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Distribution time of Laba porridge in Lingyin Temple

In Hangzhou, eating a bowl of hot Laba porridge on Laba Festival has become an expectation at the beginning of the new year. Maybe no city has different expectations for Laba porridge like Hangzhou. Yesterday, Lingyin Temple in Hangzhou began to officially distribute Laba porridge.

In the early morning of January 6 (the first day of the first lunar month in 1898), Laba porridge in Lingyin Temple of Hangzhou was formally cooked in boiling pot. It is understood that from the first day of the first lunar month to the morning of the eighth lunar month, Lingyin Temple will send more than 300000 fragrant and glutinous rice porridge to the people of Hangzhou and surrounding cities.

At 7 o'clock on the 6th, Lingyin Temple held a ceremony of boiling and sprinkling Laba porridge. The first bowl of Laba porridge was first offered to Buddha. At 7:30, the first batch of Laba porridge began to be sent out. At 8:30, the elderly of Qinghefang community residents committee, Qingbo street, Shangcheng District, Hangzhou city first tasted Laba porridge cooked in Lingyin Temple.

The original intention of the temple to make a bowl of Laba porridge is also affected by the participation of many enthusiasts and institutions. It is understood that this year, through the Internet and wechat, Lingyin Temple collected more than 300 charitable institutions and charity distribution units (including communities) to distribute Laba porridge. Among them, the Hangzhou Yunlin public welfare foundation and the Hangzhou Volunteer Association jointly sent the warmth of Laba Festival to key project sites, railway highways, subway long-distance passenger stations, street communities, hospital nursing homes, welfare homes and migrant children's schools. Laba porridge's beneficiary population is further expanded, and many elderly people in many communities can receive Laba porridge in Lingyin Temple at the door of their homes.

From the temple to the society, the whole city of Hangzhou takes Laba porridge as a link to celebrate the new year.

A bowl of Laba porridge is not only a transfer of love and warmth, but also a kind of inheritance of Chinese excellent traditional culture. 'master Guangquan, the abbot of Lingyin Temple, said that it is the fundamental to develop traditional festivals to explore the modern significance of traditional festivals. Lingyin Temple actively reshapes the Chinese traditional festival, Laba Festival, and constantly tries to innovate. It is to strive to cultivate national cultural self-confidence with the traditional Buddhist festival.

In 2008, Lingyin Temple inherited the tradition and resumed the activities of gruel making in Laba. The scale and scope of gruel making expanded year by year. Up to 2019, Lingyin Temple has carried out gruel making activities in Laba for 11 consecutive years, and the number of shares distributed has increased from 100000 at the beginning to more than 300000 today.

Lingyin Temple is in charge of cooking Laba porridge, the master told reporters that Lingyin Temple began to cook porridge in the early morning of the first day of the lunar month and ended at noon on the eighth day of the lunar month. Six steam cauldrons, 24-hour continuous porridge, can produce more than 40000 Laba porridge every day. In order to ensure the quality of Lingyin Laba porridge, the temple does not plan to expand the production scale.

The principle of Laba porridge delivered by Lingyin Temple in Hangzhou this year

(1) The elderly care institutions, children's welfare institutions, receiving and relief institutions and social public welfare organizations in Hangzhou will be dispatched first.

(2) Institutions providing services such as maintenance, rehabilitation and trusteeship for the elderly, the disabled, orphans and abandoned infants shall be dispatched first.

(3) Priority should be given to communities and neighborhood committees where the elderly are concentrated.

(4) The communities that have not sent Laba porridge in the past have given priority to the distribution, so that more people have the opportunity to feel the compassion and warmth from the Millennium ancient temple.

(5) Directly accept the application of social public welfare institutions and communities, and face the grass-roots level.

Where has Laba porridge of Lingyin Temple in Hangzhou gone?

The first bowl of Laba porridge every year is consecrated by the master in the Mahavira Hall of Lingyin Temple, praying for world peace, national prosperity, people's well-being and good weather.

Through the network and wechat, the charity distribution units will be collected and sent directly to the social public welfare institutions, communities and neighborhood committees where the elderly are concentrated.

Through news media in Hangzhou and Yunlin public welfare foundation, it is distributed to special social groups: Urban builders, sanitation workers, taxi drivers, migrant workers, airport station passengers, street traffic police, etc.