Customs and Implication of Traditional Laba Festival —— Introduction of Traditional Laba Festival

In the twelfth lunar month, people pay attention to taboos, so "garlic" with the same pronunciation as "calculation" is used to replace the accounting "calculation". So Laba garlic is delicious, but it is not sold in the market. Every household makes their own laba garlic, and also calculates their own accounts. Look at the expenditure of this year, how much is scraped, and how much it costs to buy new year's goods.

Step 2 drink laba porridge

After laba porridge is cooked, you should sacrifice to God and ancestors first. After that, give it to relatives and friends, and be sure to send it out before noon. Finally, the whole family eats together. It is a good sign that the leftover Laba porridge will be preserved after eating for a few days, which means "more than one year".

Step 3 eat ice

On the day before Laba Festival, people usually scoop water in steel pots and freeze it. When Laba Festival comes, they will remove the ice and break it. It is said that the ice on this day is magical, and it won't hurt your stomach for a year after eating it.

Step 4 eat laba noodles

Laba noodles are developed on the basis of Laba porridge. In the past, in Dali, Lintong, Fengxiang and other places in Shaanxi Province, people cooked noodles to worship God on Laba Festival, so it was called "Laba Noodles". Every year before the sun comes out on the morning of the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, every household in Shaanxi has to eat a bowl of steaming and delicious Laba noodles.

Step 5 make laba tofu

The folk custom in Ganxian County, Anhui Province is a local specialty, and homemade tofu can be dried before eating.

Step 6 sacrifice

Laba was originally a day of sacrifice, and some places still retain this custom. The objects of sacrifice are: Shennong, Shensi, Hou Ji, Nong Shen, Tianguan, Postal Desk God, Taoist Painting God, Cat and Tiger God, Workshop God, Water God, Insect God and so on.

7. Moral: Laba Festival, commonly known as "Laba", that is, the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, the ancients had a tradition of offering sacrifices to ancestors and praying for a bumper harvest. In some areas, there is a custom of drinking Laba porridge. At the end of the year, "La" has three meanings: one is "La, then it is also", which means the alternation of old and new (recorded in the Book of Rites of Sui Shu); The second is "wax hunters hunt together", which means that hunting in the wild can make animals sacrifice their ancestors and gods. "wax" comes from "meat", which means meat for "winter sacrifice"; Thirdly, it is said that "those who wax the wax will drive away the epidemic and welcome the spring", and Laba Festival is also called "Buddhist Daoism Festival" and "Daoism Society". In fact, it can be said that the eighth day of December is the origin of Laba Festival.