What should we do on Laba Festival? What is the origin of Laba Festival?
Introduction: There are many traditional festivals in our country's traditional culture, so there are also many customs and etiquette. So what should we do on Laba Festival and what is the origin of Laba Festival? Want to know more about the twelfth lunar month of 2018? Please pay attention to Shuimoxiansheng.com’s special topic for the twelfth month of the lunar calendar!What should we do on Laba Festival?Laba Festival Customs: Drinking Laba Porridge <br /> Drinking Laba Porridge on Laba Festival is a custom that everyone knows. In ancient times, on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, there was a custom among Chinese people to drink "Laba Porridge" or eat "Laba Rice". According to ancient texts, in "Yanjing Sui Shi Ji•Laba Congee" by Fu Cha Dun Chong, "Laba Congee is made with yellow rice, white rice, glutinous rice, millet, water chestnut rice, chestnut, red cowpea, peeled jujube paste, etc., boiled with water, and then dyed with red peach kernels, almonds, melon seeds, peanuts, hazelnuts, pine nuts, white sugar, brown sugar, and grapes for coloring."Laba Festival customs: worshipping ancestors and gods <br /> Laba Festival is on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. In ancient times, Laba Festival was a sacrificial ceremony to celebrate the harvest and thank ancestors and gods. In addition to worshiping ancestors and gods, the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month is regarded by the Buddhist community as the Buddha's enlightenment day. Therefore, temples hold commemorative ceremonies and cook porridge with eight kinds of food, such as glutinous rice, sesame, coix seed, longan, red dates, mushrooms, and lotus seeds, to offer to the Buddha. They also invite people from the surrounding mountains to take the holy communion and give food to the young and old in the houses to share, as a sign of respect for the Buddha. Laba Festival Customs: Pickling Laba Garlic <br /> Laba garlic is pickled garlic on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. It is a custom in the north, especially in North China. The ingredients are vinegar and garlic cloves. Laba Festival Customs: Eating Ice <br /> The day before Laba Festival, people usually scoop water into ice using a steel basin, and on Laba Festival, they take the ice out of the basin and break it into pieces. It is said that the ice on this day is magical and eating it will prevent stomachache for the next year. Laba Festival customs: Laba tofu "Laba Tofu" is a folk specialty of Qianxian County, Anhui Province. On Laba, the eve of the Spring Festival, which is around the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, every household in Qianxian County will dry tofu. People call this naturally dried tofu "Laba Tofu". What is the origin of Laba Festival?The custom of eating Laba porridge on Laba Festival originated in India and is related to Sakyamuni, the founder of ancient Indian Buddhism. Legend has it that Sakyamuni practiced asceticism for six years before attaining enlightenment. During these six years, he only ate one grain of hemp and one grain of rice every day. One day, while bathing in the river, he ate the gruel given by the shepherdess Sujata, and attained enlightenment under the Bodhi tree.Chyle is milk porridge, which is said to be the predecessor of Laba porridge. Later, in order to commemorate Sakyamuni and thank the shepherdess, Sakyamuni's disciples would go to the streets to beg for alms with bowls in their hands on the Laba Day every year. They would cook the rice, dates, etc. they begged into porridge and distribute it to the hungry people. |
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