According to legend, the founder of Buddhism, Siddhartha Gautama, was the son of King Joyfull of Kabiravai in the north of ancient India, and when he was young, he gave up his throne to see the suffering of all living beings, and then he practiced meditation for six years in the mountains, and when he was starving and thin, a shepherdess found him, and she found him a lot of wild fruits and a variety of rice and cooked it into a hot porridge for him to eat. Eat and sit cross-legged under the Bodhi tree, in the eighth of December to realize the Buddha, the descendants do not forget the suffering he suffered, every year on the eighth day of the month to eat porridge to commemorate.

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Buddhism's founder Siddhartha Gautama was originally the son of the King of Joyous Rice in the country of Kabiravi in the north of ancient India, and he saw that all beings were suffering from old age and disease, but also dissatisfied with the theocratic rule of Brahmins, gave up his throne and became a monk. He gave up his throne and became a monk. After six years of asceticism, he ate only one hemp and one rice a day. A shepherdess found him and brought him a lot of wild fruits and a variety of rice to make hot porridge for him to eat. On the eighth day of the waxing moon, he attained enlightenment and became a Buddha under the Bodhi tree. The descendants did not forget his sufferings and ate porridge on the eighth day of the Lunar New Year every year to commemorate him. "The eighth day of the Lunar New Year has become the anniversary of the Buddha's enlightenment. "It is a great festival of Buddhism.

Before the liberation of the Buddhist temples around the bath will be held, held chanting, and follow the example of Sakyamuni before he became a Taoist, the shepherdess to offer the legendary story of the milk, with fragrant grain, fruits and other congee for the Buddha, said "Lahai congee". And Laha congee will be given to the disciples and the good men and women, and then in the folk custom. It is said that in some monasteries, before the eighth day of the eighth month of the Lunar New Year, the monks holding the bowl, along the streets, will collect rice, chestnuts, dates, nuts and other materials into Laha congee distributed to the poor. Legend has it that after eating it, they can get the blessing of Buddha, so the poor people call it "Buddha congee". Lu You of the Southern Song Dynasty wrote a poem: "The Buddha's congee is given to each other today, and the festival in the village of Jiangcun is new." It is said that the famous Hangzhou Tianning Temple has a storage of leftovers "stacks of rice building", usually the temple monks every day to the leftovers of the sun, the accumulation of a year's surplus food, to the eighth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar into Lapa congee distributed to the believers, known as "longevity congee" "Fude congee", which means that eating it is called "Buddha porridge" by poor people. It is called "Fukushou congee" and "Fude congee", which means that after eating it, one can increase one's happiness and longevity. Visible at that time, the monks of the temple to cherish the virtues of food.

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It is said that Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, was poor when he was a child, so he gave a rich man to herd cows. One day when he was crossing a wooden bridge, the cow slipped and fell off the bridge, breaking his leg. The rich old man was furious and put him in a house without food. Zhu Yuanzhang hungry enough, suddenly found a rat hole in the house, peeled open a look, the original is a mouse granary, which has rice, beans, and red dates. He combined these things together and cooked a pot of porridge, which tasted very sweet and delicious. Later Zhu Yuanzhang when the emperor, and remembered this matter, they called the imperial kitchen boiled a pot of various kinds of grain and beans mixed together in the porridge. Eat this day is exactly the eighth day of the eighth month, so it is called Laha congee.