Today is the laba festival

Laba day has the tradition of eating laba rice porridge, laba rice porridge is also called qibao mixed porridge.The history of the drink laba rice porridge in China has more than one thousand years.The first started in the song dynasty.Every laba that day, whether the court, and the rulers, temple or oh off the laba rice porridge to do.In the qing dynasty, drink the customs is more prevalent laba rice porridge.In the palace, the emperor, empress and prince to XiangWenWu minister, attendants maid-in-waiting gives the laba rice porridge, and distribute to each temple meters, such as fruit eaten by monks.Among the people, families also should make laba porridge, ancestor worship;Have a family reunion at the same time, eat together, gift friends and relatives.

Laba rice porridge with makings are different regions have different, but basically include rice, millet, glutinous rice, Chinese sorghum, brown rice, coix seed, such as grains, beans, red bean, mung bean, kidney bean, cowpea, such as beans, red dates, peanuts, lotus seed, medlar, chestnuts, walnuts, almonds, longan, raisins, gingko nuts, etc.Laba porridge is not only a seasonal food, but also keeping in good health, especially for maintenance of spleen and stomach in the cold weather.