4hw.com.cn: the annual Laba Festival is coming. There has always been the custom of Laba porridge in the north. It sounds like a festival for northerners. Do southerners celebrate Laba Festival? Let's have a look.
Laba Festival is also celebrated in some places in the south, but not in some places.
For example, Sichuan has Laba Festival and eats Laba porridge made of soybeans, peanuts, diced meat, white radish and carrots. Making glutinous rice cake on Laba Festival in Guangxi; Zhejiang Laba Festival uses walnut kernel, pine nut kernel, lotus seed, red jujube, longan meat and litchi meat to cook Laba porridge.
In addition to eating Laba porridge, Changsha, Hunan and other places also make Laba beans, which has become one of the home dishes. On this day, the country often makes Laba rice with glutinous rice, bacon, red dates and walnuts. Laba beans are also the best made on this day.
Cantonese are just Laba Festival. The ancient Lingnan water town has not been developed. The native people do not live mainly by farming. They all make a living by fishing shrimp and fish on the water. However, the beans and cereals needed to cook Laba porridge are not cultivated at all, so there will be no custom of eating these things.
Laba Festival, commonly known as' Laba ', is the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. The ancients had the tradition of sacrificing ancestors and gods and praying for a good harvest. In some areas, there was the custom of drinking Laba porridge. It is said that this day is also the day when the Buddha Sakyamuni became a Taoist. It is called 'magic weapon Festival', which is one of the grand festivals of Buddhism.
The month at the end of the year is called "La", which has three meanings: first, it says "La, then", which means the alternation of the old and the new (recorded in the book of Sui & middot; etiquette annals); Second, "those who eat wax hunt together", which means that field hunting obtains birds and animals to offer sacrifices to ancestors and gods. When "wax" comes from "meat", it means "Winter Sacrifice" with meat; The third said, 'wax, catch the epidemic and greet the spring'. Laba Festival is also called "Buddha becoming Tao Festival", also known as "becoming Tao society". In fact, it can be said that the eighth day of December is the origin of Laba day.