The customs of Laba Festival include peeling garlic to make vinegar, soaking Laba garlic and eating Laba porridge. The moral of Laba Festival is that Sakyamuni, the founder of Buddhism, became a Buddha when he saw the stars on the eighth night of the twelfth lunar month. The eighth day of December is the day when Buddha Sakyamuni became a monk and became a Taoist, also known as the Magic Weapon Festival, the Buddha Taoist Festival and the Taoist Association. To commemorate the Buddha's enlightenment on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, ancient Indians ate mixed porridge on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month as a commemoration.

Laba Festival is celebrated on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month every year. The main custom is to drink Laba porridge. Laba Festival is one of the grand festivals in Buddhism. Buddhism records that Sakyamuni practiced asceticism for many years before becoming a monk, and found that asceticism was not the way out, so he decided to give up asceticism. At this time, I met a shepherd girl who offered chyle, recovered her strength after eating, and sat down under the bodhi tree to meditate.1February 8, I went home as a Taoist.

To commemorate this event, Buddhists held Buddhist ceremonies on this day, offering rice and fruit to cook porridge for the Buddha. In the Southern Song Dynasty, Wu Meng Lianglu said: On the 8th of this month, the temple name was Laba. Dasha and other temples have five kinds of porridge called Laba porridge.