To drinking rice porridge with nuts and dried fruit eaten on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month consuetudinary, probably a lot of people are not reasonable.
对于喝腊八粥的习俗，或许很多人都不明白。
According to legend a long time ago, garden temple came to Suzhou on the west one calls A the bonze of 2. Old abbot lets him do do ” of sundry “ flame monk, clean out rice technically for everybody, wash dish, make a fire, cook. He very economize, see the commissariat that scatters on the ground every time, collect carefully rise, put in a tailor-made large bag. Day of with the passing of time is long, unexpectedly assemble full the commissariat of one large bag.
相传很久以前，苏州西园寺来了一个叫阿二的和尚。老方丈让他做干杂物的“火头僧”，专门为大家淘米、洗菜、烧火、做饭。他十分勤俭节约，每次看到散落在地上的粮食，便小心地捡起来，放到一个特制的大口袋里。日久天长，竟攒了满满一大口袋的粮食。
At the beginning of the twelfth month of the lunar year 8, garden temple is holding royal law job on the west, very lively. Rapid move goes to the old monk that can be in charge of storehouse recite scriptures, forgot to take rice food unexpectedly! This can be over, everybody finishs law thing is returned waiting to have a meal! A 20 minutes anxious. Suddenly, a 2 saw that large bag, composition brainwave easily, that a bag big commissariat after pan is clean, ground of a head was put into boiler to boil.
一次腊月初八，西园寺正在举行盛大的法事，十分热闹。可管仓库的大和尚急着去念经，居然忘了把米粮取出来！这可完了，大家做完法事还等着吃饭呢！阿二十分着急。忽然，阿二看见了那个大口袋，作文灵机一动，便把那一大袋的粮食淘洗干净后，一股脑地放进锅里煮了起来。
Time of serve a meal arrived. Bonze people the bowl since end looks, day! This what thing! Gruel unlike gruel, cooked rice of cooked rice unlike, what plays inside meaning have. But everybody is tasted, feel very good to eat, contending for fill in the bowl toward oneself. Old abbot also feels very feel puzzled, what is asking A 2 boiled things. A 2 also do not have a bottom originally, see everybody love to eat very much, put down a heart to come, discussed its course to old abbot. Old abbot is very glad, complimentary still he.
开饭时间到了。和尚们端起碗一看，天哪！这什么东西啊！稀粥不像稀粥，干饭不像干饭，里面啥玩意都有。可大家一尝，都觉得很好吃，都争着往自己的碗里盛。老方丈也觉得很纳闷，问阿二煮的东西是什么。阿二本来就也没底，看大家都很爱吃，便放下心来，向老方丈讲了一遍事情的经过。老方丈很高兴，还夸奖了他。
Then bonze people together consultative, later annual at the beginning of December 8 should take this kind of rice porridge with nuts and dried fruit eaten on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. Later,
于是和尚们一起商议，以后每年的12月初八都要吃这种腊八粥。后来，逐渐形成了腊八节吃腊八粥的习俗。(文/郑浩宇)