When is Laba Festival in 2023?
Laba Festival, commonly known as Laba, is the lunar calendar? The eighth day of the twelfth lunar month? The ancients had a tradition of offering sacrifices to ancestors and gods and praying for a bumper harvest. In some areas, there is a custom of drinking Laba porridge. According to legend, this day is also the day when Sakyamuni became a Taoist. It is called Magic Weapon Festival and is one of the grand festivals in Buddhism.
Calling wax at the end of the year has three meanings: first, it means wax, followed by wax, which means the alternation of old and new (recorded in the Book of Rites of Sui Shu); Second, wax hunters hunt together, which means that wild hunters get animals to sacrifice ancestors and gods, and the wax in meat is sacrificed with meat in winter; Third, people who say "wax" will drive away the epidemic and welcome spring. Laba Festival, also known as Buddhist Taoist Festival and Taoist Society, can actually be said to be the origin of Laba Festival on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month.
Laba Festival means "wax", followed by "wax", which means the alternation of old and new (recorded in the Book of Rites of Sui Shu);
Second, wax hunters hunt together, which means that wild hunters get animals to sacrifice ancestors and gods, and the wax in meat is sacrificed with meat in winter;
Third, people who say "wax" will drive away the epidemic and welcome spring.
Laba Festival comes from the twelfth lunar month and is the most important festival in the twelfth lunar month. The date is the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. It was called Laba Festival in ancient times, commonly known as Laba Festival.
Laba Festival originated in ancient times. Laba is a sacrificial ceremony for ancestors and gods (including door gods, household gods, house gods, kitchen gods and well gods) to pray for good harvest and good luck. According to the Book of Rites Special Sacrifice, La Worship was in December, when he got together with everything. In Xia Dynasty, Lari was called Jiaping, in Shang Dynasty, Qingsi, in Zhou Dynasty, Dala. Because it is held in December, it is called the twelfth lunar month, and La Worship is called the twelfth lunar month. The December of the lunar calendar in the pre-Qin period is the third day from winter to the future, and later Buddhism was introduced. In order to expand its local influence, traditional culture was attached to Laba Festival as the Buddha's enlightenment day. Later, with the prevalence of Buddhism, the Buddha's Light Festival merged with the twelve festivals, which was called the Magic Weapon Festival in Buddhism. The Northern and Southern Dynasties began to be fixed on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month.