Looking at consumption before the festival ｜ Wuxi, Jiangsu： The taste of rice wine brewed with Laba porridge is getting stronger.

CCTV News:The eighth day of the twelfth lunar month is approaching. In Yangshan Town, Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province, every household is also busy, cooking Laba porridge, brewing rice wine and steaming dumplings to prepare for the upcoming Lunar New Year.

At the entrance of Yangshan Town, Wuxi, Jiangsu, every household has set up a cauldron to cook Laba porridge, in which glutinous rice, red beans, peanuts, lotus seeds, pine nuts, etc. are added, and the most special thing is that ribs are added, and finally salty Laba porridge is cooked.

In Jiangnan area, besides boiling Laba porridge, steaming dumplings, making rice cakes and making rice wine are all "reserved items" before the New Year. In the twelfth lunar month, every household in the village will choose the newly harvested glutinous rice or rice, invite the winemaker to the village, and turn the bumper harvest of the year into a cup of mellow wine on the table.

With the improvement of people’s living standards, the selection of raw materials for these traditional snacks is also more particular. However, no matter how it changes, Laba porridge always holds a good wish of looking forward to ample food and clothing in the coming year. The dumplings symbolize reunion, and the rice cake symbolizes step by step. The whole family will treat themselves to a year of hard work around steaming food and wait for the coming year with great expectation.