When is Laba Festival in 2018? What is the origin of Laba Festival?

When is Laba Festival in 2018? What is the origin of Laba Festival?
Introduction: Our country is a traditional country with many traditional festivals, Laba Festival is one of them. So when is Laba Festival in 2018? What is the origin of Laba Festival? Most traditional festivals are concentrated in the twelfth month of the lunar calendar. What festivals are there in the twelfth month of the lunar calendar? The Fortune Teller website’s special feature on the twelfth month of the lunar calendar will help you learn more.

When is Laba Festival in 2018?

January 24, 2018, the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, is Wednesday, Laba Festival, commonly known as "Laba", which refers to the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month (December). Laba Festival is a festival for worshiping ancestors and gods and praying for a good harvest and good fortune. It is also called "Buddha's Enlightenment Day" because it is said that this day is the day when the founder of Buddhism, Sakyamuni, attained enlightenment under the Bodhi tree and founded Buddhism, which is the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. In China, there is a custom of drinking Laba porridge and soaking Laba garlic on Laba Festival. In Henan and other places, Laba porridge is also called "Da Jia Fan". It is a festival food custom to commemorate the national hero Yue Fei.

What is the origin of Laba Festival?

"La" has three meanings: one is "La means to connect", which implies the alternation of the old and the new (recorded in "Book of Sui·Records of Rites"); the second is "La means hunting", which refers to hunting to obtain animals for offering sacrifices to ancestors and gods, and "La" is written on the side of "meat", which means using meat for "winter sacrifice"; the third is "La means to drive away epidemics and welcome spring." Laba Festival comes from the La Day, and is the most important festival in the twelfth lunar month. It falls on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, which was called "La Day" in ancient times and is commonly known as "Laba Festival".
Laba Festival is also known as Laba Festival, Laba Festival and Wanghou La. It was originally a sacrificial ceremony in ancient times to celebrate the harvest and thank ancestors and gods (including door gods, household gods, house gods, kitchen gods, and well gods). In addition to the activities of worshiping ancestors and gods, the custom of beating drums to drive away epidemics in the twelfth lunar month during witchcraft activities still remains in Xinhua, Hunan and other areas.
Later it evolved into a religious festival to commemorate the Buddha Shakyamuni's enlightenment. The La Festival was called "Jiaping" in the Xia Dynasty, "Qingsi" in the Shang Dynasty and "Dala" in the Zhou Dynasty. Because it was held in December, the month was called Layue and the day of the La Festival was called Lari. In the Pre-Qin Dynasty, Lari was on the third Xu day after the winter solstice. It was not until the Northern and Southern Dynasties that it was fixed on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. "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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