What is the origin of Laba Festival? How about the day before 202 1 Laba Festival?

The founder of Buddhism, Sakyamuni, whose real name is Siddhartha Gautama, is the son of Su Fan, the king of northern India (now Nepal). When he was young, he saw that all beings were suffering from physical illness and death. In order to seek the true meaning of life and the liberation of life and death, he abandoned his royal life and became a monk. He stayed in the snow-capped mountains for six years, and often every wheat and hemp was eclipsed. Later, I found that asceticism was not the way out, so I gave up asceticism and went down the mountain.

At this time, a shepherdess saw that he was weak and cooked chyle (made of milk and grain) to raise him. Sakyamuni recovered from this and stayed under the bodhi tree for seven days. On the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, he saw the stars at night and became a Buddha.

In order not to forget the six-year suffering of the Buddha before he became a monk, but also to commemorate the Buddha's enlightenment on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, ancient Indians ate mixed porridge on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month as a commemoration. Therefore, Laba Festival was introduced to China from ancient India, and Laba became the Buddha's enlightenment day.

After Buddhism was introduced into China, monasteries were built in various places, and the activity of cooking porridge to worship Buddha became popular, especially on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, when Sakyamuni offered sacrifices to practice, all monasteries held chanting, and imitated the legendary program of offering chyle before Buddhism became a Buddha, cooking porridge to worship Buddha. This is the origin of Laba porridge.

How about the day before 202 1 Laba Festival?

Lunar calendar: 20201February 7.

Gregorian calendar: Tuesday, 202119, Capricorn.

Today's almanac is appropriate.

Litigation on the word "son-in-law of son-in-law of treasure's son-in-law's daughter-in-law's son-in-law"

Start drilling, undressing, burying, looking for heirs, raising animals, cutting clothes and meridians.

Today's old almanac is taboo.

The prison prayed for blessings and sacrifices, and built houses on the upper beams and columns.

Build stoves, drain water, raise livestock, build dams and break ground.

Accept the opening of the market for wealth, emigrate for wealth, and get married.

According to the contents of the old yellow calendar, the day before 202 1 Laba Festival was unlucky because the number of taboo items in the yellow calendar exceeded 10.

On Laba Festival Folk Songs

There is a popular song in southeastern Shanxi called "Year after Laba":

Son, son, don't be greedy. It was a year after Laba. Laba porridge, eat for a few days, pull twenty-three.