What are the legends and stories of Laba Festival?

1, Laba Festival is the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month (December), which originated in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty. According to legend, Zhu Yuanzhang, who was not an emperor at that time, was in trouble and suffered a lot in prison. At that time, Zhu Yuanzhang, who was hungry and cold, had no choice but to dig out some miscellaneous grains such as red beans, rice and red dates from the rat hole in the prison. Zhu Yuanzhang put these things in water and boiled them into a big bowl of "five-grain porridge", which happened to be the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. Zhu Yuanzhang called it "Laba porridge". Later, Zhu Yuanzhang pacified the world and became emperor. In order to commemorate the hard and special days in prison, he designated that day as Laba Festival, and officially named the "five-grain porridge" he ate that day as Laba porridge.

On the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, China has the custom of eating Laba porridge. It is said that Laba porridge comes from India. Sakyamuni, the founder of Buddhism, was originally the son of Sudoku king in Kapilowei (present-day Nepal) in northern India. He saw that all beings were tortured by birth, illness and death, dissatisfied with the theocratic rule of Brahmins at that time, and gave up the throne and became a monk. After six years of asceticism, he became a Buddha under the bodhi tree on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. In the past six years, I have only eaten one hemp and one meter a day. Later generations did not forget his sufferings and ate porridge as a souvenir on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month every year. "Laba" became "Buddha's Day".