What is the origin of Lapa Porridge:

The origin of Lapa Porridge comes from Buddhism. According to Buddhist records, Siddhartha Gautama had practiced asceticism for many years before he became a Buddhist, and was so broken that he realized that asceticism was not the way to liberation, and decided to give up asceticism.

At this time, he met a shepherd's daughter who presented him with milk, and after eating it, he regained his strength and sat under the Bodhi Tree in contemplation, and "became a monk" on December 8th. To commemorate this event, the Buddhists held a puja on this day, making congee with rice and fruits for the Buddha.

The significance of the congee is:

1, to get rid of epidemics to meet the auspicious, before the custom of red beans to beat the ghosts, in order to cope with epidemics of ghosts, the eighth day of the first month of the month of the congee with red beans.

2, do not forget to maintain thrift and frugality, looking forward to the next year, food and clothing. Legend has it that someone in the Western Jin Dynasty was lazy, and then changed his ways and made congee every Lunar New Year's Eve.

3. It is a blessing for others and a merit for oneself, and Buddhist congee also represents health and good luck.

The legend of Laha congee:

Laha Festival is the eighth day of the month of Lunar New Year (December), the legend originated at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty, it is said that Zhu Yuanzhang fell in the prison suffering, when it was cold, cold and hungry Zhu Yuanzhang even from the prison rat holes shaved to find out some red beans, rice, jujubes and other seven or eight kinds of grains and cereals.

Zhu Yuanzhang these things into a porridge, because that day is the eighth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, Zhu Yuanzhang will be beautifully named this pot of grain porridge for the congee of the eighth day of the lunar calendar. The company's website has been updated with the latest information on the company's website, including its website. Later, Zhu Yuanzhang pacified the world, sitting in the north towards the south as the emperor, in order to commemorate that special day in prison, he then set the day as Lahai Festival, the day he ate mixed grain congee formally named Lahai congee.