When is the Great Cold Laba Festival? Is the Great Cold and Laba Festival the same day in 2023?

Lead: There are corresponding traditional festivals every month, so is the Great Cold and Laba Festival in 2023 the same day? What's the date of the Great Cold and Laba Festival? Let's take a look at Bian Xiao.

Is the Great Cold and Laba Festival the same day in 2023?

Not the same day, but the same month.

Great cold time: the great cold in 2023 was on the day of 065438+20231October 20th (Year of the Tiger).

Time of Laba Festival: Laba Festival falls on the day of 065438+ 10/0 in 2023 (Year of the Tiger).

What's the date of the Great Cold and Laba Festival?

Cold time:

Every year when the sun reaches 300 in Gregorian calendar (65438+1October 20th -2 1), it is called "Great Cold". This festival is the coldest period of the year during March 9 and April 9, when cold waves frequently go south.

There is a folk saying that "a slight cold is the most important thing, and it is cold without wind." Great cold refers to extremely cold weather. Although the winter solstice solar terms are the lowest in the northern hemisphere, the coldest time in a year is the slight cold and severe cold solar terms after the winter solstice solar terms, especially the severe cold solar terms; This is because after the winter solstice, the direct point of sunlight will gradually move northward, but in the following time, the direct point of sunlight will always be in the southern hemisphere, and the heat in the northern hemisphere will always be lost, and the heat absorbed during the day is still less than the heat released at night. Therefore, after the winter solstice, the temperature in the northern hemisphere will continue to decrease, with the lowest temperature during the severe cold solar term, which is the coldest solar term in a year. Because China has a vast territory and a large span between the north and the south, the climate between the north and the south is quite different. According to China's long-term meteorological records, there is no slight cold in the great cold solar terms in the northern region; But for most parts of the south, April and September are the coldest, so the big cold solar terms are colder than the small ones. Slight cold and severe cold are the periods with the least rainfall in a year. During the annual cold solar term, the rainfall in South China is only 5 to 10 mm. ..

Laba Festival time:

Laba Festival is the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, also known as "Magic Weapon Festival", "Buddhist Enlightenment Festival" and "Enlightenment Meeting". Originally a Buddhist festival to commemorate the enlightenment of Sakyamuni Buddha, it gradually became a folk festival.

Laba Festival, the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, is the main custom of "drinking Laba porridge". Laba Festival is one of the grand festivals in Buddhism. Buddhism records that Sakyamuni practiced asceticism for many years before becoming a monk, and found that asceticism was not the way out, so he decided to give up asceticism. At this time, I met a herder who offered chyle. After eating, I recovered my strength and sat down under the bodhi tree to meditate.1February 8, I went home as a Taoist. To commemorate this event, Buddhists held Buddhist ceremonies on this day, offering rice and fruit to cook porridge for the Buddha. Wu's Dream in the Southern Song Dynasty says: "On the eighth day of this month, the temple name is Laba. Dasha and other temples have five-flavored porridge called Laba porridge. " Since Buddhism was introduced to China, temples have cooked porridge with fragrant valleys and fruits and distributed it to believers and loyal men and women. On the day of Laba, Buddhist ceremonies were held in various monasteries, just like the story of a shepherdess offering chyle before becoming a monk. She cooked porridge with torreya grandis and fruits for the Buddha and named it Laba porridge. Legend has it that drinking this porridge can get the blessing of the Buddha. So 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.

What to eat with a cold?

1, babao rice

There is a folk saying that glutinous rice is eaten in the cold season, because glutinous rice can nourish the healthy qi of the human body, and after eating it, it will cause fever all over the body and play a role in keeping out the cold and nourishing the stomach. The food made of glutinous rice is the most typical one. Steamed glutinous rice, mixed with sugar, lard and osmanthus fragrans, poured into a container filled with fruit materials such as red dates, coix seed, lotus seeds and longan pulp, steamed and poured with sugar marinade. It tastes sweet and is a good holiday and hospitality.

There are different opinions about the origin of eight-treasure rice. One is the celebration food after Zhou Wang's attack. The so-called "eight treasures" refer to the eight wise men who assisted Zhou Wang. However, the more reliable explanation is that the eight-treasure rice originated in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces and spread to the north only after the Jiangnan master went to Beijing to be a chef. Today, Ningbo, Shengzhou, Jiaxing and other places still retain the custom of eating eight-treasure rice in the New Year.

2, rice cakes

The custom of eating "Lianggao" has a long history in Beijing. "Cold-dispelling cake" is a kind of rice cake, not only because its glutinous rice has a higher sugar content than rice, which makes the whole body feel warm after eating, and it has the effects of warming up the cold, moistening the lungs and strengthening the spleen and stomach, but also because people choose to eat rice cake on the day of "severe cold", which also means "high year", which means good luck and good luck, peace every year and promotion step by step.

Therefore, in the custom of old Beijing, on the cold day, the whole family eats rice cakes separately, which not only has auspicious taste, but also can dispel the chill on the body, so it is called "eliminating cold cakes".

3. Chicken soup

In the cold winter, Nanjing people's daily diet is more stew and soup. The severe cold has reached the ninth month of the lunar calendar, and the traditional eating custom of "one chicken" is still respected by many citizens' families. Nanjing people choose old hens, or stew them alone, or add ginseng, medlar, black fungus and so on. Drinking chicken soup in cold winter is really a pleasure.

What to eat on Laba Festival?

Laba porridge, also known as "seven treasures and five flavors porridge", "Buddha porridge" and "everyone's meal", is a kind of porridge made of various ingredients. The origin of the custom of drinking Laba porridge on Laba Festival is related to the story of Buddha becoming a Buddha. Therefore, Li Fu, a scholar in Suzhou in the Qing Dynasty, once wrote a poem: "The porridge on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month came from the Vatican, and the seven treasures were beautiful and fragrant." The custom of drinking Laba porridge on Laba Festival comes from Buddhism. The eighth day of December is the day when Buddha Sakyamuni became a Buddha. In order not to forget the suffering of the Buddha before he became a Buddha, but also to commemorate the enlightenment of the Buddha on the eighth day of December, ancient Indians ate mixed porridge as a souvenir. Since Buddhism was introduced to China from ancient India, temples have cooked porridge with fragrant valleys and fruits for their disciples and believers. On this day, various monasteries held a ritual meeting, imitating the story of the Buddha becoming a monk and offering chyme to a herder in front of the Taoist road, and cooking porridge for the Buddha with torreya grandis and fruit, called Laba porridge. In some monasteries, monks hold bowls and give alms along the street before the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. The collected rice, chestnuts, dates and nuts are boiled into Laba porridge and distributed to the poor. Everyone thinks that eating it can be blessed by the Buddha, so the poor call it "Buddha porridge". Generally speaking, the Buddha porridge in the temple is delicious and abundant, which can meet the needs of good men and women who come to the temple to attend the memorial ceremony. Some believers come specifically for "porridge" and think that Laba porridge is auspicious for the Buddha, not only for their own consumption, but also for their families. Year after year, the tradition of boiling Laba porridge in monasteries has spread widely among the people, and gradually formed the custom of drinking Laba porridge on Laba Festival in northern China.