What is the exact time of Laba Festival in the lunar calendar of 2018? Is Laba Festival a good day?
It is said that Laba Festival is a festival to commemorate the Buddha Sakyamuni's enlightenment. Laba Festival not only has Laba porridge, but also Laba garlic, Laba noodles and other traditional foods. So what is the specific time of Laba Festival in 2018? Is it a good day? If you want to know more about the twelfth month of the lunar calendar in 2018, please visit Mr. Shui Mo’s website!What is the exact time of 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, burying graves, opening warehouses, drilling, traveling, breaking ground. Six Yao: First to win. Twelve gods take over positions. On-duty god: Azure Dragon (zodiacal day). On the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month in 2018, the god on duty is the Azure Dragon, and the twelve gods gather the stars and take their positions. It is an auspicious day, so it is a good day . Laba Festival is a traditional festival rather than a solar term, so the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month in 2018 is Laba Festival. Unlike solar terms, which have fixed times. The eighth day of the twelfth lunar month is commonly known as Laba Festival. Since ancient times, Laba has been a sacrificial ceremony for ancestors and gods (including door gods, household gods, house gods, kitchen gods, and well gods) to pray for a good harvest and good luck. According to the "Book of Rites: Suburban Sacrifices", the La Festival is "in the twelfth month of the year, when all things are gathered together and offered a feast." The La Day was called "Jiaping" in the Xia Dynasty, "Qingsi" in the Shang Dynasty and "Dala" in the Zhou Dynasty; because it was held in December, that month was called the La Month and the day of the La Festival was called the La Day. In the pre-Qin period, Laba Festival was on the third Xu day after the winter solstice. Later, when Buddhism was introduced, in order to expand its influence in the local area, it attached to traditional culture and designated Laba Festival as the day of Buddha's enlightenment. Later, as Buddhism became popular, the Buddha's Enlightenment Day was merged with the La Festival, and it was called the "Dharma Treasure Festival" in the Buddhist field. It was not until the Northern and Southern Dynasties that it was fixed on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. Eat Laba Congee on Laba FestivalThere 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. |
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