It’s time to enjoy the special warm porridge（粥）of winter!

In China, the 12th month of the lunar calendar（农历）is called La Yue. Chinese people celebrate Laba Festival on the eighth day of the month. After the festival, people begin to get ready for Spring Festival.

This year the festival comes on January 10th, 2022. On this day, people eat the hot Laba porridge. To make the porridge nice, people often cook it with eight different things. It usually has rice, red beans, dried lotus seeds（干的莲子）, some nuts and different kinds of dried fruits. But you can put things you like in the porridge, too.

At midnight, people begin to cook it, but we can have it the next morning because we usually spend a lot of time to make it delicious.

The porridge is also called Eight Treasure Porridge. Most people like having it because the porridge is not only good for health, but also a blessing（祝福）for the coming of Spring Festival.

Is your family ready for making the porridge this year?

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