Is Laba Festival a traditional festival? Is the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month in 2019 a good date for Laba Festival?

Is Laba Festival a traditional festival? Is the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month in 2019 a good date for Laba Festival?
Introduction: Laba Festival is also one of the important festivals. So is Laba Festival a traditional festival? Is the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month in 2019 a good date for Laba Festival? Want to know more about the twelfth lunar month of 2019? Please pay attention to Shuimoxiansheng.com’s special topic for the twelfth month of the lunar calendar!

Is Laba Festival a traditional festival?

Laba Festival is a festival of the Han nationality and a traditional Chinese festival.
Laba Festival, commonly known as "Laba", is the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. The ancients had the tradition of worshiping their ancestors and gods and praying for a good harvest and good luck. In some areas, there is a custom of drinking Laba porridge.

According to legend, this day is the day when Buddha Shakyamuni attained enlightenment, and is called the "Dharma Treasure Festival", which is one of the grand festivals in Buddhism.
Laba Festival falls on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month every year, and the main custom is drinking Laba porridge. Laba Festival is one of the grand festivals in Buddhism.
Sakyamuni, the founder of Buddhism, attained enlightenment and became a Buddha on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month after seeing a star at night. The eighth day of the twelfth lunar month is the day when Buddha Shakyamuni attained enlightenment. It is also known as the "Dharma Treasure Festival", "Buddha's Enlightenment Festival" and "Enlightenment Meeting".
In order to remember the sufferings 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 as a commemoration.
Ever since Buddhism was introduced to China, temples have made porridge with fragrant grains and fruits and given it to disciples and believers. On the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, various temples hold ceremonies, imitating the story of the shepherdess offering gruel to the Buddha before his enlightenment. They use fragrant grains and fruits to cook porridge as an offering to the Buddha, which is called Laba porridge.
It is said that after drinking this kind of porridge, one can get the blessing of Buddha. Therefore, Laba porridge is also called "Longevity and Fortune Porridge", "Blessed Virtue Porridge", and "Buddha Porridge". "Laba" was originally a Buddhist festival, but after generations of evolution, it gradually became a household folk festival.

Is the Laba Festival on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month in 2019 a good date?

2019 December 8th Laba Festival lunar calendar query:
Lunar calendar:
December 8, 2019
Gregorian calendar: Thursday, January 2, 2020, Capricorn
[Today's calendar] Pray for blessings, get married, break ground, take office, offer sacrifices, seek heirs, release, bury, collect wealth, erect pillars, raise beams, plant, open the market, set up tickets, seek wealth, fast and offer sacrifices, enroll in school, tailor clothes, and wear hairpins.
[Today's taboos in the almanac] Separation, migration, housewarming, lawsuits, building houses, bridges, embankments, livestock, warehouses, property, boating, travel, military training, medical treatment
From the above content, we can know that the number of taboos in today's old almanac exceeds 10, so Laba Festival on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month in 2019 is not an auspicious day!

What is Laba Congee?

In some places in my country, there is a custom of drinking Laba porridge on the Laba day. Although the ingredients of Laba porridge vary from region to region, they basically include cereals such as rice, millet, glutinous rice, sorghum rice, black rice, coix seed, beans such as soybeans, red beans, mung beans, kidney beans, cowpeas, and dried fruits such as red dates, peanuts, lotus seeds, wolfberries, chestnuts, walnut kernels, almonds, longans, raisins, and ginkgo nuts.
The earliest Laba porridge was made with red beans. Later, it evolved and became more colorful with the addition of local characteristics. Zhou Mi, a scholar in the Southern Song Dynasty, wrote in "Wulin Jiushi": "The porridge made with walnuts, pine nuts, milk mulberry, persimmon, chestnut and the like is called Laba porridge." Fu Cha Dunchong, a Qing Dynasty writer, said in "Yanjing Sui Shi Ji" that "Laba porridge is made with yellow rice, white rice, glutinous rice, millet, water chestnut rice, chestnut, peeled date paste, etc., boiled with water, and dyed with red peach kernels, almonds, melon seeds, peanuts, hazelnuts, pine nuts, white sugar, brown sugar, and grapes for coloring", which is quite characteristic of the Beijing city.

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