Wednesday, October 22, 2008

chinese snack Laba Zhou

Laba Festival, also known as the "Laba" refers to the 8th of the Lunar December , in China, there are sections have the drinking customs of Laba Zhou.Legend has it that this is the day the Buddha Sakyamuni became the divinity under a Bodhi and also the creation day of the Buddhist. After Buddhism came to China during 1st century AD, to worship Buddha , all the temples in that day have to make porridge, that is, Laba Zhou.The materials of the porridge are varieties, quality butter, meat and small grain cereals, as well as a variety of dried fruits and so on.Now in southern China, northeast, northwest area still retains the majority of this custom,

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