When is Laba Festival in 2019? What year does the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month fall in?

When is Laba Festival in 2019? What year does the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month fall in?
Laba Festival is on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month every year. There is a custom of eating Laba porridge on this day. So when is the Laba Festival in 2019? It is the twelfth month of the lunar calendar in 2018, and the coldest days of winter have arrived. Follow Mr. Shui Mo's website and we will accompany you through the cold winter.

When is Laba Festival in 2019?

December 8, 2018 (Lunar calendar)
January 13, 2019, Sunday, Capricorn (solar calendar)
【Today’s lunar calendar is suitable】
Pray for blessings, get married, move, bring in wealth, move into a new home, install a bed and make a stove, accept marriage proposals, build houses, fast and offer sacrifices, take up a post, seek offspring, erect pillars, raise beams, plant crops, bring in livestock, catch animals, and go to school. [Today’s taboos in the almanac]
Repair graves, bury, open warehouses, start drilling, travel, meridians, break ground

Eat Laba Congee on Laba Festival

There is a custom of eating Laba porridge on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, which is also called seven-treasure and five-flavor porridge. The history of drinking Laba porridge in my country has been more than one thousand years. It first started in the Song Dynasty. On the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, people from the imperial court, government offices, temples and ordinary households all make Laba porridge. By the Qing Dynasty, the custom of drinking Laba porridge became even more popular. In the palace, the emperor, empress, princes, etc. would give Laba porridge to civil and military ministers, attendants and palace maids, and distribute rice, fruits, etc. to various temples for the monks to eat. In the folks, every household also makes Laba porridge to worship their ancestors; at the same time, the family gathers together to eat it and give gifts to relatives and friends.
Although the ingredients of Laba porridge vary in different regions, they basically include cereals such as rice, millet, glutinous rice, sorghum rice, black rice, and coix seed, beans such as soybeans, red beans, mung beans, kidney beans, and cowpeas, and dried fruits such as red dates, peanuts, lotus seeds, wolfberries, chestnuts, walnut kernels, almonds, longans, raisins, and ginkgo nuts. Laba porridge is not only a seasonal delicacy, but also a good health product, especially suitable for maintaining the spleen and stomach in cold weather.

What zodiac sign is the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month?

The Chinese lunar calendar uses the Beginning of Spring as the node for the alternation of the zodiac signs. That is to say, the Lunar Year of the Dog in 2018 will not end until the Beginning of Spring in 2019. Therefore, according to the old almanac, the Beginning of Spring in 2019 is exactly February 4, which is the 30th day of the twelfth lunar month. Then a baby born before the 30th day of the twelfth lunar month is of the dog sign, and a baby born after the 30th day of the twelfth lunar month is of the pig sign .

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