The Origin and Customs of Laba Festival (Briefly on the Origin and Customs of Laba Festival)
The origin and custom of Laba Festival
origin
Laba Festival is usually on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, also known as "Magic Weapon Festival", "Buddhist Enlightenment Festival" and "Enlightenment Meeting". Buddhist festivals, mainly to commemorate the enlightenment of Sakyamuni Buddha, have gradually become folk festivals.
custom
Laba porridge
Laba Festival has the custom of eating Laba porridge. Laba porridge, also called Qibao Wuwei porridge, is a kind of porridge made of various ingredients. Drinking Laba porridge on Laba Festival is related to the story of Buddha becoming a Buddha.
offer sacrifices to ancestors
Laba itself is a festival of sacrifice, and the objects of sacrifice are: Shennong, Shensi, Hou Ji, Nong Shen, Tianguan, Postal God, Daoge Demarcation God, Cat and Tiger God, Garden God, Water Insect God and so on. Later, in the Tang and Song Dynasties, the elements of offering sacrifices to the Buddha were incorporated, and Buddhism used to offer sacrifices to the Buddha on this day.
Eat ice
On the day before Laba, people usually use steel pots to scoop water for freezing. When the Laba Festival comes, they will take the ice off and break it, and then eat it, indicating that they will not have a stomachache in the coming year.
202 1 laba festival time
202 1 065438+ Wednesday, October 20th.
Laba Festival is a traditional festival in China. Generally, on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, Laba Festival in northern China, people are busy peeling garlic to make vinegar, soaking Laba garlic and eating Laba porridge, which means it is a year after Laba, and it is an important festival. The Laba section of 202 1 is 202 1.
What traditional food do you eat on Laba Festival?
There are mainly the following kinds of food.
Laba porridge
Laba porridge is a traditional diet custom of Laba Festival. Laba porridge is drunk all over the country on Laba Festival every year. Different regions have different tastes and different ingredients, but the ingredients for making Laba porridge are mostly beans, grains and dried fruits. The common ingredients of Laba porridge are: rice, millet, glutinous rice, sorghum rice, purple rice, barley and other cereals; Beans, such as soybeans, red beans, mung beans, kidney beans and cowpeas; Red dates, peanuts, lotus seeds, medlar, chestnuts, walnuts, almonds, longan, raisins, ginkgo and other dried fruits.
Laba garlic [garlic pickled with Laba vinegar]
Laba garlic is mainly popular in northern China, especially in North China. Its main ingredients are garlic and vinegar. After pickling, garlic will turn from white to emerald green. The specific method is to peel garlic; Put it in a sealed jar; Pour in white vinegar; Put it in the shade; After Laba garlic is cool; Take it out to eat.
Chilaba noodles
Laba noodles is a dietary custom in Shaanxi. In areas where there is a custom of laba noodles, they don't drink porridge, but eat a bowl of hot laba noodles first and prepare all kinds of bean food. Noodles are made into leek leaves; Soak the beans in advance; Laba, soup with beans, beans cooked; Add noodles and cook over medium heat; On the other side, stir-fry chopped green onion with hot oil; When the noodles are cooked, pour the chopped green onion oil into the pot.
Are Laba Festival and Great Cold festivals?
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Laba Festival is the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month every year, also known as "Magic Weapon Festival", "Buddhist Enlightenment Festival" and "Enlightenment Meeting", and it is a festival to commemorate the enlightenment of Sakyamuni Buddha. The Great Cold belongs to a solar term and is the last of the 24 solar terms. Great cold, like slight cold, is a solar term indicating the cold weather. Great cold refers to extremely cold weather, so Laba Festival and Great Cold are not the same festival.