Laba festival celebrated with free porridge

(chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2008-01-15 16:15

 
 
Cooks prepare Laba porridge made of 29 ingredients in the kitchen in Yonghegong Lama Temple before serving it to local residents in Beijing, January 15, 2008. Laba festival falls on the eighth day of the 12th month according to the Lunar calendar. It is a Buddhist tradition of more than 1,000 years in China to eat porridge on Laba, the day Sakyamuni achieved immortality. [chinadaily.com.cn] Video 
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