Jiangnan Babao Vegetable Porridge Making Skills is a traditional skill item in the third batch of representative items of Changzhou's municipal intangible cultural heritage. Changzhou Jiangnan Babao Vegetable Porridge is inherited from Laba Porridge. "Laba" (the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month), also known as "Laba Festival", is a custom of eating Laba Porridge in Changzhou. In the old days, the Tianning Temple in Changzhou was always kind and generous, and the Laba custom of "cooking porridge in a copper pot to benefit the people" was known. For hundreds of years, Changzhou people not only cook Laba Porridge on Laba Festival, but also have the habit of cooking rice, vegetable and grain porridge all year round. Therefore, the skills of cooking rice, vegetable and grain porridge are becoming more and more sophisticated. During the Republic of China, the famous "Eight Immortals Porridge Shop" opened near Huimin Bridge in Changzhou City, providing customers with high-quality vegetable porridge. Every time outsiders go to the "Eight Immortals Porridge Shop" to satisfy their cravings, they will never forget it. After the production skills were passed down to the contemporary Zhou Zeqing, he established Jiangsu Caigenxiang Catering Chain Co., Ltd. as a base to produce and supply the authentic Jiangnan Eight Treasures Vegetable Congee all year round. Changzhou Jiangnan Eight Treasures Vegetable Congee inherits the production skills of Laba Congee, and is made by boiling more than eight kinds of local specialty foods of Jiangnan, including rice, vegetables, fruits and grains. The main ingredients of vegetable congee are selected high-quality fragrant glutinous rice, fragrant glutinous rice, green vegetables, soybeans, peanuts, chestnuts, lotus seeds, broad beans, fennel sprouts, kidney beans, red beans, taro, fresh and salty lean pork mince, original bone soup, vegetable oil, etc. Among them, the company has a vegetable cultivation base of more than 200 acres, and the varieties are mainly Shanghai green with more leaves and fewer stems, thus implementing a green channel from field planting to factory boiling, ensuring the fresh taste and nutritional content of the green vegetables. The vegetable porridge made by unique technology is bright in color and beautiful in texture. It is crystal clear, the eight treasures are crispy, fragrant and delicious, thick in the mouth, smooth and delicate, rich in nutrition, and has many functions such as benefiting the body, strengthening the stomach, replenishing qi, clearing the heart, calming the nerves, and nourishing blood. It is the culmination of the folk porridge made of cereals, fruits and grains for thousands of years. Jiangnan Eight Treasures Vegetable Porridge contains many connotations of food culture. It not only embodies the historical folk culture of Laba porridge, but also reflects the special flavor food culture of the Jiangnan region, and meets the dietary requirements of health care that people generally pursue. Jiangsu Caigenxiang Catering Co., Ltd., which has been rated as a "Chinese Famous Restaurant", mainly sells Jiangnan Eight Treasures Vegetable Porridge. Its chain stores are distributed in Changzhou area with more than 100. Jiangnan Eight Treasures Vegetable Porridge was rated as a "Jiangsu Famous Snack" by the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Trade and Jiangsu Cooking Association in 1999. In 2000, it was designated as a Chinese Famous Snack Promotion Variety by the State Bureau of Domestic Trade. It has participated in Changzhou Tourism Festival and Food Festival many times and won the honor of famous snacks and famous snacks. On April 1, 2001, China Food News introduced Jiangnan Eight Treasure Vegetable Porridge to the whole country with the headline "A Bowl of Porridge in Changzhou", calling it "China's First Convenient Vegetable Porridge". (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.) (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.)