"Eight-treasure porridge" is generally made of japonica rice, glutinous rice or black glutinous rice as the main material, and auxiliary materials, such as mung beans, red beans, lentils, white lentils, red dates, peach kernels, peanuts, lotus seeds, longan, pine nuts, yam, lily, medlar, Euryale ferox and coix seed, are added to make porridge. People in different parts of our country choose different materials according to their dietary preferences. But there are basically four kinds of raw materials: rice, beans, dried fruits and Chinese herbal medicines. The family cooks "eight-treasure porridge", sometimes adding chestnuts, carrots, sausages, bacon and so on.

Laba porridge, also known as Babao porridge, is a kind of porridge made of various ingredients in Laba Festival. The folklore comes from Tianzhu. China literati in the Southern Song Dynasty carefully wrote "Old Wulin Stories", saying: "It is called Laba porridge with walnuts, pine nuts, milk, persimmons and chestnuts as porridge". It means that porridge made of walnuts, pine nuts, milk, persimmons and chestnuts is used to teach eight-treasure porridge.

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The traditional practice of Laba porridge is to first pick up and wash barley rice, white kidney beans, red beans and mung beans, cook them half-cooked, then put them in rice, millet and yellow rice, and then cook them with slow fire. The porridge is moderate in thickness, with sugar when eating, and mixed with pre-cooked red dates and chestnuts. Generally, there are peanuts, dates, almonds, walnuts, chestnuts, lotus seeds, lilies, longan meat, raisins and various kinds of rice and beans.

The ingredients of modern eight-treasure porridge depend on personal taste, generally including 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.

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