The ingredients of Laba porridge vary from place to place. On the eighth day of the eighth lunar month, eight things are mixed and cooked. Among them, rice, carrots and vegetables are indispensable three treasures. In addition, there are peanuts (or soybeans), lotus seeds, ginkgo, tofu or oily tofu, taro and other ingredients. If you want to add more ingredients, you can put fungus, red dates and vegetarian bean cakes.

the proportion of ingredients in laba porridge is usually:

rice accounts for 4%, glutinous rice accounts for 2%, vegetables account for 1%, carrots and peanuts (soybeans) account for 5% each, tofu (oily tofu) and fried dough sticks account for 5%, ginkgo, lotus seeds and taro account for 5%, and the other 1% can be considered as unnecessary.

Nowadays, the ingredients of Laba porridge depend on personal taste. Generally, there are rice, peanuts, mung beans, red beans and lotus seeds. Others include lentils, red dates, longan, yam, lily, medlar, coix seed, millet, other beans and red dates. This porridge can be sweetened into dessert or salted.

the so-called "five flavors are harmonious and a hundred flavors are fragrant". Before cooking porridge, you should heat the oil, then fry the rice, then put the fried rice in a hot water pot to cook, and then put the peanuts and other materials in. The whole pot of Laba porridge has Huang Liang's fried dough sticks, white tofu, red carrots, black fungus, and blue Qingjiang cuisine, with bright colors.

Laba porridge is a kind of porridge made of various ingredients in Laba Festival, also known as Qibao Wuwei porridge. The custom of Laba porridge is no longer owned by Buddhists. As a folk custom, Laba porridge is eaten on December 8 of the lunar calendar to celebrate the harvest, which has been passed down to this day. The earliest Laba porridge was cooked by adzuki beans, and it was gradually enriched by evolution and local characteristics. The legend of Laba porridge comes from Tianzhu, India. The eighth day of the twelfth lunar month is the anniversary of Buddha's enlightenment, commonly known as Laba Festival, and it is called Magic Weapon Festival in Buddhism.

Fucha Dunchong's "Yanjing Nian Ji Laba Porridge": "Laba porridge is cooked with yellow rice, white rice, glutinous rice, millet, water chestnut, red cowpea, peeled jujube paste, etc., and dyed red peach kernels, almonds, melon seeds, peanuts, hazelnuts, pine nuts and sugar for external use. . Laba porridge, like laba rice, is the remains of ancient wax sacrifice. "Sacrifice to the Suburb Special Sacrifice" says that the wax sacrifice is "December of the year, which brings together all things and seeks for food". Laba porridge is mixed with food from all directions and cooked in a pot with rice, which means bringing together all things and reconciling thousands of spirits. Laba porridge, combined with China traditional health culture and food culture, is called a good health product. There is another saying: Laba porridge was originally cooked by Buddhist temples for bodhisattvas-eighteen kinds of dried fruits symbolize eighteen arhats, and later this custom became popular among the people.