This Sunday is Laba, a traditional Chinese holiday celebrated on the eight of the La Month, the twelfth month of the Chinese Lunar Calendar. Aside from eating laba congee, people in northern China ...

BEIJING, Sept. 23 (Xinhua) -- Chinese researchers have found that the traditional Chinese Laba garlic has three types of active peptides that can destroy bacteria, suggesting they might be a promising ...

Children learn to make the Laba garlic in Xingtai, north China's Hebei Pprovince. (XINHUA photo) The Laba Festival, celebrated on the eighth day of the 12th lunar month, falls on January 24th this ...

The Laba Festival falls on the eighth day of the 12th month on the Chinese calendar. Listed as a national intangible cultural heritage in 2021, it is one of the important traditional festivals in ...

This year, Laba Day, December 8 in to the lunar calendar, will fall on Tuesday, January 11. Celebrating traditionally involves a bowl of Laba porridge among both northerners and southerners, while ...

Chinese people start their preparations for the Spring Festival more than 20 days ahead. The 12th lunar month in Chinese is called la yue, so the eighth day of this lunar month is la yue chu ba, or ...

In the pre-dawn hours of this coming Wednesday, devotees will gather in the dark kitchen of Nan Tien in Wollongong, the largest Buddhist temple in the Southern Hemisphere, to make congee. Chinese ...

BEIJING, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- The Laba Festival, celebrated on the eighth day of the 12th month of the lunar Chinese calendar, falls on Jan. 24 this year. It is traditionally regarded as the prelude to ...