhi tree of Buddha Gaye. Shi Chuan, this day is China's lunar December 8, because he is a member of the Sakyamuni, and later the Buddhist people called him an Sakyamuni, that is, the meaning of the Sakyamuni sage. After Buddhism was introduced into our country, the construction of temples and the activity of porridge and Buddha worship were also prevalent, especially in the lunar December 8 S. On the day when the shrine to Sakyamuni was entered into practice, all the temples had to hold Buddhist scriptures, and follow the legend of the female offering a kind of "milk" in front of the Buddha to cook porridge and worship Buddha. This is the origin of LABA porridge.

Song Dynasty Wu zimu prepared "Dream Liang Lu" Volume Six: "eight days, the temple called the 'labar '. Dasha Temple is equipped with five-flavor porridge, which is called 'laban porridge '." At this time, LABA porridge has become a folk food standard, but the Emperor also used it to attract public ministers. Sun guoyu, the Yuan-man, made a "Yindu tour zhi" cloud: "In December 8, I sent baiguan porridge to combine rice and fruit. ." "Yongle" describes "the eighth day of the month, called the eighth day of the Zen family, boiled through the bad porridge to serve Buddha and rice ". By the time of the Qing Dynasty, the three-year (December 1725 AD) Shi Zheng changed the mansion to the east of the guozi Supervision Office in Beijing's dingmen to the Yonghe Palace. on the eighth day of the Qing Dynasty, he went to the Wanfu pavilion in the palace, cook LABA porridge in a pot and invite the Lamas to cook the porridge. Then, they will be given to the ministers of the royal palace for a taste of the festival. "Guang Xu shun Tianfu zhi" and cloud: "Every year on October 8, lunar December, Yong and Guan Tang porridge, customized, sent to the Minister for monitoring, cover for meals ." LABA porridge is also called "Qibao porridge" and "Wuwei porridge ". The earliest LABA porridge was made with red beans. After its evolution, it gradually became more colorful with its local characteristics. The Southern Song Dynasty literati carefully wrote the old martial arts: "using walnut, pine nuts, milk, persimmon, chestnut porridge, that is, LABA porridge ." In "Yanjing's age note", qingren fucha dunchong called "LABA porridge, Which is cooked with yellow rice, white rice, jiangmi, Xiaomi, lingjiao rice, Chestnut, peeled jujube puree, and water, it is characteristic of Beijing City.

The porridge in Tianjin is similar to that in Beijing, more exquisite addition of lotus seeds, Lily, pearl rice, Italian kernels, barley kernels, sticky glutinous rice, sticky yellow rice, yundou, mung bean, longan meat, longan meat, ginkgo, red dates and sugar sweet osmanthus, etc, excellent color, fragrance, and taste. Black Rice has been added in recent years. This LABA porridge can be used for diet, and has the following functions: Spleen, appetizing, invigorating qi, calming down, clearing heart, nourishing blood, etc.

Shanxi's LABA porridge, also known as babao porridge, is dominated by millet, accompanied by cowpea, small beans, mung beans, jujube, and sticky yellow rice, rice, jiangmi and so on. In the southeastern part of Shanxi Province, in lunar December 5, xiaodou, hongdou, cowpea, sweet potato, peanut, jiangmi, and persimmon were used to combine water to cook porridge, which is also called Sweet Rice.

In the northern Shaanxi Plateau, in addition to a variety of rice and beans, porridge has to be mixed with various dried fruits, tofu and meat to cook. It is usually cooked in the morning, or sweet or salty, depending on the user's taste. If you eat at noon, you need to cook some noodles in the porridge. After eating, you will also need to wipe porridge on the door, the stove and the trees outside the door to drive evil spirits to avoid disasters, to meet the next year's agricultural harvest. According to the legend of the people, on the day of LABA, we should not eat food, saying that we had eaten many weeds in the place of lychee. The Southern Shaanxi people LABA should eat porridge, divided into "Five flavor" and "Eight flavor. The former is boiled with rice, glutinous rice, peanuts, ginkgo and beans. The latter uses the above five ingredients to increase diced meat, tofu, radish, and condiments. In addition to porridge, people also use porridge to worship their ancestors and granaries.

Gansu traditional boiled LABA porridge with grain, vegetables, after cooking in addition to family eating, also sent to the neighbors, but also to feed livestock. In Lanzhou and Baiyin City, LABA porridge is well-prepared and cooked with rice, beans, red dates, ginkgo, lotus seeds, raisins, dried apricots, dried melons, Walnut Kernels, shredded blue, white sugar, diced meat, etc. After being cooked, it is used to worship the door god, the kitchen god, the Earth god, and the God of Wealth. Pray for the next year's good weather and good fortune. Then it is shared with the neighbors and the last family. Wuwei district, Gansu Province pays attention to "Surabaya", eat rice thick rice, lentils rice or thick rice, after cooking with fried seeds, twist, eat the same, folk Customs call it "lentils porridge ".

The following example shows how to cook a LABA rice by using lentils, soy beans, red beans, broad beans, black beans, rice, and potatoes. Then, you can use the wheat flour or buckwheat flour to cut it into the "Wheat Ear" of the diamond willow leaves ", or make it into a small round egg "queer head", before the pan re-entry chopped green onion oil. On this day, the whole family only eats LABA meals instead of food.

Many people in Xining, Qinghai Province, are Han Chinese, But Laban does not eat porridge, but wheat kernels. Cook the New wheat kernels with beef and mutton, add salt, ginger, pepper, caoguo, Miao Xiang, and other condiments, boil them overnight, and combine the meat and wheat into milk, in the early morning, the food is delicious.

In the "Kong Fu Food System" in Shandong province, there are two types of "LABA porridge". One is made of rice kernels, longan, lotus seeds, Lily, chestnuts, red dates, and glutinous rice, add "Porridge fruit" in the bowl, which is mainly carved into various shapes of fruit, is for embellishment. This kind of porridge is exclusively for the master of Kong Fu and the master of the 12th house. The other is made of rice, meat slices, cabbage, and tofu, which are made for the Dangdang people in kkong.

Henan people eat LABA rice, which is made from eight ingredients, including millet, mung bean, cowpea, wheat kernels, peanuts, red dates, and corn. After cooking, add brown sugar and walnut kernels, it is a good idea for us.

The porridge in Jiangsu province is divided into two types: sweet and salty. The cooking method is the same. It's just that the porridge is made of vegetables and oil. The porridge made by Suzhou people should be filled with mushrooms, water chestnut, Walnut Kernels, pine nuts, hazelnut grains, red dates, chestnuts, fungus, vegetables, and Flammulina velutipes. Li Fu, a scholar in Suzhou in the Qing Dynasty, once had a poem: "porridge on the October 8, passed from the Vatican kingdom, Qibao mealu reconciliation, mixed with spiced flavor ."

Zhejiang People usually use walnut kernels, pine nuts, glutinous rice, lotus seeds, red dates, longan meat, lychee meat, etc. It is sweet and delicious. It is said that this porridge method was spread from Nanjing, which contains several legends.

There are many people in Sichuan, and there are a wide variety of porridge practices, sweet and salty, while rural people eat a lot of salty flavor, mainly made of soy beans, peanuts, diced meat, white radish, carrots. People from different villages come here to taste it. Although it is common, it is hard to get used to it. Nowadays, there are many urban people who eat porridge in different flavors. LABA is closely related to porridge, and its consumption level is also good.

Chinese people love LABA porridge so much, and there are some scientific reasons in addition to food customs. Cao Yanshan, a nutritionist in the Qing Dynasty, wrote the "Community score", which gives a detailed and clear explanation of the fitness and Nutrition Functions of LABA porridge. It regulates nutrition and is easy to absorb. It is a "therapeutic" product, there are stomach, spleen, nourishing heart, Clearing Lung, benefiting kidney, ligan, quenching thirst, eyesight, laxity, and soothe the nerves. These have been confirmed by modern medicine. For the elderly, LABA porridge is also a beneficial food, but you should also pay attention not to drink more. In fact, it is more than LABA. It is helpful for the elderly to drink porridge. There are also many varieties of porridge, which may vary from person to person and can be selected as needed. (Renewal hotline)

Labe bean curd

"LABA tofu" is a special folk flavor of Qixian County, Anhui Province. On the eve of the Spring Festival, LABA, that is, around lunar December 8, all households in Qixian County need to produce tofu, this naturally-baked bean curd is called "Labe bean curd ".

Emerald green garlic

It is a convention in North China, especially in North China. As the name implies, garlic is brewed on the day of lunar December 8. In fact, the material is very simple, that is, vinegar and garlic. The practice is also extremely simple. Put the peeled garlic petals in a sealed jar, bottle and other containers, then pour the vinegar, seal the mouth and put it in a cold place. Slowly, garlic soaked in vinegar will turn green, and eventually become green, like emerald Jasper.

Cook "Five beans"

In some places, porridge is not called "LABA porridge", but "Five beans". In some cases, porridge is made on LABA day, and in some cases, porridge is made on January 1, lunar December 5, you also need to squeeze some "Queer heads" on the surface and cook them in the same way as rice and beans (five kinds of beans. It is said that the labba people eat "birds head", Sparrow headaches, do not harm the crops in the next year. This kind of "Five beans", in addition to self-food, is also given to neighbors. It is a symbol of having more than one year to eat hot food and eat it in lunar December 23.

Labe noodles

In some places in northern China that do not produce or produce less rice, people do not eat Labe porridge, but Labe noodles. The next day, I made a batch of fruits and vegetables and cooked the noodles. By the morning of October lunar December 8, my family had eight noodles.
The most important holiday in lunar December was in lunar December 8, which was known as "la ri" in ancient times and also known as "LABA Festival ". From the Pre-Qin Dynasty, the lable festival was used to sacrifice the ancestors and gods and pray for good harvest and good fortune. It is said that the saturamuni, the founder of Buddhism, was also on February 1, lunar December 8. Therefore, LABA is also a Buddhist holiday, known as the Buddhist saturay festival ".

LABA has the habit of eating LABA porridge on this day. LABA porridge is also called "Qibao Wuwei porridge ". China has a history of drinking LABA porridge for more than one thousand years. The earliest started in the Song Dynasty. On the day of LABA, no matter whether it is the court, the government, the temple or the Limin's home, it is necessary to make LABA porridge. In the Qing Dynasty, the customs of drinking porridge were even more prevalent. At the court, the Emperor, the queen, and the Emperor shall give LABA porridge to Minister Wen Wu and the attendant, and give rice and fruit to each temple for the monks to eat. In the civil society, family members also need to make Laban porridge to sacrifice to their ancestors. At the same time, family members can eat together and give gifts to friends and family members.

The scheme of LABA porridge in various parts of China is a great competition and a wide variety. Among them, Beiping is the most exquisite, and there are many items in the white rice, such as red dates, lotus seeds, walnuts, chestnuts, almonds, pine nuts, longan, hazelnut, grape, ginkgo, edges, shredded blue, Rose, red beans, peanuts ...... There are no more than 20 types in total. People started to get busy on the evening of June lunar December 7. They washed rice, soaked fruit, peeled, de-core, and seed and then started cooking in the middle of the night, and then made a slight fire stew, until the early morning of the next day, LABA porridge is cool.

More exquisite people, but also first to the fruit carved adult shape, animals, patterns, and then in the pot to cook. The special feature is to put "goshi" in LABA porridge ". The fruit lion is a lion-shaped object made of several fruits. It uses the crispy dates dried from the jujube kernel as the lion's body, half of the walnut kernels as the lion's head, peach kernels as the lion's feet, and sweet almonds as the lion's tail. Then stick together with sugar and put it in a bowl, like a little lion. If the bowl is large, you can set it to a pair of lions or four lions. More exquisite, it is to use jujube mud, bean paste, yam, hawthorn cake and other foods with a variety of colors, into eight immortals, old life star, Luo Han statue. This decorative LABA porridge can only be seen at the serving table of the former great temple.

After the LABA porridge is boiled, you should worship the ancestor first. If you want to present your friends and friends, you must send them out before noon. The last is for the whole family. The remaining porridge is preserved for a few days, but it is a good sign, taking its meaning of "more than a year. If you give porridge to poor people, it is better for yourself.

LABA porridge also plays a role in the civil society. If flowers and fruit trees are planted in the yard, some lable porridge will be applied to the branches. I believe that more fruits will be formed in the next year.

On the day of labba, in addition to offering worship to the ancestors, there are also mourning for the dead country and mourning.
October 8, lunar December is the lable festival in China. In rural China, there are still many farmers who keep drinking "LABA porridge" on this day. (Lunar December, also known as lunar December: At that time, farmers were not allowed to go out for farming, but to cook bacon, sausage, and other foods at home ).

It turns out that "LABA porridge" is not a common porridge. there is a story behind it ......

Once upon a time, the old couple and the young couple lived happily. The old couple love the young couple very much and never let them do anything because they are afraid of getting tired. As a result, the young couple made up their mouths and reached out all day, so they could not do anything.

Later, the old couple died. Because the couple were not able to work, they sat down and ate all the food in the house. Finally, they even sold the house, leaving only half of the grass shed. Winter is coming, and the couple are frozen and hungry, hiding in the grass shed trembling. By the day of July lunar December 8, they were so hungry that they had to get rid of a little grain from the corner of the straw shed and cool it up. When they were about to eat porridge, suddenly a strong wind blew down the grass shed, and the couple were crushed to death.

People know this story. To let the children remember this lesson, on October 11, lunar December 8, they spent a pot of porridge together with various grains to share the story.