Origin of the festival
Chinese culture has a long history. Where does Laba Festival originate?
According to legend, the founder of Buddhism Shakyamuni, on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, the night to see the star and realize the Buddha. The eighth day of December is the day of Buddha Sakyamuni's enlightenment. People in order not to forget the Buddha into the road before the suffering also in order to commemorate the Buddha in the eighth day of the twelfth month, the eighth day of the twelfth month to eat mixed porridge as a memorial. Laba Festival is also known as Laba festival, Laba festival, king or Buddha into the day, the original ancient celebration of harvest, thank the ancestors and gods (including door God, household God, house God, kitchen God, well God) sacrificial ceremony, in addition to ancestor worship God activities, people also have to follow the disease. This activity comes from the ancient Nuo (ancient exorcism to avoid disease ceremony).
Laba Festival was later also rendered by people with special traditional colors. One of the medical methods used in prehistoric times was exorcism. As a witchcraft activity, the custom of beating drums to repel epidemics is still retained in Xinhua and other areas of Hunan Province. Later, it evolved into a religious festival to commemorate Buddha Sakyamuni's enlightenment. The Xia Dynasty called La "Jiaping", the Shang Dynasty "Qing Si", and the Zhou Dynasty "big wax"; Because it is held in December, it is called the twelfth month, and it is called the Twelfth day. The twelfth day of the twelfth month in the early Qin Dynasty was the third day after the winter solstice, and the eighth day of the twelfth month was fixed in the beginning of the Northern and Southern Dynasties.
What to eat on Laba Festival
Laba Festival is an important traditional festival, which not only makes people feel a strong traditional cultural atmosphere, but also a time for family reunion and praying together.
Laba porridge: After the Laba porridge boiled, we must first worship God and worship ancestors. After that, you have to give it to friends and family, and you have to give it out before noon. Last but not least for the whole family. The leftover Laba porridge, saved for a few days and left over, is a good sign, take its "year after year" meaning. If you give porridge to poor people to eat, it is for their own virtue. Some places do not produce or produce less rice, people do not eat Laba porridge, but eat Laba noodles. Use a variety of fruits, vegetables to make minced meat, put the noodles. To the eighth morning of the twelfth month the whole family eats together.
Laba garlic: Laba represents the New Year, but also represents the last few days of the year, and the garlic word represents the liquidation, this is a homophone of a word, is to do a year of liquidation when the year-end summary, a year has passed, we also have to thoroughly calculate, this year we got what, so the meaning of Laba garlic was born, It's a year of reckoning with our gains and losses.
Children, children, don't be greedy;
After the Laba is the year;
Laba porridge, drink a few days; Straight-and-straight-out twenty-three; Twenty-three, sweet melon sticky; Twenty-four, the day of the sweep; Twenty-five, ground tofu; Twenty-six, to buy meat; Twenty-seven, slaughter the cock; Twenty-eight, the face hair; Twenty-nine, steamed bread; Thirty nights up; The first, the second day of the street...
