People hold sacrificial activities on this day to pray for good harvest and good luck. Laba porridge is made by decocting adzuki beans, walnuts, pine nuts, persimmons, millet, yellow rice, glutinous rice, millet, water chestnut rice and peeled jujube paste, and adding peach kernels, almonds, melon seeds, peanuts, white sugar and brown sugar. Laba Festival is also a Buddhist festival-"Taoist Festival".
According to legend, when Sakyamuni was in distress near the Nilian River in Bihar, he was rescued by a shepherdess and became a Buddha under a bodhi tree. Since then, Buddhist disciples have promoted chanting activities on Laba Festival. And cooked with dried fruits and miscellaneous grains into "Laba porridge".
Later, people rushed to follow suit, get together to eat and feed their relatives and friends. Today, people in most parts of the north and parts of the south of the Yangtze River, especially in the south of Dongting Lake, still keep the custom of celebrating Laba Festival and eating Laba porridge. Although there are some changes in raw materials, the concept of nutrition and fitness is more and more popular.
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nutritive value
The selection characteristics of "eight-treasure porridge" determine that "eight-treasure porridge" is rich in nutrition and comprehensive. No food in the world contains all the nutrients the human body needs.
"Eight-treasure porridge" takes rice or glutinous rice as raw materials, and also adds millet, beans, walnuts, peanuts, red dates, longan, lotus seeds, yam and medlar. , is a typical application of protein complementation in food.
Cereals lack lysine, while beans have higher lysine content: millet contains more leucine; Nuts are rich in essential fatty acids, trace elements and vitamins. The selected traditional Chinese medicines also have the functions of nourishing, conditioning and strengthening the body. Mixed cereals porridge can give full play to the complementary role of amino acids, learn from each other's strengths and improve the utilization rate of protein.
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