What are the customs of small cold

Small cold custom to drink congee. Small cold festival is in the lunar month (December), the first eight days of Lunar New Year is also known as "Laha". Laha more in the small cold and cold between, after the Laha, it means that the New Year is about to pass. Many places in China popular Laha drink "Laha porridge" custom, which originated in India's Buddhist legend. Siddhartha Gautama, the founder of Buddhism, was the son of King Jinyan of Kabiravi in the northern part of India, and when he saw that all beings suffered from the pain of birth, old age, sickness and death, he gave up his throne and became a monk. After six years of asceticism, he attained enlightenment under the Bodhi tree on the eighth day of the first month of the lunar calendar. During the six years of asceticism, Sakyamuni had no time to care about his personal clothing and food, and ate only some hemp and wheat every day to satisfy his hunger. At the time of his attainment of Buddhahood, he was dressed in rags, thin and bony, and his appearance was like a dead tree. The descendants did not forget his suffering, so they ate congee on the eighth day of the lunar month every year to commemorate him. This custom has since spread to Chinese folklore and continues to this day.

Sacrificing ancestors and gods. Lunar New Year's Day has also become the end of the year sacrificial festival, the ancients have sacrificed to the ancestors, the gods, praying for a good harvest and auspicious tradition. The Book of Rites - Suburban Special Adoption records: "The Yijian clan started to make wax. Wax is also, Suo also, the year of December, and gathered all things and Suo entertained also." In the Records of the Grand Historian (史记-补三皇本纪), it is written, "The Shennong clan of the Yandi Emperor started to make wax offerings to repay heaven and earth for their work in the fields." Wax festival festival not only expresses the reverence and remembrance of ancestors, but also sacrificed hundreds of gods, to thank them for the agricultural work done during the year.