Do you eat Laba porridge or youth league in the slight cold season?

Drinking Laba porridge in the slight cold season is one of the traditional customs in China. Legend has it that Laba Festival originated from ancient sacrificial ceremonies. People would cook porridge with various grains and fruits to worship ancestors and gods and pray for a bumper harvest and happiness in the coming year. With the passage of time, this custom gradually evolved into the custom of drinking Laba porridge in the slight cold season.

Drinking Laba porridge in the slight cold season also has auspicious meaning. Because "Eight" represents auspiciousness, happiness and smoothness in China culture, drinking Laba porridge is also regarded as a ceremony to pray for good luck and happiness. Laba porridge, also known as Qibao Wuwei porridge, Buddha porridge and everyone's rice, is a kind of porridge made of various ingredients. The Qing Dynasty's Fangxian Annals (Volume 11) and customs called it Laba Festival.

Other traditional customs of slight cold solar terms

1, eat glutinous rice

In Guangzhou, Han Xiao wants to eat glutinous rice in the morning. Glutinous rice is not just boiled glutinous rice. It will be served with fried "bacon" (commonly known as sausage and bacon in Guangdong), coriander, chopped green onion and other materials, which tastes particularly fragrant. "Leaving fragrance" is essential for cooking glutinous rice. On the one hand, it is high in fat and cold-resistant; On the other hand, glutinous rice itself is sticky, and rice smells heavy. It needs some oil to mix the flavor.

2. Count the winter of 99-99.

The number nine, also known as winter nine nine, is an ancient folk method to calculate cold weather. The method of counting cold weather with nine has been passed down from mouth to mouth in China, which has a history and lacks records. As for the origin, there is no exact information. Count nine songs: "1929 didn't shoot, walked on the ice in 3949, watched willows along the river in 5969, opened the river in 79, swallowed it in 89, and added 19 in 99, plowing cattle everywhere."

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Slight Cold