CCTV News: January 7th is the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, which is Laba Festival. As the saying goes, "Laba is the New Year after it", Chinese people welcome the New Year with a bowl of hot Laba porridge.

Anyang, Henan: Laba porridge ingredients are coming. The ingredients for Laba porridge are coming.

In the past two days, in Anyang, Henan, Laba porridge ingredients for major local supermarkets have been coming.

In a supermarket in Anyang, Henan, in order to facilitate citizens to purchase Laba porridge ingredients, a special Laba porridge counter is specially set up, and many citizens are purchasing ingredients at the counter.

In order to meet the needs of citizens, the supermarket not only prepares matching porridge, but also has newly added high-quality glutinous rice, red beans, mung beans and other Laba porridge ingredients for citizens to choose and purchase. As the festival approaches, the sales of Laba porridge ingredients have increased significantly compared with usual, and most of the consumers are middle-aged and elderly.

When talking about cooking Laba porridge, every family has different tastes and techniques. In order to make the cooked Laba porridge sweet and soft, many citizens have their own tips.

Guizhou Yinjiang: Sweet Laba Porridge Pray for Blessings and Welcomes the New Year

In Guizhou Yinjiang Tujia and Miao Autonomous County, locals gathered together to cook a table of authentic Tujia dishes, cook a pot of Laba Porridge, and pray for Blessings and Welcomes the New Year.

The Spring Festival is approaching, and Tujia children who are going out have begun to return to their hometowns one after another. In Shapo Village, Banxi Town, Yinjiang County, the family of villager Zhang Lifang is preparing to cook Laba porridge. There are more than ten kinds of porridge-making ingredients such as glutinous rice, peanuts, red beans, coix seed, etc. Wash the prepared ingredients first with clean water, and then soak them in warm water for two to three hours. Taking advantage of this gap, the man at home would go to the fish pond to catch a few fresh fish and go home to ask for a new year to eat fresh food and enjoy the new year. Drain the soaked porridge and boil over high heat, then put it in the pot and simmer it slowly.

When a large pot of hot and fragrant Laba porridge is served, accompanied by a pot of fresh fish hot pot, stir-fried pork with Tujia fermented black beans and other special dishes, a table of reunion dinner with a full color, aroma and flavor will be started. According to legend, in the past, Tujia people had to go up the mountain to hunt during Laba, but now it has evolved into new ways of praying for pigs, fishing, and cooking porridge to pray for blessings, and welcoming the new year together.

Taiyuan, Shanxi: Laba is coming, vinegar is fragrant, and citizens are busy lined up to get vinegar

In addition to drinking Laba porridge, many places also have the custom of eating Laba garlic. In Taiyuan, Shanxi, locals marinate Laba garlic with old vinegar. In the past few days, old vinegar has entered the peak sales season, and people line up to fight jealousy, which has become a unique scenery on the streets of Taiyuan.

January 7 is the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. In order to welcome the arrival of Laba, many citizens came to a time-honored vinegar shop in Taiyuan. The weather was cold, but it still could not stop everyone's enthusiasm.

The steaming old vinegar flows down the tube into the container, and a rich vinegar aroma spreads out. The store is bustling with jealous citizens. Most of them use their own containers to pack, mainly large-capacity barrels and pots.