LabaFestival is a traditional Chinese holiday celebrated on the eighth day of the
twelfth lunar month. It’s a day for
celebrating harvest, offering sacrifices to ancestors, and worshiping gods. But
above all, it is a day for cooking Laba Congee, a hodgepodge of
grains, beans and dried fruits used to invoke peace and good fortune.
Chinese people believe that eating congee during Laba
festival will bring good luck. Laba Congee is infused with Chinese people’s beautiful expectations of a happy life.
Folktales abound as to the origins of
eating congee during Laba Festival. According to the most famous one, the
founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu
Yuanzhang (reigned
1368-1399), used to herd cattle for a rich man. One day, his carelessness
caused a leg of one of the cows to be broken. The rich man was so angry that he
locked up the culprit in a small room and didn’t allow food to be
given to him. After some time, the famished Zhu Yuanzhang found in a corner of
the room a rat hole that contained a supply of stolen red beans, rice, red
dates and other produce. These he boiled into congee, on which he feasted
voluptuously. Because that day was the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month,
the emperor Zhu Yuanzhang named the congee Laba Congee.
In North China there is a custom of pickling garlic
in vinegar on Laba Day. After some pickling, the garlic will turn green. This
pickled garlic goes very well with dumplings. In Chinese, the words “garlic” and “calculate” have the
same pronunciation; therefore, eating garlic on Laba Day is symbolic of
reckoning the year’s income and
expenses as year-end approaches.
Because northerners like foods made from wheat flour, they
eat Laba noodles on Laba Day
In some areas, people boil five kinds of beans and make a
dough in the shape of sparrow’s head on the
eighth day of the 12th lunar month. They believe if they eat “sparrow heads”, the
sparrows will have headaches and not harm their crops in the coming year.
No matter what is the originate is, the festival is to deliver the best wishes to all friends and family. All stuff from Hebei Feixiang Roll Forming Machinery give the best wishes to you!
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