According to legend, the old couple lived a hard life, scrimped and saved a fortune, but their precious son didn't live up to expectations, and they were not virtuous when they married their daughter-in-law, and they soon lost everything.

The custom origin of Laba porridge

On the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, the couple were cold and hungry.

Fortunately, villagers and neighbors helped to cook a pot of "hybrid porridge" made of rice, noodles, beans and vegetables. It means: "Eat mixed porridge and remember the lesson."

This porridge made the young couple get rid of their bad habits and embark on the right path. By living hard, their days are getting better day by day.

The popular custom of Laba porridge is that people follow it to warn future generations.

Legend 2

Qin Shihuang built the Great Wall, and all migrant workers were ordered to come. They can't go home for many years, and they rely on their families to send them food.

Some migrant workers whose homes are separated by water in Qian Shan are unable to deliver meals, resulting in many migrant workers starving to death at the site of the Great Wall.

One year, on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, migrant workers who had no food jointly accumulated a few handfuls of coarse grains, put them in a pot and cooked them into porridge. Everyone drank a bowl and finally starved to death under the Great Wall.

In order to mourn the migrant workers who starved to death at the site of the Great Wall, people eat Laba porridge every year on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month to commemorate them.

Legend 3

Laba Festival originated from people's memory of Yue Fei, a loyal minister.

At that time, Yue Fei led the troops to resist gold in Zhuxian Town, which was in the severe winter of September. Yue Jiajun had no food and clothing, was hungry and cold, and the people sent porridge one after another.

Yue Jiajun had a hearty meal of "thousand porridge" sent by the people, and the result was a great victory. It was the eighth day of December.

After Yue Fei's death, in order to commemorate him, people cooked porridge with miscellaneous grains and beans on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, which finally became a custom.

Legend four

Laba Festival is the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month (December), which originated in the late Yuan and early Ming Dynasties. It is said that when Zhu Yuanzhang was in trouble and suffering in prison, it was freezing. The hungry Zhu Yuanzhang actually dug up some seven or eight kinds of miscellaneous grains such as red beans, rice and red dates from the mouse hole in prison.

Zhu Yuanzhang cooked these things into porridge. Because it was the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, Zhu Yuanzhang called this pot of miscellaneous grains porridge Laba porridge. I enjoyed a delicious meal.

Later, Zhu Yuanzhang pacified the world and became the emperor facing south. In order to commemorate that special day in prison, he designated it as Laba Festival and officially named the miscellaneous grains porridge he ate that day Laba porridge.