Eating ice on Laba Festival is a custom in some areas.

Because of the cold winter, most of the food eaten is hot and dry. On Laba Festival, eating some ice properly can not only enjoy the fun out of season, but also gather together the excitement of the festival.

As the saying goes, "If you can't make it in the coming year, you should look at Laba ice first". In most areas, you will drink Laba porridge on Laba Day, while in some areas, you will choose to eat ice cubes on Laba Day. Healthy adults can eat ice in moderation, but eating ice will make the body feel cold. If you can't eat ice, it is not recommended to try to eat ice. Compared with eating ice, you can eat some foods that moisten and clear fire, such as honeysuckle, white radish, tremella and other ingredients.

Eight legends and stories about the origin of Laba Festival:

Laba Festival is the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, which originated in the late Yuan Dynasty and the early Ming Dynasty. It is said that when Zhu Yuanzhang was in trouble and suffering in prison, it was cold and hungry, and Zhu Yuanzhang actually dug out some seven or eight kinds of miscellaneous grains such as red beans, rice and red dates from the mouse hole in the prison. Zhu Yuanzhang boiled these things into porridge. Because it was the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, Zhu Yuanzhang called this pot of miscellaneous grains porridge Laba porridge. I enjoyed a delicious meal.

Later, Zhu Yuanzhang settled the world and became emperor, facing south. In order to commemorate that special day in prison, he designated this day as Laba Festival, and officially named the miscellaneous cereal porridge he ate that day as Laba porridge.