Customs of Lapa Festival: people will eat Lapa congee on this day, the earliest written records of Lapa congee in the Song Dynasty. The Southern Song Dynasty Wu Zimu "Meng Liang record": "the eighth day of this month, the temple is called Lahai. Dasha and other temples, all set up five-flavored porridge, called Laha congee." China's history of drinking congee on the eighth day of the month, has been more than a thousand years. Every Laha this day, whether it is the imperial government, monasteries or the people's homes to do Laha congee. In the Qing Dynasty, the custom of drinking Laha congee was even more prevalent.

The symbolism of the Laha Festival: in the north of China, there are "children children you do not want, after the Laha is the year," said the Laha means that the prelude to the start of the New Year. Every Laha Festival, the northern region is busy peeling garlic vinegar, soak Laha garlic, eat Laha noodles Laha porridge. In the South Laha rarely mentioned, Laha Festival is a typical northern holiday.

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The Lapa Festival is the eighth day of the Lunar month (December) of the lunar calendar, and legend has it that it originated at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty. It is said that when Zhu Yuanzhang suffered in the prison, when it was a cold day, Zhu Yuanzhang, who was cold and hungry, even from the rat holes of the prison to find out some red beans, rice, jujubes, and other seven or eight kinds of grains and miscellaneous cereals.

Zhu Yuanzhang these things into a porridge, because that day is the eighth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, Zhu Yuanzhang will be beautifully named this pot of grain porridge for the congee of the eighth day of the lunar calendar. The company's website has been updated with the latest information on the company's website, including its website. Later, Zhu Yuanzhang pacified the world, sitting in the north towards the south as the emperor, in order to commemorate that special day in prison, he then set the day as Lahai Festival, the day he ate mixed grain congee formally named Lahai congee.