The origin and legend of Laba Festival When and how did Laba Festival come about?

1. The eighth day of the twelfth lunar month (1February) is called Laba Festival, which was called Laba Festival in ancient times. This is an ancient national traditional festival. Broadly speaking, Laba on the eighth day of December in the summer calendar, the sacrificial furnace on the 24th of December and the Lantern Festival on the 15th of the first month are all part of the traditional Spring Festival, and Laba marks the beginning of the whole activity to bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year.

2. The formation of Laba Festival is the product of two aspects: one is the ancient "La Worship"; The second is the influence of Buddhist culture. This festival is the product of the fusion of China's ancient traditional culture and foreign Buddhist culture.

According to ancient records, "wax" was also called "wax" or "hunting" in ancient times. Wax (wax or hunting) is an ancient ceremony at the end of the year. Jia Ping in the summer, Qing Sacrifice in the Shang Dynasty, Big Wax in the Zhou Dynasty and Wax in the Han Dynasty. In ancient agricultural society, all customs and habits were inevitably associated with agricultural production. Farmers' life, spring ploughing, summer harvest, autumn harvest and winter storage, is busy in the first three seasons, and only the winter storage season is relatively idle.

Therefore, at the end of the harvest, people usually organize themselves to hunt animals in the wild to sacrifice their ancestors and the gods of heaven and earth, so as to get a bumper harvest and good weather in the coming year, and pray to avoid bad luck, drive away bad luck and keep their families safe and auspicious. This is "La Worship", also known as "hunting sacrifice". Therefore, people call the twelfth lunar month, which comes from praying for blessings at the end of the year and rewarding ghosts and gods.