The next festival on New Year's Day-Laba Festival
New Year's Day is the first festival in 2022, and it is also an important international festival. After New Year's Day, the next festival is Laba Festival. Laba Festival is a traditional festival in China. June 65438+ 10/0, June 2022, the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. Also known as Laba, it is suitable for moving, getting married, entering the house, bathing and cooking. Avoid marriage, burial, burial and travel. Laba was originally a Buddhist festival to commemorate the enlightenment of Sakyamuni Buddha, and later it gradually became a folk festival. Up to now, there are still many traditional cultural customs about Laba in China.
The custom of Laba Festival
Laba Festival is one of the traditional festivals in China. Because it was originally the anniversary of Buddhism, there are other names, such as "Magic Weapon Festival", "Buddhist Enlightenment Festival" and "Enlightenment Society". In northern China, there is a saying that "children should not be greedy, it is the year after Laba", which means the prelude to the Chinese New Year. The most common custom of Laba Festival is to eat Laba porridge, which was first handed down from temples and spread to the people and became one of the traditional foods of Laba Festival. In addition to Laba porridge, Laba Festival also includes Laba vinegar, Laba tofu, Laba garlic and other traditional foods.
Why do you drink Laba porridge on Laba Festival? The raw materials of Laba porridge are all sweet and warm products, which have the effects of regulating the spleen and stomach, invigorating the middle energizer, invigorating qi and nourishing blood, expelling cold and strengthening the body, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst. Modern people with chronic diseases are more suitable for eating coarse cereals every day, and it is still very healthy to eat all kinds of coarse cereals porridge. On Laba Day, government agencies, monasteries and ordinary people's homes will cook Laba porridge. In the Qing Dynasty, the custom of drinking Laba porridge became more popular. On Laba Festival, some places in China have the custom of drinking Laba porridge. Although the ingredients of Laba porridge in different regions are different, they basically include cereals such as rice, millet, glutinous rice, sorghum rice, purple rice and coix seed, beans such as soybeans, red beans, mung beans, kidney beans and cowpeas, as well as red dates, peanuts, lotus seeds, lychees, walnuts, almonds and longan. Drinking Laba porridge on Laba Festival is not only a traditional custom, but also a way of keeping fit in winter.