After drinking Laba porridge for a few days, it will be twenty-three miles.
Twenty-three honeydew melons are sticky Clean the house twenty-four
Twenty-five make tofu. 26 Cook cook the meat.
Kill 27 chickens and make 28 noodles.
Twenty-nine steamed stuffed buns, thirty a night, and a twist on New Year's Day.
Origin:
Laba Festival is the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month (December), which originated in the late Yuan and early Ming Dynasties. It is said that when Zhu Yuanzhang was in trouble and suffering in prison, it was freezing. The hungry Zhu Yuanzhang actually found some seven or eight kinds of miscellaneous grains such as red beans, rice and red dates from the mouse hole in prison.
Zhu Yuanzhang cooked 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 pacified the world and became the emperor facing south. In order to commemorate that special day in prison, he designated it as Laba Festival and officially named the miscellaneous grains porridge he ate that day Laba porridge.