What day does Laba Festival refer to?

Laba Festival is a traditional religious and agricultural festival of Han nationality in China. On the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, this day is called "the twelfth lunar month". After Buddhism was introduced into China in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, it coincided with a Buddhist festival, also known as the "Buddhist Festival". As for the origin of La Ri, it originated from a winter festival of ancient Han ancestors. Due to the cold weather in winter and slack farming, people go hunting in the mountains in preparation for the end of the year when the old and the new turn, using prey as a "sacrifice" to worship ancestors and the gods of heaven and earth and pray for disaster relief. In ancient Chinese, hunting and wax are the same word. Therefore, this festival is called "La Worship", and the December of the lunar calendar is also called "twelfth month". Historically, every year in the twelfth lunar month, emperors prayed to heaven, slaughtered a large number of animals and steamed wine, and held a "wax" festival to bless the gods and ancestors and reap a bumper harvest in the coming year. "

Laba is an ancient ritual to celebrate the harvest and thank ancestors and gods (including door gods, household gods, house gods, kitchen gods and well gods). Laba in Xia Dynasty was called Jiaping, Qing Sacrifice in Shang Dynasty and Da Wax in Zhou Dynasty. Because it is held in December, it is called the twelfth lunar month, and La Worship is called the twelfth lunar month. The twelfth lunar month in the pre-Qin period is the third day to the day after beginning of winter. Laba Festival is a festival to worship ancestors and gods and pray for good harvest and good luck. Later, Buddhism was introduced in the Eastern Han Dynasty. In order to expand its local influence, traditional culture attached to Laba Festival as the Buddha's enlightenment day.