Eight-treasure porridge, also known as Laba porridge and Buddha porridge, is a traditional festival food in China. It is a kind of porridge cooked with various ingredients in Laba Festival. In the Old Wulin Story written by China literati in the Southern Song Dynasty, it is said that "porridge made of walnuts, pine nuts, milk, persimmons and chestnuts is called Laba porridge".

The original meaning of "eight-treasure porridge" refers to porridge made from eight different raw materials. But today. Many "eight-treasure porridge" use more than eight kinds of materials. ?

"Eight-treasure porridge" generally takes japonica rice, glutinous rice or black glutinous rice as the main material, and adds auxiliary materials, such as mung beans, red beans, lentils, white lentils, red dates, peach kernels, peanuts, lotus seeds, longan, pine nuts, yams, lilies, medlar, gordon euryales and coix seed. People in different parts of China choose different materials according to their dietary preferences.

Different brands of cans have different materials for "eight-treasure porridge". But there are basically four kinds of raw materials: rice, beans, dried fruits and Chinese herbal medicines. Cooking at home is "eight-treasure porridge", sometimes chestnuts, carrots, sausages, bacon and so on are added.