"It smells good." On the morning of the eighth lunar month, together, I smelled a fragrance, dressed in a hurry and came to the table. At this time, a bowl of porridge appeared in front of my eyes, and I was about to pick up chopsticks and have a good taste. My mother suddenly came over and said with a smile, "Little greedy cat, do you know what porridge this is?"
I shook my head. "This is Laba porridge. Every year in the twelfth lunar month, people eat Laba porridge. " Mom said, picked up a spoon, drank some porridge and began to eat. "Speaking of the origin of Laba porridge, it has a long history. Do you want to hear it? " I smiled happily: "Of course, it's good to know."
My mother was mumbling about the origin of Laba porridge: "Well, I began to talk about it: According to legend, Buddha Sakyamuni became a monk and traveled around the world. One day, he fainted in the wild because of hunger and fatigue, and was found by a girl who was grazing. She hurried home to look for food. But her family is poor, and she lacks clothes and food. The miscellaneous grains planted at home are almost eaten up, leaving only a few grains of rice.
This girl is always generous and helpful. She collected a little bit of grain left under each grain bag, added some home-grown nuts, cooked a big bowl of porridge with clear spring water, served it to the Buddha and fed it to him bit by bit. After eating the delicious porridge, Sakyamuni soon woke up, took a bath in the nearby river and sat down under the bodhi tree to meditate.
Finally, he became a Buddha in the early twelfth lunar month. Later, Buddhist believers cooked porridge for the Buddha on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month every year. So Laba porridge is also called Buddha porridge. On this day, the monks in the temple cooked the vegetarian food collected from the donation into porridge to worship the Buddha, and then distributed the porridge to the poor.
Later, Laba porridge spread and became a folk custom. Lu You, a poet in the Southern Song Dynasty, left a poem:' Today, Buddha porridge is given to each other, and Jiangcun is more important.' Laba porridge, as a folk auspicious food, is given to each other, which means a bumper harvest at the end of the year and good weather in the coming year. Since then, people have eaten Laba porridge every year in the Lunar New Year. "