Porridge is usually prepared on the seventh or even the sixth day, beans are soaked early, and porridge is cooked early on the eighth day. Beijing porridge is mainly made of rice, beans and dates. There are rice, millet, yellow rice, and barley rice, and there are four or five kinds of beans. The same is true for mung beans and red porridge, whether it is sweet or salty. There are differences in customs between north and south, between urban and rural areas, and differences in individual tastes. As the saying goes, it is also difficult to adjust one's opinions. Laba porridge is porridge made from a variety of food materials on Laba Festival. The sadder the farmers are, the more they cook their harvested dried grains into Laba porridge to celebrate the hard work of the year and pray for a bumper harvest in the coming year.

Yang's Laba also eats Laba porridge, and I haven't tried salty taste, because everything I eat is sweet. Because of the cold weather, I always feel that the hot and sweet taste can make people feel warm. Peanut, jujube, adzuki bean, kidney bean, glutinous rice, black rice, longan and Bailaba porridge are cooked differently in different places, and the ingredients added are also different. For example, for sweet tastes, beans, red dates, etc. are usually added. Everyone in each family has different preferences and different ingredients, but the constant ones are definitely grains (rice) and sugar. Speaking of the difference in the taste of Laba porridge between the north and the south, there is still a distinct difference. The sweet Laba porridge is the main one in the north. When I was a child, I was most looking forward to a bowl of porridge in Laba. The abundance of ingredients and delicious taste were in the past when material resources were scarce.

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According to the Records of Wangfu Life in Qing Dynasty, "beans and dates are mixed, and rice and fruit are cooked together", which is "coarse porridge". This is not up to grade, so that ordinary people eat. The nobles of the princes and grandchildren ate "thin porridge", which is also called "whole porridge". They separated red beans and red dates. Our Laba porridge here is sweet, because there are red dates, and people like me who prefer to eat sweet need to add a spoonful of sugar or rock sugar. The sweet Laba porridge when I was a child, on the morning of the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, my mother wakes me up after cooking, and I have to get up again when I am lazy.