考雅思，出国留学，移民，工作，无论你考雅思是为了什么，难免你会遇到需要给雅思考官，你的外国同学，同事等解释中国风俗文化的时候。

明天是腊月初八，咱们中国的腊八节。你是不是考虑可以把这个节日，美食介绍给你的雅思口语考官呢？

要是你也还不清楚，那我先给你扫扫盲。但是那必须是以练习你的雅思阅读为前提的！

• 雅思阅读

Tomorrow is the eighth day of the 12th lunar month on the traditional Chinese calendar. It is also the Laba Festival, in Chinese, Laba means ‘gold eighth’ and refers to the traditional start of celebrations for the Chinese New Year.

On this day a special hot rice porridge, called Laba Zhou, is eaten, which contains glutinous rice, red beans, millet, Chinese sorghum, peas and some other ingredients, such as dried dates, chestnut meat, walnut meat, almond, peanut, dried lotus seeds and etc. Eating porridge on Laba is believed to bring good fortune in the New Year. The flavor varies from place to place, in the North, it is a dessert with sugar added; in the South, salt and seasonal vegetables are put in.

This tradition has its roots in the Buddhist faith. It is said when Sakyamuni left home and strived for virtue, he fainted on the way because of hunger and tiredness. A shepherdess passing by saved him and cooked for him some porridge with glutinous rice and nuts. Then Sakyamuni sat under a bodhi tree in meditation and found Buddhism. So later the believers formed the habit of cooking Laba Zhou to commemorate it.

• 结合雅思口语考试，练习雅思口语高分公式，回答下面问题：

What do you normally do on LaBa festival?

• 答题思路：

- What you do on LaBa festival.

- How often do you do these things.

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