On the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, also known as Laba Festival, you must eat Laba porridge on this day. The legendary origin of Laba porridge is because a couple who do not know how to be frugal and hardworking have no surplus food on Laba on this day, so they can only use eight kinds of beans to fill their hunger.

Later, in order to remind themselves not to be lazy and not to get a tragic ending of starving to death during the Chinese New Year, every household cooked this kind of mixed grain porridge on Laba Day as a commemoration.

The legend is of course the legend. The origin of Laba is only speculation, but the customs of festivals have been passed down, and the way Laba porridge is no longer a poor grain, but a delicate enjoyment.

Beijing is the birthplace of banner people's culture, and banner people do not produce hard-core crops to eat. More than 200 years of wealth and leisure time is enough for these people to develop various exquisite habits.

Let’s talk about Laba porridge. The ones cooked by the bannermen are the most exquisite and complex. The fruits mixed in white rice include red dates, lotus seeds, walnuts, chestnuts, almonds, pine kernels, longans, hazelnuts, grapes, ginkgo, water chestnuts, black hairs, roses, red beans, peanuts... There are no less than twenty kinds in total.

From the evening of the seventh day of the twelfth lunar month, people start to be busy, soak rice, pick beans, remove the core, peel them... Then slowly boil them over low heat, and boil them for a night. When the bowl of fragrant Laba porridge in the morning of Laba is finished, sprinkle a spoonful of sugar. It is important that people cook rock sugar, and it is best to be the purest rock sugar produced in Ryukyu.

God knows how the Ryukyu people produced it, and the rock candy pieces are crystal clear and crystal-clear.

If you think this is the most important way to eat it? That is absolutely wrong. For example, the dried fruits that people eat must be carved.

Walnuts, peanuts, hazelnuts, dried almonds, etc. should be carved into animals and plants, and some patterns should be carved. If conditions permit, fruit lions should be made. Several types of dried fruits are carved, and then syrup is dipped together to make a little lion.

When you eat Eight Treasure Porridge, a little lion stands in your bowl, it is delicious and beautiful. This is the most typical example of idle pain.

The festive atmosphere in Sijiu City this year is far beyond that of previous years. Because the agreement reached by Lotte Foreign Company and the Ministry of Revenue has allowed paper bonds to enter the circulation field, a large number of officials and the Eight Banners children have received a lot of debts, which has caused people who have been alive for a long time to burst out with strong purchasing power.

How can I just eat Laba porridge be considered for the holiday? Every household has to make some chicken, duck, fish and meat, and fat elbows be considered for the holiday. Anyway, the bonds in my hand can still be spent. If I don’t turn them into something, I’m going to lose money if I can’t use that day.

This is not the idea of ​​one family and two families. The entire Sijiu City has such concerns, because all the idle men know that the court has become stubborn with Xiao Letian again.

In the morning of Laba, the idle men finished drinking Laba porridge at home, ate a plate of pork stewed, and went to the teahouse with their oily mouths. As soon as they entered the teahouse, they started shouting, "Waiter... I'll make a pot of scent for my master... The old man who is a prodigal girl in my family stews meat early in the morning. I wonder if I want to clear my stomach these two days?"

Just after this, another eight-flag master carrying a bird cage walked in with a curtain, "Waiter... Hang up my yellow oriole... Let me make a pot of Tieguanyin, just like a little... Get off the greasy, it was sweet and oily early this morning, who can bear it..."

These idle and painful Eight Banners men had to show what they ate this morning in this way. Who in the old teahouses didn't know that there were two taels of spice oil in their stomachs, and they didn't even slighten the teahouse and bowed and said with a smile.

"Mr. Ding San! You are lucky..."

"Oh...Hello, Mr. Ma, you are lucky too..."

"Hello, your old man?"

"Okay... your old lady is good?"

"Okay...Hello...Hello your wife?"

"Everything is good, all is good...Hello your lady and son?"

"TOEFL, it's all good... You and your whole family are all good..."

...

This is a typical routine of paying peace to old Beijing. If you don’t say it all over your family, it won’t be over. Moreover, there are also some specialties in hitting a thousand. It’s not just hitting a horse’s hoof sleeve. Just hitting a knee with one hand, you have to touch your shoulders.

Just like the Westerners’ vest gift, the two of them hit a thousand and their right shoulders were pointed together. It would be best to touch them. This is the way for good brothers and good buddies to hit a thousand. Although it is long-winded, it is not decent.

The real waiter in the teahouse must have a wink. The guests cannot just finish the tea. You have to ask them to finish all the etiquette before serving the tea, otherwise if they are cold, then who will be the one who will be?

The shopkeeper who settled the accounts at the counter smiled and said that this was all idle. He entrusted Xiao Letian's blessing and made more money for all ages. Now everyone is full of energy. In the past, when the fucking Changmao, he was deducted 70% of the banner salary at once. He couldn't even eat a lot of mixed noodles and steamed buns, and he still had spare money to drink Yan tea?

If you turn ahead, when Britain and France enter Beijing, the price of the flag was stopped. If you want to drink boiled water, you don’t have the money to buy firewood. At that time, you will still be fed thousands of times? You can’t even get off the kang if you are hungry.

The shopkeeper clicked the last abacus, and then smiled and said to the second masters, "Master Ding San, Ma Er... Don't be polite, hurry up and drink... How about I put a chessboard on you and kill two games? Oh, your pair of lion heads are amazing, red as red as agate, moist as jade... You have to open my eyes!"

The teahouse has such virtues. When everyone speaks, they have to hold it and say it. They must give full play to their politeness. Only after they have a bad reputation can they talk about serious things.

"Oh, my second master, you are good at eating hardcore crops, walnuts, finger rings, and birds in cages... I don't take the big bowl of crumbled noodles seriously. I eat pork early in the morning. This is really a blessing I have cultivated in my previous life..."

"However, you two have great powers, and you can't hide the matters in the Qing Dynasty... You can reveal it, can you still take the bonds issued by Lotte Foreign Company? Why have you been stubborn with the court again? You said why are people so angry in the past two years..."

If you don’t talk about the bannerman, you have to hold it up and say it. You have to set up a ladder for him and let him climb up first. Then you can remove the ladder. After eating so many flattering words, he can’t get down at this time.

In fact, many secrets of the court were leaked like this. There are many idle people who are troubled. It is precisely because they are so idle that they care about other people's flattery. Sometimes they talk about the secrets of the court, which is not necessarily for money, but sometimes for face.

Mr. Ding San and Mr. Ma were just put on the flagpole. The two of them smiled and pretended to be mysterious. "Tell me, let me hear you, don't talk outside! This is our decades of friendship. If others think about it, they won't know..."

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