CCTV News: January 7th is the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, which is the "Laba Festival". As the saying goes, "Laba is the New Year." Starting today, people's "busy New Year" will accelerate, and the "New Year atmosphere" will become stronger and stronger. "Laba is here, and the porridge is fragrant." On Laba, drinking Laba porridge is a traditional custom. People cook various ingredients such as red dates, peanuts, longans, lotus seeds, walnuts, japonica rice into porridge. The thick porridge is filled with the people's good wishes for a good harvest, health and peace. If you drink it warmly, the sense of ritual of the New Year will come. The New Year atmosphere in Yuyuan is getting stronger and stronger. Visit the garden to enjoy the porridge and lanterns

As a landmark New Year cultural event in Shanghai, the Yuyuan Lantern Festival also ushered in its 30th brilliant bloom. On Laba Day, Laba porridge was distributed here to citizens for free. Laba porridge is full of fragrance, boil it in the early morning to make it hot

Today is Laba Festival, and for many people, drinking a bowl of steaming Laba porridge is essential. Early this morning, the old brand in Yuyuan was distributing Laba porridge for free, and now there are long queues at the door of the store. How does the porridge taste so popular? The porridge is added with 8 Chinese medicinal materials, including red beans, ginkgo, wolfberry, yam, lotus seeds, etc., which can be said to be full of ingredients. If you drink it, it will be soft, glutinous and sweet. According to the staff, in order to ensure the freshness of the porridge, the rice needs to be soaked overnight in advance. The staff started cooking at three or four in the morning on January 7. At the same time, the sugar is appropriately reduced in this porridge to ensure that the porridge is delicious and healthy.

This is the 21st year when Laba porridge is distributed to citizens for free. An aunt introduced that in recent years, she has come to Yuyuan every Laba Festival, which has become her retention activity for Laba Festival, and it is full of ritual. Everyone came to Yuyuan not only to drink a bowl of porridge, but also to experience the increasingly strong "New Year atmosphere" here. Watching the lanterns and visiting the garden is also a city memory

After drinking Laba porridge, you can also watch the lanterns and visiting the garden here. As an urban cultural landmark in Shanghai, Yuyuan represents the most traditional side of Shanghai. Although it is located in the downtown area of ​​Shanghai, with flying eaves and corners, pavilions and towers everywhere, it also complements the bustling buildings of Lujiazui not far away. The New Year Lantern Festival in Yuyuan is being held here. This tree is called "Tree of Life", which is one of the most popular lanterns in the Yuyuan Lantern Club. If you look closely, you will find that it is dotted with various strange insects and flowers and plants. When you get closer, you can hear insects and birds singing and insects flapping their wings. Its design inspiration comes from the ancient myth "Shan Hai Jing".

If you come to Yuyuan at night, as night falls, all the light groups will be lit up, and the whole park is "the lights of the flower market are like day". As a national intangible cultural heritage, the Yuyuan Lantern Festival has been held for 30 years. For many people, when the lanterns in Yuyuan are on, they know that the festival is coming. It has long become a landmark New Year cultural event in Shanghai, leaving behind a unique urban memory. Special activities to welcome the New Year and experience traditional culture

In 2025, Yuyuan also set up many special activities to welcome the New Year, such as intangible cultural heritage markets, parades, experience activities, etc., so that everyone can feel the charm of traditional culture. In addition, the 2025 Yuyuan Lantern Festival also plans to "go out to sea" again and hold a lantern festival in Bangkok, Thailand, so that the world can feel the romance of the Chinese.