What is Laba? Nine out of nine

From the solar terms of winter solstice every year, the winter solstice on 20 18 is 2012.22, and the lunar Laba Festival from winter solstice to 20 18 is exactly 22 days, so the Laba Festival on 20 18 is three or nine days.

Laba Festival, commonly known as Laba, refers to the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month.

Laba Festival is a festival to worship ancestors and gods and pray for good harvest and good luck. According to legend, this day is the day when Sakyamuni, the founder of Buddhism, became a monk and founded Buddhism under the bodhi of Buddha, that is, the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, so it is also called "Buddhist and Taoist Festival".

In China, Laba Festival has the custom of drinking Laba porridge and soaking Laba garlic. In Henan and other places, Laba porridge is also called "everyone's meal".

It is a holiday food custom to commemorate the national hero Yue Fei.

In order to commemorate this special day, every day, Buddhist disciples cooked porridge according to the proportion of shepherdess and distributed it to people. Finally, it expanded from Buddhist charity to folk customs.