On the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, also known as the Laba Festival, you must eat Laba porridge on this day. Legend has it that the origin of Laba porridge is due to a couple who did not know how to be frugal and hard-working. On Laba day, the family had no food left, so they could only cook it with eight kinds of beans. Satisfy hunger together.
Later, in order to remind themselves not to be indolent and indolent, so as not to end up starving to death in the end, every household cooked this kind of multigrain porridge on Laba day to commemorate it.
Legends are of course just legends, and the origin of Laba can only be speculated now, but the customs of the festival have been passed down, and the way Laba porridge is made is no longer an unpalatable grain, but an exquisite enjoyment.
Beijing is the birthplace of Banner culture, and Banner people don't have to produce hard-core crops to eat. They have money and free time for more than two hundred years, which is enough for these idle people to develop various sophisticated habits.
Let’s just talk about eating Laba porridge. Banner people make it the most delicate and complex. The fruits mixed with white rice include red dates, lotus seeds, walnuts, chestnuts, almonds, pine nuts, longans, hazelnuts, grapes, ginkgo, water chestnuts, etc. Green hair, roses, red beans, peanuts... no less than twenty kinds in total.
From the evening of the seventh day of the twelfth lunar month, people start to get busy, soaking rice, picking beans, removing cores, peeling... Then they simmer slowly over a low fire for an entire night, and when they have a bowl of fragrant Laba porridge in the morning of Laba, they are done. Sprinkle a spoonful of sugar on it, and pay attention to the fact that it is boiled rock sugar, preferably the purest rock sugar produced in Ryukyu.
God knows how the Ryukyu people produce it. The rock candy cubes are as clear as crystal.
If you think this is the most exquisite way to eat? That is absolutely wrong. For truly wealthy people, such as royal palaces and palaces, the dried fruits they eat must be carved.
Walnuts, peanuts, hazelnuts, dried almonds and the like need to be carved into animals and plants, and at the very least some patterns need to be carved on them. If conditions permit, fruit lions are also made, which is made by carving several types of dried fruits and then dipping them together with syrup. Looks like a little lion.
When you are eating the eight-treasure porridge, a little lion will stand in your bowl. It is delicious and beautiful. This is the most typical example of the pain in the egg.
The festive atmosphere in Sijiu City this year is far greater than in previous years, because the agreement reached between Lotte Bank and the Ministry of Household Affairs has allowed paper bonds to enter the circulation field. A large number of officials and Eight Banners disciples have received a lot of arrears, which makes Su Ling People who have been around for a long time suddenly burst out with strong purchasing power.
How can eating Laba porridge be considered a festival? Every household has to get some chicken, duck, fish, and fatty elbows to be considered a festival. Anyway, the bonds in hand can be spent. If we don’t turn them into things quickly, what if they can’t be used that day? Isn’t it a big loss? .
This is not the idea of one or two families. The entire Four-Nine City has such worries, because all the idle people know that the imperial court is stubborn with Xiao Letian again.
On the morning of Laba Festival, the idle men finished drinking Laba porridge at home, ate a plate of pork belly, and went to the teahouse with oily mouths. As soon as they entered the teahouse, they opened their mouths and started shouting, "Young man... I'll make a pot of Yan for you." Come on... Damn that prodigal old lady of mine. She stews meat early in the morning. I wonder if I want to cleanse my stomach these two days?"
As soon as he finished saying this, another Eight Banners man carrying a bird cage walked in through the curtain, "Boy... hang up my oriole... give me a pot of Tieguanyin, and keep it cool... go and remove the grease, This morning is both sweet and greasy, who can bear it..."
This group of idle Eight Banners men have to use this method to reveal what they ate this morning. No one in the old teahouse knows that these people have two ounces of sesame oil in their stomachs, so they won’t reveal it. He said with a smile and cupped his hands.
"Good morning, Mr. Ding! You are so lucky..."
"Oh...well done to Mr. Ma, you are also lucky..."
"How is your old man?"
"Okay...how is your old lady?"
"Okay...how is your wife?"
"Everything is fine, everything is fine...how is your young lady?"
"Toefl, everything is fine... your whole family is fine..."
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This is a typical greeting routine in old Beijing. If you don't say it to everyone in your family, it won't be complete. Moreover, there are certain things to pay attention to. It's not just a slap on the horse-hoove sleeves. You have to touch the shoulder with one hand on the ground and bend the knee.
Just like the Western kissing ceremony, when two people kiss each other, their right shoulders should be close together. It is best to touch. This is the way of kissing good friends. Although it is verbose, it is not decent.
A real waiter in a teahouse must have a good eye. He cannot serve the tea just after the guests have asked for it. You have to wait and let them finish all the etiquette before serving the tea, otherwise who will be responsible for it being cold by then.
The shopkeeper who was doing the accounting at the counter curled his lips and said with a smile that this was all for free. Thanks to Xiao Letian, he was able to make up more money for the young and old. Now everyone has the energy to give Lao Li'er. In the past, there was always a lot of trouble. During Mao's years, 70% of the flag pay was suddenly deducted. I couldn't even eat the mixed noodles and steamed buns. I still had some spare money to drink Yan tea?
If we go further forward, when the British and French invade Beijing, the flag pay has stopped, and we don’t have money to buy firewood even if we want to drink boiled water. How can we still pay thousands at that time? You're so hungry that you can't even get off the bed.
The shopkeeper pulled the last abacus with a click, and then said to the two gentlemen with a smile, "Master Ding, Second Master Ma... please don't be polite, hurry up and sit down and have a drink... I will put the chessboard for you." How about killing two rounds? Oh, Er Ye, your pair of lion heads are amazing, red as agate and as smooth as jade... You have to open my eyes!"
This is the virtue of teahouses. Everyone has to be polite when speaking, and they must use their politeness to the extreme. Only after they have been criticized can they talk about serious matters.
"Hey, you two masters, you are good at eating hard-core crops, such as walnuts, thumbs, caged birds... Big bowls of tea and rotten pork noodles are not taken seriously. You eat braised pork early in the morning. This is really what you have cultivated in your previous life. What a blessing..."
"However, you two have great powers, and nothing in the Qing Dynasty can be hidden from you... Can you please tell me, can I still get the bonds issued by Lotte Foreign Company? How can I do it so well? I have become stubborn with the court, why do you think people have been so angry in the past two years..."
If you don't talk about the flag man, you have to hold it up and talk about it. You have to set up a ladder for him and let him climb up first. Whoosh, whoosh, he's on the flagpole. Then you take the ladder away. After so many flattery words just now, this At that time, he couldn't even think about it.
In fact, many secrets of the imperial court were leaked out in this way. There are many disputes among idle people. It is precisely because they are so idle that they care about the flattery of others. Sometimes they share the secrets of the imperial court, not necessarily for money, but sometimes just for the sake of money. For the sake of face.
Ding Sanye and Ma Erye were put on the flagpole like this. They smiled and waved their hands in a mysterious manner, "If it comes out of my mouth, it goes into your ears, but don't talk about it outside! This is what we have done for dozens of people." We have been friends for many years, if others don’t even want to know..."
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