Laba porridge

In the early years, there was such a family of four, an old couple and two sons. The old couple are very diligent, and they work in the fields all the year round. Plough in spring, hoe in summer and harvest in autumn, and work hard for the day. All kinds of food stored at home are big and small. There is also a big jujube tree in their yard. The old couple carefully cultivated the jujube, which was crisp and sweet. When they collected it and sold it, they could sell a lot of money, and they lived a very rich life. The old couple kept running for their lives in order to marry their two sons. Seeing that his son is getting old enough to marry his wife, the old couple are getting old and dying. When his father died, he told his brothers to plant crops well. When the old mother died, she told her brothers to take good care of the jujube trees in the courtyard and save money for a wife. A family of four is now left with only two brothers to live. My brother saw this large hoard of grain and said to his younger brother, "We have so much grain, that's enough. Let's take a year off this year!" " The younger brother said, "This jujube tree is not tight this year. Anyway, we don't lack dates to eat." In this way, the two brothers are getting lazy and greedy. Just knowing that you eat, drink, and be merry year after year, you eat up all the food in a few years. The jujube trees in the courtyard are getting worse and worse every year. This year is the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, and there is really nothing to eat at home. What should I do? My brother found a small broom, and my brother brought a small dustpan, which he swept in the cracks of the big store and the small store where the grain was previously stored. He swept a handful of yellow rice grains from here and found a handful of red beans from there. In this way, a few grains were gathered together, and the number was small, but there were many samples. Finally, he found a few dried red dates and put them in the pot to cook together. After cooking, the two brothers began to eat the porridge made up of whole grains, and their eyes looked at each other, only to remember what their parents said before they died, and they regretted it very much. The two brothers suffered from laziness, and after losing their children, they all worked hard the next year. Like their parents, they lived a good life again in a few years, married a daughter-in-law and had children. In order to learn the lesson of laziness, people should never forget to live diligently and frugally. Since then, on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, people have eaten porridge cooked with whole grains. Because this day is the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, people call it Laba porridge.
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