After the Laba Festival comes the New Year
Laba porridge, also known as "Seven Treasures and Five Flavors Porridge", "Buddha'sridge", and "Communal Meal", is a type of porridge made from a variety of ingredients. The earliest written record of Laba porridge back to the Song Dynasty.
The Southern Song Dynasty Wu Zhimu's "Dream of the Liang Dynasty" records: "On eighth day of this month, temples call it Laba. Major temples all set up five flavors of porridge, called Laba porridge." The history of Laba porridge in China has been over a thousand years.
Lily represents "harmony and beauty"
Longan represents "reunion and"
Chestnut represents "great fortune and auspiciousness"
A bowl of seemingly ordinary Laba porridge
Conveys peoples best wishes
And all the fatigue and annoyances of the past year
Are also gradually melted in this bowl of hot porridge
The wisdom health preservation is also in this bowl of porridge
The ingredients of Laba porridge are rich and diverse, usually including red beans, coix seed, glutinous rice, lotus seeds and jujubes, which are traditional food and medicine. Each ingredient has its own characteristics, such as:
Coix seed: Strengthens theleen and promotes diuresis, suitable for people with weak spleen and stomach.
Glutinous rice: Warms the spleen and benefits qi helps to tonify the middle-jiao and benefit the qi, and nourishes the spleen and stomach.
Red bean: Strengthens spleen and promotes diuresis, and has the effect of promoting diuresis and reducing swelling.
Jujube: Benefits qi and nourishes blood, strengthens the spleen, and is a fine product in dietary therapy.
Lotus seed: Strengthens the spleen and stops, nourishes the heart and tranquilizes the mind, especially suitable for insomnia patients.
In addition, according to personal constitution, you can also add health-promoting ingredients to the Laba porridge. For example, people with poor digestion can add Chinese yam, because it can tonify the spleen and, nourish the lung and benefit the kidney; insomnia patients can choose longan pulp, sour jujube kernel, ganoderma lucidum and tranquilizing ingredients to promote sleep quality.
1. Children: In the critical growth period, the Laba porridge should include
a variety of ingredients to meet nutritional needs. However it is necessary
to avoid excessive beans to prevent indigestion.
2. Elderly: With weakened digestive function, the Laba porridge should be
cooked and tender for easy absorption. You can add appropriate amount
of yam, pumpkin and other spleen-strengthening ingredients, and reduce
the proportion of beans
3. Women: If there is insufficient blood and qi, you can add more red dates,
red beans and other blood-enriching ingredients;
those with a weak constitution, you can increase the health-preserving
ingredients such as chestnuts and lotus seeds.
4. Diabetic patients: Need to control the intake of sugar, you can choose
low glycemic index ingredients such as oats, buckwheat, etc.,
the proportion of beans should be than half, and control blood sugar.
5. People with weak spleen and stomach: It is appropriate to choose
spleen-strengthening ingredients as coix seed, yam, etc.,
and cook porridge with millet, appetizing and dampness.
6. People with lung qi: You can add Chenpi, Lily and other
lung-nourishing ingredients to the millet porridge to relieve cough symptoms.
7. People with kidney deficiency: Walnut, black rice and other
ingredients help to nourish the kidney qi and improve symptoms
such as fear of cold and frequent urination at night
Taboo of eating Laba porridge
1. Patients with gastroesophageal reflux and duodenal ulcer: Drink less sweet porridge to avoid aggravating condition. 2. Overweight people: Control the amount of food, reduce the consumption of easily digestible ingredients such as white rice, and add more beans a strong sense of satiety, such as kidney beans. 3. Patients with fatty liver and hyperlipidemia: Eat in moderation to avoid excessive calories 4. Patients with cirrhosis and esophageal and gastric varices: Try to avoid eating, especially the kind of Laba porridge nuts, to prevent bleeding risks. Laba porridge, a bowl of traditional and healthy porridge, brings us warmth and nourishment in the cold winter While enjoying the delicious taste, we should also choose ingredients and control the amount of food reasonably according to our health conditions, so that Laba porridge can become our choice to taste tradition and gain health.
