When is Laba Festival in the lunar calendar of 2018? What are the taboos of Laba Festival?
Laba Festival is a traditional folk festival in China, also known as Laba Festival, Laba Festival, Wanghou La or Buddha's Enlightenment Day. So when is the Laba Festival in the lunar calendar of 2018? The twelfth month of the lunar calendar is also known as the twelfth month, or the wax month. So what are the things to do and not to do in the twelfth month? Visit Shui Mo Xiansheng's website to learn more about the twelfth lunar month of 2018.When is Laba Festival in the lunar calendar of 2018?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] Repairing graves, burials, opening warehouses, drilling, traveling, breaking ground and opening businesses. On this day, there is a custom of eating Laba porridge, which is also called Seven Treasures and Five Flavors 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. What are the taboos of Laba Festival?1. Taoism records that people are not allowed to get married or have gatherings on Laba Festival. The eighth day of the twelfth lunar month is the day for kings and princes to celebrate. The Five Emperors determined the places where people were born, the divisions of land where they received blessings, and sent down 36,000 spirits. On this day, one can apologize for sins, pray for longevity, appease the gods, change one's reputation and position, change poverty, bathe, offer sacrifices to ancestors, hold grand offerings to the heavenly officials, and all wishes will be granted and those seeking the truth will be sure to obtain it. No gatherings or drinking are allowed on this day. You can walk quietly in the mountains or forests where there are altars, and recite theicas while walking. Your three souls and seven spirits should not be involved in worldly affairs. This is done on the twelfth day of the lunar month .2. Don’t move house on Laba Festival . There is a folk custom of not moving house on Laba Festival. People in Zhejiang province avoid moving house in the first or ninth month, as they believe that these months are unlucky. From the perspective of Feng Shui, the twelfth lunar month is relatively cold. If you move into a new house rashly, the cold atmosphere will block the prosperous atmosphere in your home. In ancient my country, people generally did not like to move. As the saying goes, "Moving makes people poor and moving puts out fire." However, there may be special circumstances where you have to move, such as a natural disaster or other force majeure factors. In this case, it is believed that "a tree that is not moved will die, but a person who moves will live", so there is a saying that when moving, "abandon the old house and build a new one". 3. Not going back to your parents’ home on Laba Festival. According to the old saying, there are always a few days in a year when a married daughter cannot go back to her parents’ home. It is said to be a taboo and has its own rules. Since the beginning of the twelfth lunar month, the first taboo day is Laba. Going back to your mother's home on Laba Day will bring bad luck to your mother-in-law, as she will die lying prone in a hundred years. Another saying goes: "If you don't eat rice from your mother's home on Laba Festival, your ancestors will not be able to pay it back", which means that your family will become poor. Some even believe that you cannot spend the twelfth lunar month at your parents’ home on the 8th, 18th, and 28th. 4. Don’t eat Laba porridge before noon. The eighth day of the twelfth lunar month is called Laba in folk customs. Since then, the "flavor of the New Year" has become increasingly stronger. The custom of eating Laba porridge on Laba Festival has a history of thousands of years in my country and has a unique origin. Regarding the habit of eating Laba porridge, there is a taboo in some places, that is, eating Laba porridge before noon. Every year, people start cooking Laba porridge the night before Laba Festival and eat it the next morning. If they cannot finish it, they can share it with relatives, friends, and neighbors, but not after noon. There is a saying that goes "Eat porridge early and the harvest will come early next year." |
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