What month is Laba Festival?

Laba Festival is1February 8th. Also known as magic weapon festival, Buddhist enlightenment festival, enlightenment meeting, etc. According to folklore experts, the word Laba originated in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, when it was called Laba, which was originally a Buddhist festival to commemorate Sakyamuni's enlightenment.

Laba porridge, also known as Qibao Wuwei porridge, Buddha porridge and everyone's rice, is a kind of porridge made of various ingredients.

Historical origin

Laba Festival, the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, is one of the grand festivals of Buddhism. Buddhism records that Sakyamuni practiced asceticism for many years before becoming a monk, so he found that asceticism was not the way out and decided to give up asceticism.

At this time, I met a shepherdess who offered chyle, recovered her strength after eating, sat under a bodhi tree, and went home on December 8. To commemorate this event, Buddhists held a Buddhist ceremony on this day and cooked porridge for the Buddha with rice and fruit.

In the Southern Song Dynasty, Wu dreamed of Liang Luzai. On the eighth day of this month, temples are called Laba porridge, and Dasha and other temples all have five-flavor porridge, which is 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.