"Children, children, don't be greedy. After the Laba Festival, the year will come." January 18 will usher in the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, the Laba Festival, commonly known as "Laba Festival". From that day on, people began to buy New Year goods to welcome the upcoming Spring Festival.

Eating Laba porridge is an important custom of Laba Festival. In the folk, there are many legends about Laba porridge, among which the popular one is the story of "herding girls offering chyle" in Buddhism. It is said that Sakyamuni ate porridge cooked by a shepherdess on the day of the Laba Festival and became a Buddha under a bodhi tree. Later generations who believe in Buddhism will hold chanting activities every day on the Laba Festival, and cook porridge for Buddha and benefit people. Therefore, Laba porridge is also called Buddha porridge.

According to another legend, Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, was often hungry before he became the emperor. He mixed rice and beans from begging together to cook a pot of porridge. People believed that eating this porridge could bring good luck, so it became popular. It is also analyzed that the date of the Laba Festival is similar to that of the Winter Solstice. In ancient China, there was a custom of offering red bean porridge to gods on the Winter Solstice, and eating porridge on the Laba Festival may be related to this.

"After eating Laba porridge, we will look forward to the coming year". A bowl of Laba porridge, which means complete prosperity, good health, and thorough everything, not only dispels the chill, but also contains the taste of people's expectations and happiness for the New Year.

The Laba Festival is coming, and we Henan Yuji Boiler Vessel Manufacturing Co., Ltd. wish you all full prosperity, good luck and health!