What day in the lunar calendar does Laba Festival refer to?

Laba Festival is the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month.

Laba Festival, that is, the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month (the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month), is also called "Magic Weapon Festival", "Buddhist Enlightenment Festival" and "Enlightenment Meeting". The main custom is to drink Laba porridge, and Laba Festival is one of the grand festivals in Buddhism.

Since Buddhism was introduced to China, temples have cooked porridge with fragrant valleys and fruits and distributed it to believers and faithful men and women. On the day of Laba, various monasteries held a ceremony meeting, which resembled the story of a shepherd boy offering chyle before becoming a monk. He made porridge for the Buddha with fragrant grains and fruits, and named it Laba porridge.

According to legend, after drinking this porridge, you can get the blessing of Buddha. Therefore, Laba porridge is also called "Fushou porridge", "Fude porridge" and "Buddha porridge". "Laba" was originally a Buddhist festival. After several generations of evolution, it gradually became a household name.