What is the lunar calendar for Laba Festival in 2018? What are the legends about Laba Festival?
The lunar calendar is a part of Chinese traditional culture and guides people’s daily lives. So what is the lunar calendar for Laba Festival in 2018? Most traditional festivals are concentrated in the twelfth lunar month, when people celebrate the harvest of the past year in the cold winter and look forward to good luck in the coming year. 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.What is the lunar calendar for Laba Festival in 2018?Laba Festival: the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month of the year 2017. [Suitable]: accepting marriage proposals, marrying, recruiting sons-in-law, traveling, migrating, taking up a post, opening a market, establishing a contract, seeking wealth, governing the way, offering sacrifices, praying, and breaking ground. [Avoid]: separation, planting, digging canals, draining water, building, building houses, building bridges, building embankments, raising livestock, opening warehouses, and purchasing property. Month name: winter. Phenology: migratory birds, fierce and fast. Moon phase: waxing moon. Day fortune: Si Ming, mutual fortune. Julian day: 2458142.5Peng Zu's 100 Taboos: Bing does not repair the stove, Chen does not cry, conflicting: Dragon Day conflict (Gengxu), Dog Yearly Evil: Yearly Evil Southern Star: Dongfang Ji Water Leopard - Good What are the legends about Laba Festival?One theory is that Laba Festival originated from the custom of "beating ghosts with red beans". Legend has it that Zhuanxu, one of the Five Ancient Emperors, had three sons who turned into evil ghosts after their death and specifically came out to scare children. In ancient times, people generally believed in superstitions and were afraid of ghosts and gods. They thought that strokes, illnesses, and poor health among adults and children were all caused by plague ghosts during the Laba Festival. These evil ghosts are not afraid of anything in the sky or on the earth, but they are afraid of red beans, hence the saying "red beans can fight ghosts". Therefore, on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, people cook porridge with red beans and adzuki beans to get rid of epidemics and welcome good luck.One story goes that when Qin Shi Huang built the Great Wall, migrant workers from all over the country came here on orders. They could not go home for many years and had to rely on their families to send them food. Some migrant workers were separated from their homes by thousands of miles and could not receive food, which resulted in many of them starving to death at the Great Wall construction site. On the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month one year, the migrant workers who had no food to eat gathered together a few handfuls of grains, put them in a pot and cooked them into porridge. Each person drank a bowl of it, but in the end they still starved to death at the foot of the Great Wall. In order to mourn the workers who starved to death on the Great Wall construction site, people eat "Laba porridge" on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month every year to commemorate them. It is said that during the Western Jin Dynasty, there was an extremely lazy young man who was idle all the time and lived off his savings. His newlywed wife tried to persuade him many times but to no avail. However, on the eighth day of the twelfth month at the end of the year, there was no food at home. The young man was starving, so he searched the rice jar, flour bag, and jars and pots in the house, washed the remaining grains and edible scraps, put them into the pot, and cooked a bowl of porridge. From then on, he felt bitter remorse and made up his mind to change his ways. The local people use this to educate their children. They cook porridge and drink it every Laba Festival. This not only means that they do not forget the virtues of diligence and thrift of their ancestors on the Laba Festival, but also hope that the gods will bring a good year with enough food and clothing. One theory is that Laba Festival originated from people's remembrance of the loyal minister Yue Fei. In those days, Yue Fei led his troops to fight against the Jin army in Zhuxian Town. It was the coldest time of winter, and Yue's army was poorly fed and clothed, suffering from hunger and cold. The people came one after another to send them porridge. Yue's army had a hearty meal of "Thousands of Family Porridge" sent by the people, and returned with a great victory. That day was the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. After Yue Fei's death, in order to commemorate him, people would cook porridge with grains, beans and fruits on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month every year, and it eventually became a custom. |
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