When is the Laba Festival this year? On which day of the lunar calendar is Laba Festival?
There is a custom of eating Laba porridge on the Laba Festival. So when is the Laba Festival this year? On which day of the lunar calendar does Laba Festival fall? The twelfth month of the lunar calendar is the end of the year and the coldest time of winter. As the proverb says: It is cold to speak so harshly. Follow Mr. Shui Mo's website and we will accompany you through the cold winter.When is Laba Festival this year?December 8, 2018 (Lunar calendar)January 13, 2019, Sunday, Capricorn (solar calendar) Laba Festival is on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month every year . On that day, people will eat traditional foods such as Laba porridge to celebrate. This custom has a long history in China. People will go to more famous temples to worship gods in order to ward off evil spirits and pray for peace for their families for the whole year. The ancients offered sacrifices to their ancestors and gods on this day, praying for a good harvest and good luck. According to legend, this day is the day when Sakyamuni, the founder of Buddhism, attained enlightenment under the Bodhi tree and founded Buddhism, which is the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. Therefore, it is also called "Buddha's Enlightenment Day." 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. Historical records of Laba Festival:Regardless of the origin of the legend, Laba Festival is a special festival in China. There is a folk saying that "after Laba Festival, it is the New Year", so Laba porridge is indispensable on this day. In the Southern Song Dynasty, Lu You wrote in his poem "Walking to West Village on December 8th": "The breeze in the twelfth month is gentle and the feeling of spring has arrived. From time to time I take a walk and visit my neighbors. There is a hazy smoke from the grass behind the wooden door and there are many cow tracks by the wild water. Many diseases require only medicine, and those who do not take any medicine are idlers. Today, people are sharing Buddha porridge, which makes the festival items in the river village seem even newer." This shows that Laba Festival was already a very popular festival in the Southern Song Dynasty. "Shuowen Jiezi" records: "On the third Xu day after the winter solstice, sacrifices are offered to all gods." It can be seen that the third Xu day after the winter solstice was once the La Day. Later, due to the intervention of Buddhism, the La Day was changed to the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, and it has become a custom since then. |
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