January 2, 2020, the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, is the anniversary of the completion of Buddha Sakyamuni, and it is also a traditional Chinese festival - Laba Festival. At this moment, Buddhist temples across the country are offering bowls of hot Laba porridge to people in need. Laba porridge in Buddhist temple has entered thousands of households from the temple Zhaitang, and it has also rushed into the topic of microblog hot search. The # Chengdu Manjusri academy hosted by Chengdu Business Daily will distribute 300000 Laba porridge # for more than 1600 discussions and 17.74 million readings, which will become a beautiful and warm Buddhist scenery on this year's Laba Festival.
In order to welcome the Laba Festival in 2020, Chengdu Manjusri hospital officially launched the Laba porridge offering activity of "drinking Laba porridge and having a happy reunion" in the year of 1911 on December 31, 2019.
Chengdu Wenshu hospital has a tradition of "Laba porridge" for 16 years. This year's event is composed of three theme sections: eating porridge, playing and praying. Through the two ways of "offering porridge in the temple" and "delivering porridge outside the temple", more than 100 porridge eating points are set up in Chengdu to give 300000 copies of "Manjusri made" Laba porridge to believers, tourists and Public Friends free of charge.
Laba Festival is a traditional folk festival in China. In ancient times, people used grains and fruits to cook porridge, offer sacrifices to sages and remember kindness. Chengdu Manjusri academy inherits the excellent traditional Chinese culture and promotes the Buddhist spirit of mercy to the world. Every year, the Laba Festival will offer Chengdu citizens "Manjusri made" Laba porridge. Laba porridge cooked by Chengdu Wenshu hospital is a well-known 'Bashi' delicious in the eyes of Chengdu people. Why is "Manjusri made" Laba porridge so popular? Because this cup of porridge selects 13 kinds of superior ingredients such as red orange cake, black fragrant rice, walnut kernel, sweet lily, lotus seed rice, small job's tears, small red beans, red jujube circle, medlar, white glutinous rice, brown sugar, peanut kernel and pearl rice, and then simmers for 3 hours. It tastes fragrant, soft and waxy, sweet but not greasy. No wonder a bowl of Laba porridge will rush into the microblog hot search.
Without much to say, the little friends in Chengdu go to the porridge offering point in Manjusri hospital. They can't drink it late. Source: phoenix.com