"Children, don’t be greedy, for after Laba it will be New Year" is a nursery rhyme that describes the Laba Festival. It can be seen that Laba Festival has a unique symbolic meaning in China. So, when is Laba Festival in 2018? The twelfth month of the lunar calendar is also known as the twelfth month. There are many customs and habits in the twelfth month. The Fortune Teller website has compiled a special topic on the twelfth month of the lunar calendar for you. Welcome to check it out.When is Laba Festival in 2018?Laba Festival, commonly known as "Laba", is a traditional festival of the Han nationality. There is a folk custom of eating "Laba porridge" and soaking Laba garlic (in some places it is "Laba rice"). In Henan and other places, Laba porridge is also called "Da Jia Fan" and is a festival food custom to commemorate the national hero Yue Fei. Laba is an ancient sacrificial ceremony for celebrating the harvest and thanking ancestors and gods (including door gods, household gods, house gods, kitchen gods, and well gods). The Laba 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 Laba Festival was called the La Day. In the pre-Qin period, Lari was the third Xu day after the winter solstice. Laba Festival is a festival for worshiping ancestors and gods and praying for a good harvest and good luck. Later, Buddhism was introduced to China in the Eastern Han Dynasty. In order to expand its influence in the local area, it gradually attached itself to traditional culture and designated Laba Festival as the day of Buddha's enlightenment.When is Laba Festival?The Laba Festival in 2018 is on January 24, 2018, the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month of 2017, which is Wednesday.Laba Festival is commonly known as "Laba" and it falls on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month every year. In ancient times, people had the tradition of worshiping their ancestors and gods and praying for a good harvest on this day. In some areas, there is also the custom of drinking Laba porridge. In addition, this day is the day of enlightenment of Buddha Shakyamuni, a grand Buddhist festival. For thousands of years, Laba Festival and its customs have been passed down among the Chinese people as a festival. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, worshiping gods and Buddhas replaced ancestor worship, celebrating the harvest and warding off epidemics and disasters, and became the main theme of Laba Festival. The main customs at that time were to cook, give away and taste Laba porridge, and to celebrate the harvest. At the same time, many families have started the Spring Festival, busying themselves with slaughtering the New Year pig, making tofu, making wind fish bacon, and purchasing New Year goods. The atmosphere of the "New Year" gradually becomes stronger. |
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