Tomorrow is the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, which is the Laba Festival with a long tradition and history. Grandma cooked a big pot of Laba porridge carefully today.

With attractive fragrance, I was deeply attracted by the colorful red dates, red beans, mung beans, soybeans, walnuts, pine nuts, chestnuts, ginkgo and peanuts in the bowl! After a bite, I found that in addition to rice, there are chicken head rice, glutinous rice and duck blood glutinous rice.

Eating Laba porridge on Laba Festival is the most traditional and exquisite custom of the whole country. Since the pre-Qin period, Laba Festival has been used to worship ancestors and gods and pray for good harvest and good luck. In the Song Dynasty, whenever Laba was held, Laba porridge was held in the imperial court, government offices, monasteries and the homes of ordinary people.

The earliest Laba porridge was cooked with red beans, and there is a saying that "red beans play ghosts". Later, the content of porridge became more and more colorful. Use all kinds of rice, such as glutinous rice, yellow rice, white rice and sorghum rice; All kinds of beans, such as soybean, cloud bean and cowpea; All kinds of dried fruits, such as jujube, chestnut, almond, peanut, walnut, longan, etc.

Mix them together to make porridge, which reflects the harvest of agriculture.

With the improvement of people's living standards, the content of Laba porridge is becoming more and more colorful. Now Laba porridge has become a delicious and healthy food that people like. Laba porridge has many well-known stories and legends, which have formed the traditional food culture in China.