Laha congee, also known as "seven treasures and five flavors of congee", "Buddha congee", "everyone rice" and so on, is a kind of congee made of a variety of ingredients. The origin of the custom of drinking congee on the 8th day of the 12th lunar month is related to the story of Buddha's attainment of Buddhahood. Therefore, Li Fu, a scholar from Suzhou in the Qing Dynasty, wrote the following poem: "The congee on the eighth day of the Lunar New Year is from the kingdom of Brahma, the seven treasures are beautifully blended and the five flavors are fragrantly grated into it." Generally, the monastery's Buddha porridge is both delicious and a lot to meet the needs of good men and women who come to the temple to participate in the commemorative ceremony. Some believers specifically run "porridge" to come, that the porridge for the Buddha on the 8th day of the auspicious, not only for their own consumption, but also to bring home for the enjoyment of family members. Year after year, the temple to do the tradition of Laha congee is widely spread to the people, and thus gradually formed in the northern part of China over the "Laha Festival" to drink Laha congee custom.

2, Lahai vinegar

Lahai vinegar, the traditional Lahai custom. On the day of the vinegar soaked garlic custom, the name "Laha vinegar". Laha vinegar, to soak to the first day of the New Year, the first day to eat dumplings, to eat vegetarian dumplings, take the meaning of a year of vegetarian net net, dipped in Laha vinegar to eat, don't have a taste is. "Lahai vinegar" is not only mellow flavor, and not bad for a long time.

3, Lahai garlic

At the beginning of the eighth of Lahai, the New Year's atmosphere of a day than a day, most areas in northern China on the eighth of Lahai have vinegar soaked garlic on the day of the custom, called Lahai garlic. Laha garlic is in the lunar calendar on the eighth day of the eighth day to soak garlic, is a custom in northern China. Its ingredients are vinegar and garlic cloves.

4, eat ice

The day before Lahai, people usually use steel pots to scoop up water to make ice, and wait until the Lahai Festival to take off the pots of ice and knock the ice into pieces. It is said that the ice on this day is very magical, eat it in the next year will not have a stomach ache.

5, Lahai tofu

Lahai tofu is one of the traditional folk snacks in Yixian County, Anhui Province, the festival food customs. On the eighth day of the month, every family has to sunshine tofu, the folk will be this sunshine tofu, it is called "Lahai tofu".

6, Lahai noodles

Lahai noodles, that is, Lahai Festival seasonal food. Traditional noodles, popular in the Guanzhong area of Shaanxi Province, in the Chengcheng area around the north of Shaanxi Province, the Lahai Festival is generally not congee, the morning of the eighth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar every year, families have to eat a bowl of Lahai noodles.

7, wheat kernel rice

Xining Lunar New Year's Day does not drink porridge, but eat wheat kernel rice. On the seventh night of the first day of the lunar month will be newly crushed wheat kernels, and beef and mutton with cooking, plus green salt, ginger, pepper, fruits, Miao incense and other condiments, after a night of simmering fire. Qinghai Legends say that the eighth day of the twelfth month of the lunar calendar is the day of Sakyamuni's enlightenment, before the enlightenment of the shepherdess to offer the milk, with incense and fruit porridge for the Buddha, that porridge is the wheat porridge, into the later Qinghai "Lahai congee". According to this practice, later generations created this flavor in the Qinghai people's diet. Also began to popularize in restaurants.