Taste of the Year: Jade Jasper---Laba Garlic
Overview
Along with eating Laba porridge and soaking Laba garlic in Laba, the flavor of the new year is getting richer and richer. Speaking of Laba garlic, according to the old man, the word "garlic" for Laba garlic has the same pronunciation as the word "shuang". This is the day when all businesses close their accounts. Calculate the income and expenditure of the year, and you can see the profit and loss, including foreign debts and foreign debts. All must be calculated clearly on this day. This is what Laba calculation is all about. On Laba day, a creditor who wants to pay a debt has to deliver a message to someone who owes him money, so he should be prepared to pay back the money. There is a folk proverb in Beijing: Laba porridge, Laba garlic, those who pay debts deliver letters, and those who owe debts pay back. Later, some people who owed money to others used garlic instead of counting to express their taboo and avoid the counting character for settling accounts. In fact, what you owe others must be paid back after all. There is also a saying: It is said that it is very embarrassing for people who did business in the early years to come to ask for accounts at the end of each year. A shrewd businessman had an idea. On Laba day, he pickled a lot of small jars of garlic. When the debt was due at the end of the year, he took a small jar of Laba garlic to the debtor's house and asked what he was missing for the New Year. Short of what? I just didn’t mention the matter of collecting accounts. When I got there, I took out a small jar and said, it’s the Chinese New Year and I don’t have anything to bring with me. I brought a jar of Laba garlic and I wanted to have a good meal of dumplings during the Chinese New Year. Because garlic has the same pronunciation as calculation, the debtor naturally thought that everyone had worked hard for a year and it was time to settle the debt, so he took the initiative to settle the debt. This incident became popular as soon as it spread to ten people and hundreds of people. However, this Laba garlic has continued to this day, and has lost its original meaning of collecting accounts. Instead, it adds a festive color to the festive atmosphere of the Spring Festival.
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Ingredients
Steps
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Peel off the skin of garlic and break into small cloves.
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Place the garlic cloves in a glass vessel and pour vinegar to cover the garlic cloves.
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Cover and seal, store in a cool place, and wait for about 10 days before the garlic turns green.
