Is Laba Festival and Great Cold the same day? Why?

Laba Festival and Great Cold are not the same day. Laba Festival, that is, the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, is also called "Magic Weapon Festival", "Buddhist Enlightenment Festival" and "Enlightenment Meeting". Originally a Buddhist festival to commemorate the enlightenment of Sakyamuni Buddha, it gradually became a folk festival.

The Great Cold is the last of the 24 solar terms. Fighting refers to ugliness; The longitude of the sun is 300; Gregorian calendar 65438+1October 20th -2 1. Great cold, like slight cold, is also a solar term indicating the cold weather. Great cold is the coldest solar term in a year.

According to China's long-term meteorological records, there is no slight cold in the great cold solar terms in the northern region; But for most parts of the south, April and September are the coldest, so the big cold solar terms are colder than the small ones.

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Stories and legends of Laba Festival

Laba Festival is the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. Legend has it that it originated in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty. It is said that Zhu Yuanzhang was hungry and cold when he was in trouble and suffering in prison. Zhu Yuanzhang actually dug up seven or eight kinds of miscellaneous grains such as red beans, rice and red dates from the mouse hole in the prison.

Zhu Yuanzhang cooked these things into porridge. Because it is the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, Zhu Yuanzhang euphemistically called this pot of miscellaneous grains porridge Laba porridge. I enjoyed a delicious meal. Later, Zhu Yuanzhang pacified the world and became the emperor facing south. In order to commemorate that special day in prison, he designated it as Laba Festival and officially named the miscellaneous grains porridge he ate that day Laba porridge.