The origin of Laba porridge China has the custom of cooking Laba porridge on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, which is called Laba Festival. There are various stories about the origin of Laba porridge. Laba Festival, the enlightenment of Buddha, was originally a Buddhist festival. Before becoming a Buddha, Sakyamuni became a monk and lived an ascetic life for six years, hungry and exhausted to the extreme. A herdsman brought him chyle-(milk porridge). After eating, she regained her strength, washed away the dirt on her body and finally became a Buddha under the bodhi tree. Buddhism regards this day as a "Taoist festival". Indian Buddhism spread to China, and Buddhists in China believed that Sakyamuni became a Buddha on the eighth day of December (that is, the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month), so Laba was regarded as the Day of Enlightenment. In ancient times, on this day, monasteries chanted sutras to commemorate, followed the example of herdsmen offering chyme, and offered porridge to the Buddha with various fragrant valleys and fruits, which was called Laba porridge. Laba porridge originated from Laba porridge. The Han dynasty stipulated that the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month was a wax festival. On the day of Laba, people usually prepare a special kind of porridge to worship the wax god. This kind of porridge is made by mixing whole grains with peanuts, chestnuts, red dates, walnuts and almonds, stewing with low fire, and then adding brown sugar to make eight-color fragrant porridge, which is called "Laba porridge". After the porridge is cooked, several bowls should be placed in front of the courtyard patio, the grinding plate and the pigsty of cattle, horses and sheep to celebrate the harvest and welcome good luck. It can be seen that the "Laba porridge" at that time had nothing to do with Buddhism, and it was entirely our own traditional anniversary.