It’s Laba Festival tomorrow; are you making Laba porridge?
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This post was last edited by Crazy Snail on 2018-1-23 at 10:59. Laba congee is a type of congee prepared using various ingredients on the Laba Festival; it is also known as Seven Treasures and Five Flavors Congee. Eating Laba porridge to celebrate a good harvest has been a tradition to this day. In ancient times, on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, there was a custom among the Chinese people to eat \"Laba congee\" (in some places, it was called \"Laba rice\"). In Henan, Laba congee is also known as “everyone’s meal”; it is a traditional food custom celebrated to commemorate the national hero Yue Fei. \"Yanjing Sui Shi Ji · Laba Congee\": \"Laba Congee is made by cooking yellow rice, white rice, glutinous rice, millet, water caltrop seeds, chestnuts, red kidney beans, and jujube paste without the skin in boiling water. It is then decorated with colored peach kernels, almonds, melon seeds, peanuts, hazelnuts, pine nuts, as well as white sugar, brown sugar, and raisins.\" ”. Just like Laba rice, Laba porridge is a remnant of the ancient wax sacrifice rituals. The Book of Rites, Chapter on Sacrificial Animals for Outdoor Rituals, states that the Laba festival is a time when \"all things in the world are gathered together to offer sacrifices to them.\" Laba congee combines foods from all directions and cooks them together with rice, symbolizing the gathering of all things and the harmonization of all spirits.
It’s fine to eat canned eight-treasure porridge for this occasion; it’s too troublesome to make it yourself
The one I bought was too sweet and a bit cloying
Time flies; before we know it, the end of the year is here. I’m getting ready tonight – we’ll have porridge tomorrow!
The Laba garlic was prepared the day before yesterday; we’ve arranged to have Laba porridge tonight: lol
It’s fine; it can be done any day these days. It will turn green in a week. The key is to use red-skinned garlic that is about to sprout and rice vinegar; it’s not necessary to do it on Laba Day:lol
Warm it in warm water, open the lid, and eat it with a spoon; P
It’s tastier to make Laba congee by yourself
The meaning outweighs the actual value; buying a jar of eight-treasure congee is enough just for the sake of the symbolism :lol