What is the origin of Laba Festival? Is the day before Laba Festival in 2021 a good day?

What is the origin of Laba Festival? Is the day before Laba Festival in 2021 a good day?
Introduction: The origin of each festival is different, so [What is the origin of Laba Festival and is the day before Laba Festival in 2021 a good day] follow the editor to find out. In the twelfth month of the lunar calendar in 2020, the severe winter is approaching, heralding the arrival of the new year. As the saying goes, a new year brings new hope. Let’s follow Mr. Shui Mo to find out the good and bad luck of the new day.

What is the origin of Laba Festival?

The founder of Buddhism, Sakyamuni, whose real name was Siddhartha Gautama, was the son of King Suddhodana of Kapilavastu in northern ancient India (now in Nepal). When he was young, he saw that all living beings were suffering from birth, old age, sickness and death. In order to seek the true meaning of life and liberation from life and death, he gave up his royal life and became a monk. He practiced asceticism in the snow mountains for six years, often eating only one grain of wheat and one grain of hemp a day. Later, he found that blind asceticism was not the way to liberation, so he gave up asceticism and went down the mountain.
At this time, a shepherdess saw that he was very weak, so she boiled chyle (made by cooking milk and grains) to feed him. Sakyamuni's physical strength was thus restored, and he then entered into meditation under the Bodhi tree for seven days. On the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, he saw a star at night and attained enlightenment and became a Buddha.
In order to remember the six years of suffering that the Buddha endured before he attained enlightenment, and also to commemorate the Buddha's enlightenment on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, the ancient Indians ate mixed porridge on this day as a commemoration. Therefore, Laba Festival was introduced to China from ancient India, and Laba became the Buddha's enlightenment day. After Buddhism was introduced into my country, temples were built in various places and the activity of cooking porridge to worship Buddha became popular. Especially on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, the day to commemorate the Buddha's enlightenment, all temples would hold sutra chanting sessions and cook porridge to worship Buddha, imitating the legendary ritual of the shepherdess offering a kind of "chyle" before the Buddha's enlightenment. This is the origin of Laba porridge.

Is the day before Laba Festival 2021 a good day?

Lunar calendar: December 7, 2020 Gregorian calendar: January 19, 2021, Tuesday, Capricorn [Today's old almanac is suitable] Hiding treasure, marrying a son-in-law, traveling, planting, moving into a new home, litigation, starting drilling, removing mourning clothes, burying, seeking offspring, raising livestock, tailoring clothes, meridians [Today's old almanac is unsuitable] Fasting, praying, offering sacrifices, raising beams and pillars, installing doors, building houses, making stoves, releasing water, receiving livestock, repairing, breaking ground, building embankments, accepting betrothal gifts, opening the market, seeking wealth, migrating, accepting wealth, taking office, getting married
——Based on the contents of the old almanac, it can be known that since the number of taboos in the almanac exceeds 10, the day before Laba Festival in 2021 is not an auspicious day. There is a folk song about Laba Festival in southeastern Shanxi called "After Laba comes the New Year": "Children, don't be greedy, after Laba comes the New Year. Eat Laba porridge for a few days, it will be the 23rd."
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