Lapa congee, a kind of porridge made with a variety of ingredients on the Lapa Festival, is also called seven treasures and five flavors porridge. Eating Laha congee to celebrate a good harvest has been passed down to this day. In ancient times, on the eighth day of the twelfth month of the lunar calendar, the Chinese folk custom of eating "Laha congee" (or "Laha rice" in some places) was passed down. In Henan, Laha congee, also known as "everyone rice", is a holiday food custom in honor of the national hero Yue Fei.

It is said that when the Yuejia army crusade against the Jin Lu in Zhuxianzhen victory, but by the imperial court of the twelve gold medals to chase forced back, on the way back to the division, the soldiers and hungry and hungry, along the way, the people of Henan have to the families to send the meal poured in the cauldron, boiled into a porridge divided into soldiers to fill up the hunger of the cold, which happened to be the eighth of the month of the lunar calendar. Yue Fei was then killed in the storm Pavilion, in order to commemorate the national hero, the people of Henan every Lahai this day, every family to eat "big rice", in memory of.