Do you want to drink porridge on Laba Festival? Laba Festival is coming, so I want to drink porridge. There are many sayings about drinking porridge. In order to commemorate the Buddha, to mourn the migrant workers who starved to death to build the Great Wall, and to educate the next generation to be frugal, this Laba porridge must be drunk, and it should be drunk more. The traditional ingredients of Laba porridge are rice, millet, coix seed, glutinous rice, oats, corn, red dates, longan, lotus seeds, red beans and black beans.
Is Laba Festival a traditional festival in China? Laba Festival is a traditional festival in China. Because it is a traditional festival of Han nationality in China, on this day, the ancients have a tradition of offering sacrifices to ancestors and gods and praying for a bumper harvest. Meanwhile, Laba Festival is also one of the important festivals in China. No matter how different festivals are in different places, no matter what reason porridge is cooked, what ingredients are used, sweet porridge or salty porridge, the custom of celebrating Laba Festival and drinking Laba porridge has lasted for thousands of years, and it has not changed so far, and the warmth conveyed in festivals has never stopped.
Who is Laba Festival to commemorate? It was originally a festival to commemorate the enlightenment of Sakyamuni Buddha. Now people celebrate Laba Festival not to commemorate anyone, but to form a traditional habit. And this custom has been passed down to this day. Like my hometown, there is a custom of cooking Laba porridge every year on Laba Festival.