laba morning, get up early, and their brother and sister, and mother in the red laba rice porridge, run to the courtyard, scrambled to feed on every last night at the door of the people on both sides of the ice, with red beans to give him how small mouth, like laughing at the ice of man, the in the mind don't mention how beautiful.

laba festival there are two legendary origin. buddha sakyamuni buddha said that a move mountain cultivation. december eighth day that day because of hunger and fatigue zaidao street, was a shepherdess found with large gruel saved so that he dachedawu. enlightenment and buddha. one said that the ming emperor zhu yuan-hour cattle to the rich because the rich bracket was broken off in a room, three days did not give anything to eat, he was unbearable hunger. searched everywhere. finally found a rat hole, dig out the beans, grain and other food, zhu chengyu consumption, find it very sweet.

later, the emperor made the emperor, thinking a child eat porridge and that the taste of dayton, he ordered his eunuchs to use a variety of food cooked up a pot of sugar porridge, feast courtiers, after north korea wenwubaiguan emulated and passed civil society, sui cheng a holiday customs. by zhu yuan sugar porridge eighth day of the days of the twelfth lunar month, so this porridge is also called laba porridge of

laba rice porridge was first introduced to china in the song dynasty about 900 years ago.

buddhism was well accepted in the areas inhabited by the han chinese, who believed that sakyamuni the first buddha and founder of the religion, attained enlightenment on the eighth day of the twelfth month. sutras were chanted in the temples and rice porridge with beans, nuts and dried fruit was prepared for the buddha. with the passing of time the custom extended, especially in rural areas where peasants would pray for a plentiful harvest in this way.

there is, however, another touching story: when sakyamuni was on his way into the high mountains in his quest for understanding and enlightenment, he grew tired and hungry. exhausted from days of walking, he fainted away by a river in india. a shepherdess found him there and fed him her lunch -- porridge made with beans and rice. sakyamuni was thus able to continue his journey.