When is Laba Festival?

Laba Festival in 2023 is 01.18 in 2024.

Laba Festival, that is, the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, is also called "Magic Weapon Festival" and "Enlightenment Meeting". Originally a Buddhist festival to commemorate the enlightenment of Sakyamuni Buddha, it gradually became a folk 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 earliest written record of Laba porridge was in the Song Dynasty. Meng Lianglu, written by Wu in the Southern Song Dynasty, reads: "On the eighth day of this month, the temple name is Laba. Dasha and other temples have five kinds of porridge called Laba porridge. China has been drinking Laba porridge for more than 1000 years. In northern China, there is a saying that "children should not be greedy, it is the year after Laba", which means the prelude to the Chinese New Year.

Related records

The ancient customs related to "pulling" are recorded in the literature. At the end of the year, the meaning of "wax" has three meanings. One is "wax is also connected", which means the alternation of the old and the new (recorded in the Book of Rites of Sui Shu). Secondly, the saying that "wax hunters hunt together" means that animals can be obtained to sacrifice ancestors and gods when hunting in the wild. "wax" comes from "meat", which means "winter sacrifice" and has meat. In ancient times, there was a custom in La Worship in some areas of China. La Worship targeted his ancestors and five family gods (including door gods, household gods, house gods, kitchen gods and well gods).

Ying Shao's "Custom Pass" said: "The Book of Rites": A wax hunter killed animals in order to sacrifice his ancestors. Or: "If you pull out the wax, you will receive it, and the new one will be handed over, so you will be rewarded with a big sacrifice." . Its origin is very early. "Book of Rites" says: "Yi family is wax, and wax is also. In December, gather everything and ask for it. "

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