It falls on the 8th day of the twelfth lunar month every year.

Laba Festival, which falls on December 8th of the lunar calendar every year, is also known as the "Dharma Treasure Festival", "Buddha Enlightenment Festival", "Enlightenment Meeting", etc.

Originally a Buddhist festival commemorating the enlightenment of Sakyamuni Buddha, it gradually became a folk festival. Laba porridge, also known as "Seven Treasures and Five Flavors Porridge", "Buddha Porridge", "Everyone's Rice", etc., is a kind of food made from a variety of ingredients.

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The earliest written records of Laba porridge date back to the Song Dynasty.

"Meng Liang Lu" written by Wu Zimu in the Southern Song Dynasty records: "On the eighth day of this month, temples call it Laba porridge. Dasha and other temples all have five-flavor porridge, which is called Laba porridge." The history of drinking Laba porridge in our country has been more than a thousand years.

On every Laba day, both the government, government, temples and people’s homes must make Laba porridge.

In the Qing Dynasty, the custom of drinking Laba porridge became even more popular.

In northern my country, if you have children, don’t be greedy. It is said that after Laba Festival, it is the New Year. Celebrating Laba Festival means the beginning of the New Year. Every time during the Laba Festival, the northern areas are busy peeling garlic, making vinegar, soaking Laba garlic, and eating it. Laba noodles and Laba porridge. Laba is rarely mentioned in the south, and the Laba Festival is a typical northern festival.