Lao She's Laha congee is not congee but a small agricultural exhibition. Laoshe's Spring Festival in Beijing has a line "This is not congee, but a small agricultural exhibition. The agricultural exhibition refers to the many varieties of rice, beans, and dried fruits in the congee, as if they were gathered together for an exhibition. The author used the expression "to make an analogy" to vividly and imaginatively write out the old Beijing Spring Festival porridge this folklore characteristics.

The scene of Laha Festival and drinking Laha congee in old Beijing jumps off the page. The Lapa congee in Lao She's writing is a kind of porridge made of various ingredients. "The traditional ingredients of Laha congee include rice, millet, corn, barley, jujubes, lotus seeds, peanuts, cinnamon and various kinds of beans.

Laha congee

Laha congee on the day of the custom of drinking Laha congee, Laha congee is also known as "seven treasures and five flavors of porridge". Before the Tang Dynasty, there was no poetry about Laha congee, but in the Song Dynasty, Laha congee began to appear in the poetry.

For example, Lu You wrote in "December 8, step to the West Village": "Lunar wind and the intention of the spring, because of the scattering of the policy over my neighborhood. I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to get a good look at this, but I'm sure I'm going to be able to get a good look at this," he said. The only thing I need is medicine for my many illnesses, and it is the idlers who have not yet made any move in their studies. The Buddha's congee is given to me this morning, and I feel that the festival in Jiangcun is new."

The poem says this morning drank the monastery house porridge, not hungry, mood gradually good, think we have this riverside village grass and trees are sprouting, some of the new spring scene it.

See the custom of drinking congee should be the earliest began in the Song Dynasty, has a history of more than a thousand years. Dream sorghum recorded: "the eighth day of this month, the temple is called Lahai. Dasha and other temples, all set up five-flavored porridge, called 'Lahai congee'; also set up red bad, with bran milk fruit bamboo shoots taro for the monks, or feed sandalwood Shi, your house and other families."