What festival is on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month? What does it do?
The eighth day of the twelfth lunar month is what we call Laba Festival. So what is this Laba Festival? What do you all do on this day? Let’s find out together with the editor. 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.What festival is on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month?The eighth day of the twelfth lunar month every year is commonly known as Laba Festival (also called Laba); Laba Festival has a very long history in my country. People drink and make Laba porridge on this day, which is the most traditional and most sophisticated custom for people all over the country.What does everyone do on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month?1. Eat Laba porridge . There is a custom of eating Laba porridge on the Laba day, 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. 2. Making Laba tofu is a folk custom in Qianxian County, Anhui Province. It is a local specialty. Homemade tofu can be dried and eaten later. The specific production process is as follows: Use high-quality soybeans to make tofu, spread the tofu with salt water, and slowly bake it under the gentle sun. "Laba tofu" is usually hung with straw ropes in a ventilated place to dry, and picked when eaten. It can generally be kept for three months without deteriorating or changing taste. 3. In addition to sweet or salty Laba porridge , Laba garlic and Laba tofu, Shaanxi Laba noodles are of course indispensable. Before the sun comes out on the morning of the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month every year, every household in Shaanxi eats a bowl of steaming hot and fragrant Laba noodles. 4. Laba Festival is originally a day for sacrifice, and some places still retain this custom. The objects of worship include: Shennong, the god of thrift, Houji, the god of agriculture, the god of field officials, the gods of post and field, the people who open roads and draw boundaries, the cat and tiger gods, the gods of the neighborhood, the gods of water, the gods of insects, etc. The element of worshiping Buddha was later incorporated into the Tang and Song dynasties, and Buddhists had the custom of worshiping Buddha on this day. Some areas are very grand. |
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