Is it very cold on Laba Festival every year? After the Laba Festival is cold, isn't it so cold in the New Year?

Yes The seventh and eighth day of the twelfth lunar month is the coldest time of the year, and it will be so cold that people's chins will freeze off.

But this is a bit exaggerated, mainly to highlight the cold weather on the seventh and eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. In order to keep out the cold, the ancients would drink Laba porridge on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, that is, Laba Festival, thinking that they could keep out the cold and would not freeze their hands and feet all winter. It can be seen that Laba is considered to be the coldest time of the year in many places.

It's still very cold after Laba.

Actually, this is normal. After all, La Djulash and Barra are very close, and they are also in the cold weather on the 29th or 30th. It is strange that they are not cold.

Common ingredients of Laba porridge in different regions

Although the ingredients of Laba porridge in different regions are different, they basically include cereals such as rice, millet, glutinous rice, sorghum rice, purple rice and coix seed, beans such as soybeans, red beans, mung beans, kidney beans and cowpeas, and dried fruits such as red dates, peanuts, lotus seeds, medlar, chestnuts, walnuts, almonds, longan, raisins and ginkgo.

Laba porridge is not only a seasonal food, but also a good health care product, especially suitable for maintaining the spleen and stomach in cold weather.