Commonly known as the twelfth lunar December, the eighth day of December, both Laba Festival. In this day and drink Laba rice porridge, rice porridge is the people around the country do most traditional, most luxurious custom. Laba is a combination of ingredients stewed porridge, rice porridge is the first red beans to cook, after evolution, combined with local characteristics, and gradually rich and colorful. Production of rice porridge, has a special attention to the choice of materials, the best choice of ingredients rice porridge, depending on people's eating habits and physical condition, should be a King but also eat healthy.

Laba around Sisu

Rice porridge, rice pudding nickname, millet-based, additional to cowpea, red bean, green beans, jujube, and sticky yellow rice, rice, glutinous rice and other cooked it. Southeastern region, namely the fifth day of the twelfth lunar month with red beans, red beans, cowpea, sweet potato, peanut, glutinous rice, dried persimmons, combined water, porridge, also known as sweet rice, is one of Sisu.

Northern Shaanxi - the date of Laba, except that a variety of rice porridge, beans addition, have added a variety of dried fruits, tofu and boiled meat mix. Usually in the morning to cook, or sweet or salty, depending on the tastes discretionary choice. If it is a lunch to eat, but also cook some noodles in the soup, the entire family was sharing meals. After eating, but also porridge and put it on the door, the door on the stove and trees to avoid disaster evil, to meet next year's agricultural harvest. Folk legend, Laba this day bogey eating, says Levin crops to eat weeds and more. Southern Laba people eat porridge hybrid, division "flavors" and "Bawei" two. The former boiled rice, glutinous rice, peanuts, ginkgo, beans. The latter increase diced meat, tofu, radish above five outer material, but also add additional seasoning. Laba this day people eat rice porridge in addition, have to worship ancestors and granary with porridge.

Gansu - traditional boiled rice porridge with grains, vegetables, cooked food in addition to the family, but also distributed to the neighborhood, but also used to feed livestock. In Lanzhou, silver in urban areas, is very particular about cooking rice porridge, rice, beans, red dates, gingko nuts, lotus seeds, raisins, dried apricots, dried melon, walnuts, green their names, sugar, diced boiled and so on. Cooked first goalkeeper to King, the Kitchen God, the earth god, the God of Wealth, pray for good weather, bumper harvest; then distributed to relatives and neighbors, and finally the family to enjoy. Wuwei Region stress the "prime Laba" fused eat rice rice, lentils, rice or fused rice, cooked fried with dice, twist eat, folk call "lentil soup bubble dispersion."

Ningxia - generally do Laba rice with lentils, soybeans, red beans, broad beans, black beans, rice, potatoes, porridge, plus cut into diamond willow leaves with wheat flour or buckwheat noodles "wheat sub" or make small round egg "Chelsea head", before reentry green onion oil pan. This Tianquan family eating Laba rice, do not bite.

Qinghai - Xining, although the Han Chinese majority, but not Laba porridge, but eating wheat kernels rice. The grind of the new wheat kernels, and cook beef and mutton, plus green salt, ginger skin, pepper, strawberry, Miao Hong and other condiments, after a night Simmer boil, meat, wheat blend into chyle-like, exposing the pot early in the morning, fragrant smell, fresh and delicious.

Shandong - "Confucian food system" provided that "Laba" two, one is the intention MI Ren, longan, lotus seeds, lily, chestnuts, dates, rice and other boiled, poured into a bowl and add some even "fruit porridge", mainly fruit carved into various shapes, for embellishment. This porridge exclusively for Confucian masters and 12 masters government consumption. Another is to use rice, meat, cabbage, boiled tofu, when the difference is to Confucian in their drink.

Sichuan - rice porridge practice varied, savory and sweet spicy, salty and rural people eat more, mainly soybeans, peanuts, diced, white radish, carrots boiled. Stranger to this taste, although the Romans, but it is difficult habit, now city people eat a lot of sweet porridge, called flavor. Laba porridge can be described with the closely related, but Laba porridge drink, drink can be considered out of the pattern, drink out of the level.

Tianjin - pay attention to some of the must add lotus seeds, lily, Pearl Millet, Italy kernel rice, barley, kaoliang cereals sticky, sticky yellow rice, kidney beans, green beans, longan meat, longan meat, ginkgo, red dates and sugar and other sweet-scented osmanthus, color , smell and taste. In recent years, as well as adding black rice. This rice porridge for diet, spleen, appetizers, qi, soothe the nerves, pure heart, blood and other effects.

Shanxi - rice porridge, rice pudding nickname, millet-based, additional to cowpea, red bean, green beans, jujube, and sticky yellow rice, rice, glutinous rice and other cooked it. Southeastern region, namely the fifth day of the twelfth lunar month with red beans, red beans, cowpea, sweet potato, peanut, glutinous rice, dried persimmons, combined water, porridge, also known as sweet rice, is one of Sisu.