the laba Rice Porridge Festival

In the north of our country, there are "children don't you greedy, after the laba is the year" said, the laba means opened the New Year's prelude. Laba Festival, or the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, is also known as "Talisman Festival", "Buddha Daoism Festival", "Daoism meeting", etc. Originally a Buddhist festival to commemorate Sakyamuni Buddha's enlightenment, it gradually became a folk festival.

Eating Laba porridge is a traditional custom on Laba Festival. Laba porridge, also known as "seven treasures and five flavors porridge", "Buddha porridge" and "Everyone's meal", is a porridge made from a variety of ingredients. In the north of China, every Laba Festival, every family is busy peeling garlic to make vinegar, soaking Laba garlic, eating Laba noodles Laba porridge. Laba is rarely mentioned in the south. Laba Festival is a typical festival in the north.