Meaning: warmth, perfection, harmony, auspiciousness, health, convenience, gratitude, joy, and connection.

On the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, Chinese people have the custom of eating Laba porridge. It is said that Laba porridge came from India. The founder of Buddhism, Sakyamuni, was originally the son of King Suddhodana of Kapilavastu in northern India (now in Nepal). Seeing that all living beings were suffering from birth, old age, illness, and death, he was dissatisfied with the theocratic rule of Brahmins at that time, so he gave up his throne and became a monk to practice Taoism. There was no harvest at first, but after six years of asceticism, on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, he enlightened and became a Buddha under the bodhi tree. During these six years of asceticism, he only ate one hemp and one meter a day. Later generations will not forget his suffering and eat porridge on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month as a commemoration. "Laba" has become the "Anniversary of Buddha's Enlightenment".

"Laba" is a grand Buddhist festival. Before liberation, Buddhist temples in various places held Buddha bathing meetings and chanted sutras. They also imitated the legend of the shepherdess offering chyle before Sakyamuni attained enlightenment. They used fragrant grains, fruits, etc. to cook porridge for the Buddha, which was called "Laba porridge". He gave Laba porridge to his disciples and faithful men and women, and it became a custom among the people. It is said that before the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month in some temples, monks hold alms bowls and go alms along the streets, cooking rice, chestnuts, dates, nuts and other materials collected to make Laba porridge and distribute it to the poor.

It is said that after eating it, you can get the blessing of Buddha, so the poor call it "Buddha porridge". Lu You's poem in the Southern Song Dynasty goes: "Nowadays, Buddhas feed each other more porridge, while Juejiang Village keeps new things." It is said that there is a "restaurant" for storing leftovers in Tianning Temple, a famous temple in Hangzhou. Normally, the monks dry the leftovers in the sun every day and accumulate a On the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, the surplus grain of the year is cooked into Laba porridge and distributed to believers. It is called "Fushou porridge" and "Fushou porridge", which means that after eating it, it can increase happiness and longevity. It can be seen that the monks at that time cherished the virtue of food.