Xiaohan in the north eats Laba porridge.

During the Xiaohan solar term, there is a custom of eating Laba porridge in the north.

Laba porridge is a traditional delicacy made from a variety of ingredients.

Laba porridge, also known as Qibao and five-flavor porridge, Buddha porridge, everyone's rice, etc., is a kind of porridge made from a variety of ingredients.

"Drinking Laba porridge" is a custom during the Laba Festival. The traditional ingredients of Laba porridge include rice, barley, red dates, lotus seeds, peanuts, longan and various beans.

The custom of drinking "Laba porridge" on Laba day began in the Song Dynasty.

Xu Ke's "Qing Bailei Chao" says: "Laba porridge began in the Song Dynasty. On the eighth day of December, the major temples in Tokyo used the seven treasures and five flavors and glutinous rice to make porridge. Others also imitated it." Wu Zimu's "Meng Liang Lu" of the Southern Song Dynasty

It contains: "On the eighth day of this month, the temple calls it Laba porridge." The origin of the history of Laba porridge. The origin of the custom of drinking Laba porridge on Laba day is related to the story of Buddha becoming a Buddha.

Therefore, Li Fu, a Suzhou scholar in the Qing Dynasty, once wrote a poem: "The porridge on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month was passed down from the Brahma Kingdom. The seven treasures are beautifully blended and the five flavors are blended in." The founder of Buddhism, Sakyamuni, whose real name was Gautama Siddhartha, was

The son of King Suddhodana of Kapilavastu in northern India (now in Nepal).

When he was young, he saw all living beings suffering from birth, old age, illness and death. In order to seek the true meaning of life and liberation from life and death, he gave up his royal life and became a monk to practice Taoism.

He practiced asceticism in the snow-capped mountains for six years, often eating one wheat and one hemp a day.

Later, I discovered that blindly practicing asceticism was not the way to liberation, so I gave up asceticism and went down the mountain.

At this time, a shepherd girl saw that he was very weak, so she boiled chylo (cooked milk and grains) to feed him.