The old Hangzhou people must eat a bowl of Laba porridge which is uniformly distributed by Lingyin Temple on the day of Laba Festival. The Laba porridge in Lingyin Temple is unique. Every year, the Lingyin Temple will boil 300000 Laba porridge for free to Hangzhou citizens. Where will it be distributed this year?
Lingyin Temple Laba Festival porridge place is there porridge in Lingyin Temple this year
The porridge for Laba Festival in Lingyin Temple was cancelled. It is expected that the same will be true this year.
Lingyin Temple and Laba porridge
Laba Festival is an ancient festival in China. The tradition of Laba porridge in Lingyin Temple has a long history. Su Dongpo, the great poet of Song Dynasty, and other historical celebrities have personally tasted Laba porridge in Lingyin Temple, and were moved by the warmth between people conveyed by this hot porridge. He wrote in his poem about the temple: "the high hall will eat Luo Qianfu, and the bell will beat the drum and make the sound towards the bottom.". In the dream of the West Lake, Zhang Dai of the Ming Dynasty also recorded that in the Xiangji kitchen of Lingyin Temple, three copper pots were first made, in which three loads of rice were boiled and thousands of people could eat.
In ancient times, the monks in Lingyin Temple cooked porridge with extra beans and rice noodles to help the poor survive the cold winter and express their gratitude to the people. With the development of economic level, the significance of Laba porridge to help the poor is fading, but its spirit of "gratitude" has been explored and developed.
In recent years, Lingyin Temple has been promoting Laba Festival to declare intangible cultural heritage. In 2016, 'Lingyin Laba Festival custom' was selected into Hangzhou Municipal intangible cultural heritage list. At the "ten thousand & middot; Laba Heritage -- 2017 Hangzhou Laba Festival Cultural Forum" held on January 5, master Guangquan, the abbot of Lingyin Temple, revealed that "Lingyin Laba Festival custom" had recently been upgraded to a first-class intangible cultural heritage project in Zhejiang Province.
Guangquan said that the custom of Laba Festival is an excellent cultural heritage. Lingyin Temple, as an ancient temple with thousands of years, should undertake the historical mission of inheriting and carrying forward Laba culture. At present, Lingyin Temple is preparing for Laba culture to apply for national intangible cultural heritage, and in the future, it will also apply for world-class intangible cultural heritage.
Lingyin Temple and Laba porridge
Introduction to the ingredients of Laba porridge in Lingyin Temple, Hangzhou
The eight materials of Laba porridge are the best: red dates are small red dates; red beans are big red (because the purple red skin is thick, and the firing time is long); longan is with shell and longan, the natural color; honey dates are medium-sized (the big ones are not sweet and hard); peanuts are red peanuts; lotus seeds are with core; and white fruits are fresh with shell.
Making of Laba porridge in Lingyin Temple, Hangzhou
Lingyin Temple attaches great importance to the health and safety issues in the production process of Laba porridge. Each gate of the production site of Laba porridge is kept closed and volunteers are arranged to be responsible for guarding. Only designated personnel can enter, and the rest are forbidden to enter.
In addition, volunteers who take part in the production of Laba porridge have to go through formal physical examination and apply for health certificate. Those who pass the physical examination are required to go to work every day to check their health problems, and to check their personal hygiene, such as: fingernails, hats, masks and whether their hands are cracked. Personnel who find problems are forbidden to enter the production workshop. Those who pass the inspection shall make data backup, and the data of qualified personnel shall be sent to the personnel office of the passenger hall for filing.
In Laba porridge cooking and packaging are also strictly checked, Laba porridge generally cool through time is 5 hours in the daytime, more than 2 hours in the evening. 45 degree angle tilt, porridge does not slide proof has been cool, can cover. 20 minutes after the cover is closed, if there is any steam water drop, it means that it is not cool thoroughly; the packing box of Laba porridge is tested and inspected, if any problem is found, it is timely fed back to the warehouse; the samples are kept twice a day in the refrigerator, and the time is recorded.
Precautions for Lingyin Laba porridge:
Lingyin Laba porridge does not add any preservatives, and the shelf life at room temperature is not more than 2 days. The porridge distributed every day is cooked in the early morning of that day. Please eat it in time to avoid deterioration.
Laba porridge is all packaged in more environmentally friendly aluminum foil bowls. Do not put it directly into the microwave oven for heating. It is recommended to heat the porridge in a common cooker.