Probably no city will have such high expectations for Laba porridge like Hangzhou. Lapa Festival, drinking a bowl of Lapa Porridge, can be regarded as a real Lapa Festival, and the Lapa Porridge of Lingyin Temple is the first choice of the public.
A bowl of Laba porridge warmed a city, and this year's Lapa Porridge added deep blessings!
Lingyin Temple boiled and distributed Laba porridge in strict accordance with the requirements of epidemic prevention and control. The people involved in the preparation of Laba porridge also underwent nucleic acid testing. The porridge delivery vehicles are also disinfected regularly to ensure that each bowl of porridge can be safely eaten.
During the LapPa period, Lingyin Temple sent Laba porridge to some pension institutions and communities in Hangzhou to express the concern of the society, and the temple no longer held Lapa Eight Porridge activities, citizens and tourists pay special attention, do not run empty!
Sweet delivery for 14 consecutive years
It has become a precious tacit understanding in the mouth of the people of Hangzhou
Every year, at the beginning of the Waxing Moon, the Lingyin Temple will open the pot on time, and the cauldron will not stop until the eighth day of the first lunar month. Starting from the early morning of January 13 (the first day of the first lunar month of Gengzi La), six steam cauldrons cooked porridge 24 hours a day, producing nearly 40,000 servings of Laba porridge every day.
This year, Lingyin Temple solicited charities and public welfare organizations (including the community) to distribute Laba porridge together, and sent the warmth of the Laba Festival to key engineering sites, railway highways, subway long-distance passenger stations, street communities, hospital nursing homes, welfare homes, etc.
Hangzhou Lingyin Temple sends six public welfare vehicles to deliver porridge to the community every day, and from the first day of the first lunar month to the eighth morning of the first lunar month, it distributes fragrant and delicious porridge to the people of Hangzhou and surrounding cities.
Hangzhou Lingyin Temple gathers social forces to jointly promote traditional folk culture, this porridge delivery tradition has been continuous for 14 years, and the score of delivery has increased from 100,000 at the beginning to more than 300,000 today.
The whole city of Hangzhou takes the delivery of la ba porridge as a link, encourages each other, communicates with each other, and wishes the New Year together.
The custom of eating porridge from the Song Dynasty
Deeply rooted in the memories of the people of Hangzhou
Hangzhou Lingyin Temple set up the "Zhejiang Lingyin Intangible Cultural Heritage Research and Protection Center", which jointly applied for the poetry and folklore related to the preaching of the Lapa Festival and the customs of the Lapa Festival of the Lingyin Temple, including the recipes and methods of the Laba Porridge.
The "Eight Festivals of Lingyin La Customs" have been selected as the sixth batch of Hangzhou Intangible Cultural Heritage and the fifth batch of Zhejiang Provincial Intangible Cultural Heritage. In 2018, Lingyin Temple was recognized as the protection unit of the "Eight Festivals of Lingyin La Customs". At present, the "Lapa Festival Customs" has completed the application for the "National Intangible Cultural Heritage List" and entered the publicity stage.
Hangzhou people eat Laba porridge from Lingyin Temple, which can be traced back to the Song Dynasty. In the "Past Events of Wulin", Zhou Mi recalled the prosperity of Lin'an (present-day Hangzhou) in the Southern Song Dynasty: "On the eighth day, the monasteries and people made porridge with walnuts, pine nuts, milk mushrooms (pronounced xùn, mushrooms), persimmons, and chestnuts (plus corn and beans), which was called 'Laba porridge'.
A bowl of Laba porridge is not only a transmission of love and warmth, but also a inheritance of China's excellent traditional culture. Master Guangquan believes that Lingyin Temple has made a lot of efforts for the modern elaboration of traditional folk festivals, with the purpose of excavating the modern significance of traditional Chinese festivals. Attach importance to and protect the far-reaching history and culture of the Chinese nation and the profound cultural resources.
The exclusive recipe of Lingyin La's eight porridges
12 kinds of ingredients are carefully distributed
The ingredients of The Laba Porridge of Lingyin Temple are rich in nutrition and must be used in 12 kinds. Peanuts, red beans, lotus seeds, cinnamon balls, red dates, dates, kidney beans, white fruits, glutinous rice, rice, osmanthus flowers, white sugar.
Ingredient ratios: red dates 1, cinnamon 1, dates 1, peanuts 1, lotus seeds 1, white fruit 1, red beans 2, kidney beans 2, glutinous rice 3, rice 5, white sugar 1, plus a small amount of osmanthus flowers, thick and fragrant glutinous.
The ingredients are carefully washed and selected, except for osmanthus and white sugar, other ingredients need to be selected, washed and dried.
For example, white fruits, hand knocked off the hard shell and then peeled and washed, steamed and cooled and then stored in the refrigerator; lotus seeds soaked in hair for three hours, changing the water once an hour; cinnamon meat also needs to be quickly washed and dried; red dates, kidney beans, peanuts, red beans, etc., need to be selected and washed.
The master of Lingyin Temple is busy at the site of Lapa Porridge every day to ensure that a bowl of Lapa Porridge is fragrant and delicious.
Lingyin Temple according to the standard of the application for the heritage to boil Lapa Porridge, boil a pot of porridge, about three and a half hours, not only is the real "kung fu porridge", but also the inheritance of the traditional "cultural porridge", only if you taste it yourself to know the fragrant glutinous self-knowledge.
Special attention:
1. Lingyin La eight porridge does not add any preservatives, and the shelf life at room temperature does not exceed 2 days. The porridge distributed daily is boiled in the early morning of the same day, please eat it in time for the general public to avoid spoilage for a long time.
2. The Laba porridge of Lingyin Temple is all packaged in an environmentally friendly aluminum foil bowl, and should not be directly heated in the microwave oven (to avoid accidents). It is recommended to pour the porridge into a commonly used cookware and heat it.