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Originating from ancient times, Laba Festival is a sacrificial ritual used by the ancestors of the Central Plains to worship ancestors and gods, praying for a good harvest and good fortune.

According to the Ritual Records. The suburban special sacrifice records that the wax sacrifice is "the twelfth month of the year, gathering all things and asking for food." ”

The Xia Dynasty called Lari "Jiaping", the Shang Dynasty as "Qing Ceremony", and the Zhou Dynasty as "Big Wax"; Because it is held in December, it is called the month of wax, and the day of the wax festival is called the wax day. After the long river of changes, the period of 'Laba' is constantly changing, and after the Northern and Southern Dynasties, it is fixed on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month every year, called 'Laba'.

Over the years, the Laba Festival has become an important representative of traditional Chinese folk customs, and the descendants of Yan and Huang from the south to the north express their wishes for a better life in various ways on this day.

Originally, in the northwest of Yunnan, this festival was not paid much attention, after all, the customs and habits of the ethnic minorities here are quite different from those of the Central Plains civilization.

After the Xiao family moved from the Yangtze River basin to Ginkgo Village, they also brought the civilization and traditional customs of the Central Plains, and the Laba Festival became a more solemn festival in Ginkgo Village.

Every year on this day, every household in the entire Ginkgo Village will boil Laba porridge and prepare various sacrificial supplies, and from this day on, Ginkgo Village will begin to enter the countdown to prepare for the Spring Festival.

Although the importance of various traditional customs in the city is declining year by year, and the taste of the Spring Festival is becoming less and less, people still follow many traditional customs in Ginkgo Village. In the eyes of many people, this conservative force is undoubtedly a regression of social civilization, but it has well preserved the unique charm that cannot be purchased by the commodity society!

The various sacrifices of the Xiao family every year are carried out in the old mansion, and the people who are in charge are naturally the old lady and the old lady, and Xiao Feng and the others only need to do it.

Laba porridge, as the highlight of today, was naturally handed over to the experienced and young eldest sister, second sister, sister-in-law, second sister-in-law and others, and other young daughters-in-law and girls followed them to learn.

The ingredients used in the preparation of laba congee vary depending on the product from place to place, but rice, carrots and vegetables are the essential three treasures.

Xiao Feng took the time to go into the kitchen to take a look, the eldest sister had already prepared various materials such as peanuts, ginkgo seeds, soybeans, lotus seeds, fried tofu and so on, only according to the characteristics of different ingredients. Add them to a large pot and simmer over low heat.

From a certain point of view, the method of making zuò porridge is not difficult, it is more symbolic. People try to express people's joy at a good harvest and their hopes for the future by bringing together various ingredients.

Because the Xiao family has slaughtered too many black pigs this year, and marinated a large number of hams, bacon, sausages and pork ribs, the New Year pigs will not be killed. However, for this year's sacrifice. The old lady still decided to kill a sheep and use the whole sheep to worship the ancestors and various gods.

The Xiao family has always attached great importance to the sacrificial activities of the Laba Festival, and if there is no whole sheep for the sacrifice, it is essential to have at least a pig's head, a whole chicken, a whole duck and a whole fish, in addition, all kinds of dried fruits, fruits, snacks, preserved fruits and the like are also available.

After breakfast. Xiao Feng and Xiao Qiang rushed to the house of Xiao Siye, a professional sheep farmer, and pulled up a fat goat that had been selected, which will be one of the protagonists today.

Xiao Siye used to be the best hunter and medicine picker in Ginkgo Village and even the entire Biluo Snow Mountain, and after the ban on hunting for many years, he and his children and grandchildren herded sheep in a valley next to Jinghu Lake, and became a well-known sheep farmer.

In previous years, due to the inconvenient transportation of Ginkgo Village. There were no tourists coming, and Xiao Siye's sheep could only be sent to Yuji Town sporadically to be sold to second-class dealers or butchers, which was not only troublesome, but also not expensive.

The opening of the Mirror Lake Scenic Area made Xiao Siye's family fight a beautiful turnaround.

Because the goat meat in Xiao Siye's house is the most tender, every time the village organizes a bonfire party, the protagonist of roasting the whole sheep is raised by Xiao Siye's family.

After the second half of this year, the influx of tourists immediately made the local black goats in Xiao Siye's house a sought-after item. In the past few months, Xiao Siye has sold at least 2oo adult black goats, earning more than 1o yuan!

In fact, there are many families in the village who are also raising black goats of the same breed, but no matter the growth, meat quality or survival rate, etc., they cannot be compared with Xiao Siye's family, and tourists are specifying the products of Xiao Siye's house.

The old people of the village know it. Xiao Siye has a secret recipe handed down by his ancestors, and the water that feeds the goats every day is added to the medicinal soup made of various herbs, which can not only enhance the goat's disease resistance, but also increase the length of life. Improves meat quality.

Xiao Siye's goats not only do not have the smell of ordinary goats, but also have a faint fragrance of plants and trees, the meat is delicate, nourishing and warm, which can be described as the best among goats. It's a pity that Ginkgo Village is too far away from the city, and no matter how good the quality of the sheep raised by Xiao Siye is, it is not easy to sell, which is undoubtedly a pity.

Perhaps, with the opening of the Mirror Lake Scenic Area, this situation will be changed.

After the goat was brought back, the water in the cauldron on the dam had been boiled, and Xiao Jinhao was waiting with a ruler and a long dagger.

After the sheep blood is filtered to remove foreign substances such as blood foam and wool, a little salt is added to stand, and the haggis is chopped and fried for a while, and it is a bowl of delicious raw sheep blood.

Because Xiao Siye's goats eat herbs all year round, goat blood contains a lot of nourishing ingredients, eating raw goat blood can nourish yin and moisten the lungs and strengthen the body!

Drinking sheep's blood raw may seem to people in other places to be quite barbaric, but in Ginkgo Village, everyone has long been used to it. If you kill a sheep and don't drink the raw blood, you will feel a little uncomfortable, as if something is missing.

After the goat is shed, it is cut from the middle to maintain a complete shape, and then a variety of secret sauces are put on it, and the whole sheep is steamed in a large pot, which has become an important sacrifice for the Xiao family, and it is also a big dish that Xiao Jinhao is good at - steaming the whole sheep.

The key to steaming the whole sheep lies in the heat, sauce and the wine that the Xiao family has been cellaring for many years, all of which are indispensable, which is also one of Xiao Jinhao's unique skills that can have a high prestige in the rural banquet industry in Yunxi County.

In order to make this year's steamed whole sheep taste better, Xiao Feng secretly replaced the water in the steamer with a space spiritual spring, and the bursts of strong fragrance made Xiao Feng look forward to it.

In the evening, under the leadership of the old lady, the Xiao family first worshiped their ancestors in front of the ancestral tablets of the Xiao family, and then worshiped the door gods, stove gods and other gods in the fixed places of the old house. Subsequently, dozens of members of the Xiao family went to the Xiao family ancestral hall to worship the common ancestors of the Xiao family, and today's worship activities are over.

For Xiao Feng, he does not feel that this is a feudal superstition, on the contrary, he feels that this slightly cumbersome ritual can better enhance the cohesion and centripetal force of the family. The reason why the huge Xiao family is still able to maintain enough unity is that the annual collective sacrifice activities have contributed a lot.

Most of the various worships before the Spring Festival are based on each family, each house and each vein, and only the sacrifice on the first day of the Lunar New Year is the collective activity of the entire Xiao family. On that day, as long as the Xiao family can rush back, they will be there, and hundreds of people will crowd the entire ancestral hall, and the scene will be spectacular.

The old lady is already planning, this year's Spring Festival sacrifice activities must be grand, after all, the Xiao family is about to take off, as the patriarch, he wants to tell the ancestors the happy events of this year.

The festival ends before 6 p.m., after all, it gets dark early in winter in the mountains, and night begins to fall after 6 p.m.!

Almost at the same time, every household in Ginkgo Village is bubbling with a variety of rich, captivating aromas of food, and the villagers are celebrating the past year's harvest in this way.

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In Xiao's house, nearly 3o people surrounded the three tables firmly, and the lively atmosphere almost toppled the roof.

Because of the cold weather, Xiao Jinhao prepared a broth with pork bones and chicken racks, and prepared a steaming spicy hot pot, which can be regarded as one of the most popular dishes in the cold northwest Yunnan.

The vegetables used in the hot pot are harvested from the vegetable garden before the snow, and this heavy snow also reminds Xiao Feng that some greenhouses should be prepared in the coming year to ensure the supply of fresh vegetables all year round.

Cutting a plate of steamed mutton with skin and dipping it in a special spicy sauce, Xiao Feng only felt that his whole mouth was filled with solid mutton, and a feeling of happiness arose. Compared with roast mutton, steamed mutton is not greasy at all, and the strong sheepskin and delicate lean meat are added to the mouth-melting fat, forming a multi-layered taste that makes people want to stop.

Although it is not the first time that Xiao Feng has tasted this delicacy, he also has to sigh that the craftsmanship of the third master Xiao Jinhao is indeed worthy of its reputation!

Xiao Feng plans to wait for the Jinghu Scenic Area to get on the right track in the future and have a large number of customers, so that the third master can open a private restaurant in the village, which can not only show the third master's skills, but also further increase his income. In Xiao Feng's opinion, as long as he provides the third master with a variety of top-notch ingredients, his skills will definitely be able to improve by leaps and bounds and cook more delicious.

Xiao Jinhao is reluctant to enter the company or farm, and it is also a good idea to let him become the owner and chef of a private restaurant.

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After eating Laba porridge, it means that it has officially entered the preparatory stage of the Spring Festival, and every household begins to prepare New Year's goods to welcome the arrival of the new year.

Compared with the city that is open around the clock and has a dazzling array of cities, due to the inconvenience of transportation and material exchanges in northwest Yunnan, it is not easy for the villagers to prepare all kinds of New Year's goods. Even many mountain people with poor families still need to sell all kinds of mountain goods accumulated at home to the market in order to buy back the New Year's goods that they don't have.

At this time of year, Yuji Town, which is a seven-day gathering, has become the most important material distribution center in Shili and Eight Townships, where mountain people and traders from all over the world gather together, and at the same time carry out material exchanges, it also brings a strong festival atmosphere to this mountainous area!

For the people of the mountains, the bazaar is an indelible imprint!