Laba

Today is Laba, a friend wished me a happy Laba early in the morning. There is a saying that after Laba is a new year. It doesn't mean that the annual leave starts today, but that from this day, the preparations for the New Year's Day will officially begin, and then the cleaning, sacrificing, sending gods, cleaning, etc. will be done one by one, until the 15th day of the first lunar month, the Yuan Festival, the whole set. The New Year's ceremony has come to an end.

In this way, Laba is actually the beginning of a busy and tense state, and there is really nothing to be happy about. The head of the family has the burden of being the head of the family, the mother-in-law has the mother-in-law's worries, the daughter-in-law has the pressure of the daughter-in-law, only the children, the adults are too busy to take care of them, and they run around happily. This happiness has little to do with Laba porridge.

In my impression, Laba is rarely mentioned in the south, which is a typical northern festival. Although when I was a child, the TV media used to talk about Laba New Year's customs every day, a bowl of Laba porridge was crystal clear and delicious, and it was sweet just by looking at it, but these had nothing to do with most of my classmates, and they didn't eat it at home. Maybe it has something to do with the warmness of the south and the cold weather!

The grandmother is from the north, and this pot of Laba porridge is cooked, but it is not at all like the grandmother in the media. She skillfully knits a sweater by the stove and kindly tells stories to her grandson. Cook quietly, and finish the ceremony by serving two bowls of hot and sweet mixed bean soup. By the way, in retrospect, it was not the bowl of Laba porridge, but it was because I was brainwashed by the media when I was young, and I had too many fantasies and expectations for Laba porridge.

No matter what time in life, imagined beauty often makes people feel that reality is unacceptable. This may also be an education, waking up the child in advance.

It is not easy for a child to wake up. In a flash, he returned to the joyous atmosphere to play around and play with everything. Annoyed adults were beaten, beaten crying, crying stopped, and returned to his own world of joy.

When you wake up, you are a part of the adult world.

My grandmother has passed away, and she stopped cooking Laba porridge fifteen years before her death. The doctor said that the elderly can't eat that stuff. My uncle can't eat it when he dies, and neither can my father. My grandchildren are used to eating instant food in the world, so no one will eat this.

I woke up, grew up, and grew old.

But it's good to be happy. Holidays are the reason why we bless each other and make ourselves happy.

Happy Laba Festival!