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        After two days is the lunar calendar, the day the laba festival is a Chinese ancient folk festival, its origin has for a long time, until now, has the rich cultural connotations. Laba this day, people use of farm produce cowpea, glutinous rice, sorghum, peanut, walnut, big red dates, and other grains and dried fruit, boiled down to a delicious laba rice porridge. Its beautiful color, sweet taste, nutrition and varied. People are enjoying the happy life, also entered the laba festival's long history and culture. 
 
        "December" and "lunar month", the two meanings in the same and the literal is irrelevant. Ancient times, the end of age with a beast hunt a big sacrifice, the ritual activities, called "la" or "wax". Zhou Chaoshi, ancestor worship, called "la", worship the gods called "wax", collectively known as "la" when qin and han dynasties. , "la" were held in the twelfth lunar month, people will be referred to as the "lunar" of December. Month, there are many names, such as the tail and head of the, wax, till, poor winter winter, ice month, more than month, a month, qing si, winter grain, lv, etc., these different names have reason, the most popular people are most familiar with is "lunar month". Ancient Greek festival this day is called "LaRi", dynasty called "LaRi" "jia ping," shang said "si", the zhou dynasty is called "big wax". LaRi of pre-qin period after the winter solstice of the third day of the northern and southern dynasties to fixed in the day. 
 
        In ancient times, the day is "LaRi", people to worship. One to worship our ancestors, and two tribute to the gods, praying for longevity, refuge ChengXiang. There is an important content, is the spirits to avoid disease, in order to peace health, this activity is prevalent in ancient times. Time, forward the connotation of the laba festival evolved slowly. The laba festival held year-end ritual, for and ancestors sharing joy, every family prepares a meal, enjoy heartily joyfully. This day to eat rice, commonly known as "laba rice" or "laba porridge", the laba festival also had the ingredients of happiness. In the song dynasty, the folk, stewing laba rice porridge on the laba festival not only food, some gift friends and relatives. In the Ming dynasty, it gained favor in the emperor's reward high market. Especially in the qing dynasty, drink the wind of laba porridge is more prevalent. Laba rice porridge was gradually evolved into a kind of folk custom to celebrate the harvest, the symbol of the good crop weather, the grain and make it plentiful and became popular all over the country. 
 
        The Chinese cultural connotation of the laba festival is so deep, the masterpiece of the ancients left many on the laba festival and laba rice porridge. Beiqi Wei Shou wax section poems said: "cold coagulation forced qing si, have spread in jia ping. Night at heart by what way, by the feeling of comfort." Tang dynasty poet du fu "LaRi" yue: "LaRi warm all the year round is still far away, this year LaRi frozen whole. Infringe the snow color also day lilies, leakage spring have the wicker. Drink for good night drunk, early HaiGu zichen toward." Xia Renhu in qing dynasty wrote a poem "laba" : "laba every cook porridge, secretary, special to the harmony and. St kind also is the Buddha, JinFeng decocted into the second pot." Beiqi Wei Shou wax section of qing si, jia ping, is refers to the ancient LaRi. Qing dynasty Xia Renhu "laba" describes the laba day, folk every family eat boiled laba rice porridge, porridge to serve the emperor of the qing dynasty also want to the lama temple Buddha and reward ministers, the king and princess. 
 
        On the laba festival, there is a legend. That year, yue fei directed against gold in immortals township, came as a bitter winter, YueGuJun and clothing, poverty, and all the people have porridge. YueGuJun feast on a people send "thousand porridge", the results of victory, this day is the eighth of December. Yue fei died, people in order to commemorate him, every day, with grains, beans cooked porridge. Is just a legend, but it expresses people's patriotism and miss of loyal minister yue fei. 
 
        But the past "records:" with walnuts, pine nuts, mushrooms, persimmon, persimmon chestnut, mushrooms, such as do porridge, called "laba porridge"." Laba rice porridge, now raw material is very rich, rice, glutinous rice, beans, chestnuts, almonds, lotus seed, walnut meat, big jujube, longan pulp, peanuts, gingko, lily, etc all can into the porridge, choose a few samples, optional collocation. Our country is a large country, and the laba festival custom is varied. Laba this day, in addition to drink laba rice porridge, some places still feed laba rice porridge to jujube, says the people look forward to the harvest. Laba rice porridge and regions don't drink, only eat laba face, laba bean curd, and curing of laba garlic, pickled good laba garlic, such as the Spring Festival when eating dumplings to eat. 
 
        The laba festival opened the prelude of the Spring Festival, from this day, people started to buy necessities and to meet the annual Spring Festival.
 
 
 
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