Is Laba Festival a holiday? What is the holiday arrangement for 20 18 Laba Festival?

Laba Festival on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month has a long history in China. When Laba Festival comes, people have traditional customs such as drinking Laba porridge and pickling Laba garlic. Then today's calendar will introduce you whether Laba Festival is a holiday or not, and the holiday arrangement for Laba Festival in 20 18.

Q: Is there a holiday on 20 18 Laba Festival? A: The Laba Festival in 2018 falls on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month in 2019013 of the Gregorian calendar. Laba Festival is not a legal holiday in China, so there is no holiday. However, because Laba Festival falls on the weekend of 20 18, people can still enjoy the rest day.

The original intention of Laba Festival is to offer sacrifices to ancestors and gods, pray for good harvest, good luck, ward off evil spirits and drive away epidemics. In China, there is a custom of drinking Laba porridge on Laba Festival. According to the legend of the Han Dynasty, this day is the day when Sakyamuni became a monk and founded Buddhism under the Buddha Bodhi. It is also called "Magic Weapon Festival" and is one of the grand festivals for Buddhists. It is also mentioned in the eight secret words of Taoism that this day is the "Wang Houla" among the five Labradors, and it is necessary to fast and sacrifice ancestors.

In ancient China, "La" was an important sacrificial activity. There is a saying in the Book of Rites: "Those who wax, accept it, hand it over to the new, so it is a big sacrifice." It means: the twelfth lunar month is the day to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, and hold a grand celebration to repay the ancestors' harvest for one year; Because La Worship is held in December (ugly month), the December of the lunar calendar at the turn of the old and the new in late winter and early spring is called "twelfth month".

After Buddhism was introduced to China in the 1 century, China Buddhism adopted this position to commemorate the day when Sakyamuni became a Taoist. On this day, all monasteries have to recite scriptures and cook porridge to worship Buddha, which is Laba porridge. In the Qing Dynasty, the Laba Festival in Yonghe Palace was extremely grand. There is an ancient bronze cauldron with a diameter of 2 meters and a depth of 1.5 meters in the Lama Temple, weighing about 4 tons, which is specially used for cooking Laba porridge. At the beginning of December of the lunar calendar, the head of the palace, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, sent a clerk to transport porridge and dry wood to the Lama Temple.

There are many kinds of porridge materials, including fine cream, diced mutton, whole grains and various dried fruits. On the fifth night of the fifth day, the sixth emperor sent ministers to lead officials and civilians with more than three kinds of products to the temple to supervise the weighing of grain and the transportation of firewood.

In the early morning of the seventh day, the porridge supervisor sent by the emperor ordered the fire to be lit, and all the porridge was cooked until the early morning of the eighth day. At this time, the porridge minister sent by the emperor led the officials to provide porridge in front of the Buddha statue. Palace lanterns are shining, cigarettes are curling, drums and music are ringing, and lamas enter the temple to chant Buddhist scriptures. Then, the porridge was presented to the imperial court, sealed in cans, and sent to Chengde Palace and other parts of the country by fast horses. The ceremony didn't end until the porridge was finished after dawn.

According to historical records, each pot of porridge is made of millet 12 stone, 50 kg of dried grains and 5000 kg of dry wood, a total of 6 pots. The first jar is dedicated to Buddha statues, the second jar to emperors and palaces, the third jar to princes, nobles and lamas, the fourth jar to ministers of civil and military affairs and provincial officials, the fifth jar to lamas in Lama Temple, and the sixth jar as charitable donations.

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