Is the Great Cold Laba a Festival?

Great cold is not Laba Festival. The time of severe cold is 65438+1October 20th -2 1 in the Gregorian calendar every year. Laba Festival is the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month every year. The Great Cold and Laba Festival are approaching, sometimes on the same day. For example, the Great Cold in 2020 and Laba Festival are the same day.

Both the Great Cold and Laba Festival have the custom of drinking Laba porridge. Laba porridge is porridge made of various ingredients. Common ingredients are rice, millet, corn, coix seed, red dates, lotus seeds, peanuts, longan and various beans.

In addition to Laba porridge, traditional foods often eaten in cold seasons include fried spring rolls, rice cakes, Ciba, glutinous rice, eight-treasure rice and so on.