To think of the eight treasures porridge as a dietary therapy meal, so randomly is not possible. Eight treasures porridge is famous, the main or it has a special therapeutic effect, random a match, how can achieve the purpose of therapeutic? In fact, the authentic eight treasures porridge recipe should be: cinnamon, jujube, Gorgon fruit, lotus seed, Job's tears, black beans, walnuts, black fungus 10 grams each, rice (or glutinous rice) 100 grams.
Practice: of course, put it in a pot, add water and simmer it over a slow fire until it is porridge-like.
Functions: benefit the liver, tonifying the kidney and lungs, on the eye blurred eyes, cough, no phlegm, loose stools, weak spleen and stomach often eat effectively - and some people test to make improvements, if there is forgetfulness and insomnia, the top of the addition of sour jujube kernel with the same cooking, the effect is good. Some people like to add lotus root, mountain waist ding at the same time with cooking, the body is also very good, just that can not be called "eight treasures porridge".
History :The eighth day of the twelfth month of the lunar calendar for the Chinese Lahai Festival, the folk have eaten Lahai congee habit. Lapa congee is also known as the Eight Treasures congee, according to legend, Lapa Festival is the Buddha's "Tao" day, Buddhist temples to emulate the story of the pastor's daughter to offer rice, take eight kinds of fragrant grains and fruits to make congee for the Buddha, so the name of the Eight Treasures congee, Lapa congee is simple to make, nutritious, sweet flavor. To the Song Dynasty, folk follow suit, widely spread, and become a favorite cuisine.
The eighth day of the first month of the Lunar New Year is regarded by the Buddhist community as the day of the Buddha, the temple monks and nuns often glutinous rice, sesame, Coix Seed, Gui Yuan, red dates, mushrooms, lotus seeds and other eight kinds of food cooked "eight treasures congee", inviting the surrounding mountain people*** into the Holy Communion, and give alms to the people's families to share the food to show the Buddha's reverence. Then gradually into the folk cooking eight treasures congee (called Lapa congee) to eat. Formed to eat "Laha congee" custom.
Every December 8 of the lunar calendar, the ancient monasteries to take incense and fruits and other miscellaneous cooked into porridge to honor the Buddha, the folk also follow the example of the eighth day of the eighth month of the Lunar New Year to cook such porridge to eat, in order to eliminate the disaster in addition to disease. Song Dynasty Hangzhou folk congee is with "walnuts, pine nuts, milk mushrooms, persimmons, chestnuts and so on" and rice cooked. Ming and Qing dynasties, eating Laha congee is widely practiced around the world.
LaBa congee nominally to get together eight kinds of ingredients, but it is not binding, less four or five kinds, more than a dozen kinds can be. In some places, the congee is glutinous rice, brown sugar and 18 kinds of dried fruits, beans mixed together to simmer, very grand. Lotus seeds, ginkgo nuts, peanuts, jujubes, pine nuts, plus ginger and cinnamon and other seasonings are mixed into the rice to cook the congee, which has the effect of warming the hands and feet and nourishing the body. There is also congee made with cowpeas, golden needles, fungus, tofu and mushrooms, which are called "fine Laha". Ordinary people eat congee, in the rice mixed with green vegetables, soybeans, broad beans, tofu, carrots, water chestnuts cooked into the so-called "coarse Laha". Some places in the north of China do not produce or less rice, people do not eat congee, but to eat Laha noodles. Every other day with a variety of fruits and vegetables into a bashful, the noodles rolled out, to the morning of the eighth of Lunar New Year, the whole family ate Laha noodles. Some of the mountainous areas of corn production, on the eighth day of the month, to corn instead of rice, made of "Laha wheat kernel" to eat. Farmer's custom is that every Laha this day, we have to do a Laha porridge to eat. Laha congee, that is, all the home, wherever delicious, can eat things, can be appropriate to put a little in the pot, soybeans, mung beans, cowpeas, peas, eggs, taro, carrots, and wheat flour, corn flour, sorghum flour, barley flour, etc., mixed into a pot of congee. It is often said that eat all, grow all.
Lunar New Year, that is, a year to, all year round must be the grains and cereals, a variety of vegetables to eat the whole, so as to have a comprehensive nutrition. This is to pray for the human body wellness, the meaning of the family prosperity! Secondly, eat all, harvest all, after the waxing moon, to the new year, eat Lapa congee, the year the ground to grow out of the grains and cereals, a variety of vegetables are eaten, nothing is too much, indicating that the farmers on the land harvested everything is loved and cherished, and I hope that in the new year, what crops can grow well, are able to get a bumper harvest.