It is a traditional festival in my country.

In ancient times, some places in my country had the custom of offering sacrifices to ancestors and gods in the twelfth lunar month to pray for a good harvest and good luck.

The Laba Festival is the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month (December) of the lunar calendar. It originated from the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty. It is said that when Zhu Yuanzhang was imprisoned and suffered in prison, it was cold weather, cold and hungry, and he actually dug for food from the mouse hole in the prison.

Some seven or eight kinds of whole grains including red beans, rice, and red dates were produced.

Zhu Yuanzhang cooked these things into porridge. Because it was the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, Zhu Yuanzhang nicknamed this pot of multi-grain porridge Laba porridge.