The proverbs and old sayings about Laha Festival are as follows:

Laha Laha, freezing off the jaw. The ice of Laha is so cold that you can't eat the bad guys. Winter wheat cover three layers of quilt, the next year sleep on the pillow buns. Laha. Laha, yes, Laha, no, Hassa. If you eat Laha's rice, you'll do the New Year! On Laha, the stove is sacrificed, the New Year is coming, the girls want flowers, the boys want cannons, the mothers eat osmanthus cakes, the old men wear new felt hats. After the eighth day of the lunar month, it's the New Year. If you don't eat your mother's family's rice on the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, your grandparents won't be able to pay back the debt. The first chimney to smoke, the first red tip of sorghum.

There is a saying in old Beijing: "The cold crows will freeze to death on the eighth day of the Lunar New Year". The meaning is that by the time of Laxi Laxi, is the coldest time of the year, can put the cold-resistant cold crows to freeze to death. As long as you drink the congee on the morning of this day, you will not freeze your hands and feet for a winter.

The eighth day of the twelfth month of the lunar calendar (the twelfth month of the lunar calendar is known as the month of waxing), is China's traditional Han Lahai Festival, this day most areas of China have eaten Lahai congee. Custom. Laba congee is cooked with eight kinds of fresh grains and fruits and melons harvested that year, and it is usually a sweet porridge. While many farmers in the Central Plains like to eat Lahai salty porridge, porridge in addition to rice, millet, mung beans Cowpeas, soybeans, peanuts, jujubes and other raw materials, but also to add shredded meat, radish, cabbage, vermicelli, kelp, bean curd and so on.

In many places, it is believed that drinking Laha congee can get the blessing of Buddha. Therefore, Laha congee is also called "Fukushou congee", "Fude congee" and "Buddha congee".