Today is our country's traditional festival Laba Festival, Laba Festival is commonly known as "Laba", the eighth day of the twelfth month of the lunar calendar. In ancient times, the folk custom of eating "Laba porridge" (some places are "Laba rice") was popular today. On the one hand, there is a tradition of offering sacrifices to ancestors and gods and praying for good harvest. On the other hand, in some places, it is a festival food custom to commemorate the national hero Yuefei. It is said that the Yuejia army won the festival in Zhuxian Town, but was chased back by the court's twelve gold medals. On the way back to the division, the soldiers were hungry and hungry. Along the way, the people of Henan poured their meals into a large pot, cooked them into porridge and distributed them to the soldiers for hunger and cold. It was the eighth day of the lunar month. Then Yue Fei was killed in the storm pavilion. In order to remember this national hero, the people of Henan Province eat "everyone's dinner" every Laba day to show their memory.

 

 

 

About Laba porridge, according to Yanjing Age Record, Laba porridge: "Laba porridge, yellow rice, white rice, millet, water chestnut, red Jiangdou, peeled jujube mud, boiled and cooked in boiling water, external use dyed with red peach, almond, melon seeds, peanuts, hazelnut, pine nuts and sugar, brown sugar, trivial grapes, for dot dyeing."

 

Legend has it that on the evening of the seventh day of the first lunar month, people began to busy up, washing rice, picking fruit, peeling, to seed, select, and then began to boil in the middle of the night, and then stewed with a light fire, until the next morning, Laba porridge was cooked. After the Laba porridge is cooked, the Buddha must be first given to the monks. Afterwards, to give friends and relatives, must be sent out before noon, if the porridge to the poor to eat, it is more for their own good. The last is the whole family. The leftover Laba porridge, preserved for a few days and left over, is considered a good omen, taking its "annual surplus" meaning.

 

Laba porridge, as a habitual diet of Laba, has its true meaning even though it has its allusions. Every time Laba is the lowest temperature day of the year, people's physique has become weaker, and a simple Laba porridge contains and stomach, invigorating spleen, nourishing heart, clearing lung, kidney, liver, eyesight, tranquilizing the mind, catharsis and other functions, can be said to be comprehensive, while rich nutrition for the human body to enhance immunity, improve Cold tolerance index.

 

 

 

Laba porridge has many advantages, but the production method is very troublesome, and if usually not prepared, to Laba the day to prepare food ingredients is also quite difficult, this time to the supermarket to two cans of eight treasures porridge is really convenient and fast, take home a simple warm, hold in hand, a beautiful spoon is simply warm and warm Heart.

 

In recent years, eight treasure porridge cans have been developing rapidly in China. According to the association, the total output of the country in 2015 reached 6 billion cans (350 g / can, about 1.8 million tons). The continuous and mechanized production of Babao Porridge can be produced all year round, and the quality and safety of the products are effectively guaranteed.

 

 

 

Babao porridge on the market a wide range of canned goods, a wide range of products, casually go to the supermarket to have a look, a variety of types including laurel lotus seeds, black rice purple potato, red jujube and wolfberry eight treasure porridge, and so on, people should be overwhelmed. In addition, if you are not convenient to eat sugar, you might as well have a xylitol eight treasures congee.

 

Finally, I wish you all a good meal of eight treasures porridge today, comfortable and warm through the whole winter, and wish you good health and success!