The origin of eight-treasure porridge
The origin of eight-treasure porridge is edited in this paragraph. The eighth day of the twelfth lunar month (called the twelfth lunar month in ancient times) is a traditional festival of the Han nationality. There is a custom of eating "Laba porridge". In the Han Dynasty, the third day to the day after beginning of winter was called "La Ri". In the Southern and Northern Dynasties, it was changed to the eighth day of1February, which was called "Laba Festival". People hold sacrificial activities on this day to pray for good harvest and good luck. Laba porridge is made by decocting adzuki beans, walnuts, pine nuts, persimmons, millet, yellow rice, glutinous rice, millet, water chestnut rice and peeled jujube paste, and adding peach kernels, almonds, melon seeds, peanuts, white sugar and brown sugar. Laba Festival is also a Buddhist festival-"Taoist Festival". According to legend, when Sakyamuni was in distress near the Nilian River in Bihar, he was rescued by a shepherdess and became a Buddha under a bodhi tree. Since then, Buddhist disciples have promoted chanting activities on Laba Festival. And cooked with dried fruits and miscellaneous grains into "Laba porridge". Later, people rushed to follow suit, get together to eat and feed their relatives and friends. Today, people in most parts of the north and parts of the south of the Yangtze River, especially in the south of Dongting Lake, still keep the custom of celebrating Laba Festival and eating Laba porridge. Although there are some changes in raw materials, the concept of nutrition and fitness is more and more popular.
The "eight-treasure porridge" and "eight-treasure rice" we eat now are derived from the ancient "Laba porridge" in China. But now there are abundant materials, and raw materials are sold all year round. "Laba porridge"-eight-treasure porridge (or rice) doesn't have to wait until the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month to eat. It can be said that you can eat it all year round as long as you are willing to cook. In some places, wedding banquets, especially when giving birth to children, often serve eight-treasure rice or eight-treasure porridge. It has three meanings: first, it comes from Buddhism, a religious belief in folk customs, which is considered to ward off evil spirits and keep peace; Second, it can increase the variety of food, so that guests can enjoy various flavors of food; Third, it can increase the festive atmosphere and show the hospitality of the host, so people like it, and each one is better and more delicious.
The origin of eight-treasure porridge
According to legend, Buddha Sakyamuni became a monk and traveled around the world. One day, he fainted in the wild because of hunger and fatigue, and was found by a girl who was grazing. She hurried home to look for food. But her family is poor, and she is short of clothes and food. All the miscellaneous grains planted at home are almost eaten up, only a few grains are left. This girl is always generous and helpful. She collected a little bit of grain left under each grain bag, added some home-grown nuts, cooked a big bowl of porridge with clear spring water, served it to the Buddha and fed it to him bit by bit. After eating delicious porridge, Sakyamuni soon woke up, took a bath in the nearby river, sat under the bodhi tree and meditated, and finally became a Buddha at the beginning of the twelfth lunar month. Later, Buddhist believers cooked porridge for the Buddha on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month every year. So Laba porridge is also called Buddha porridge. On this day, the monks in the temple cooked the vegetarian food collected from the donation into porridge to worship the Buddha, and then distributed the porridge to the poor. Later, Laba porridge spread and became a folk custom. Lu You, a poet in the Southern Song Dynasty, left such a poem: "Today, Buddha porridge is given to each other, and Jiangcun is more important." Laba porridge, as a folk auspicious food, is given to each other, which means a bumper harvest at the end of the year and good weather in the coming year.
There is also an interesting story about the origin of Laba porridge: It is said that Zhu Yuanzhang grazed for the landlord's family when he was young and lived a life without food and clothing. Once, on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, he spent a day herding sheep in the wild and didn't eat a decent meal at night. So he searched everywhere in the wild to satisfy his hunger. Suddenly, he found a big, fat mouse on the edge of the field and hurried into a mouse hole. Zhu Yuanzhang approached the mouth of the cave and dug it out with branches. He found some kinds of food in the mouse hole. Obviously, this is the winter storage food for mice. Zhu Yuanzhang took out a handful of whole grains, including millet, corn, peanuts and red beans. He washed these miscellaneous grains and cooked them into porridge, which was delicious. After Zhu Yuanzhang became emperor, he still remembered the "miscellaneous grains porridge" made by himself when he was young. He stipulated that this kind of cereal porridge must be made in the imperial dining hall and named it "Laba porridge". The chef added Gordon Euryale seed, lotus seed, osmanthus fragrans, peach kernel and jujube to the porridge, which was especially sweet and delicious. Later, this kind of porridge spread to the people and has continued to this day.
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