Laha congee, also known as seven treasures and five flavors of congee, Buddha porridge, everyone rice, etc., is a variety of ingredients boiled into a porridge. "Drinking Laha congee" is a custom of the Laha Festival, and the traditional ingredients of Laha congee include rice, millet, corn, barley, red dates, lotus seeds, peanuts, cinnamon and various kinds of beans.

Xu Ke "Qing Barnyard Banknotes" that cloud: "Lapa congee began in Song, December 8, the Tokyo temples to the seven treasures and five flavors and glutinous rice and boiled into a porridge, people also imitated the line." Wu Zimu, Southern Song Dynasty, "Mengliang Records": "The eighth day of this month, the temple is called Laha. Dasha and other temples, all set up five flavors of porridge, called Laha congee." Laha custom is also influenced by Buddhism, according to legend, Buddha Shakyamuni in the Buddha before he became a six-year asceticism, eating only a very small amount of food every day, became very weak, the Nilian River by the two shepherdesses to see it after the cow's milk made of minced milk to the Buddha to eat, so that he regained his energy. From this, the Buddha realized that austerity does not lead to Buddhahood. He went to the Nilian River to bathe and wash his clothes, and came to Bodhgaya where he sat under a Bodhi tree for forty-eight days before attaining enlightenment on the eighth day of the Lunar New Year. Therefore, the eighth day of the Lunar New Year has become an important festival in Buddhism, and believers use the practice of bathing Buddha and eating Lunar New Year porridge to express their remembrance of the Buddha.