"after the Laba, to the year", La 8. Many citizens have begun to be busy for years. In the old Ji'nan life, every day of the festival, cleaning the house, cooking porridge, preserved wax 8 meat, adults and children are busy for the Spring Festival, a lot of fun things. Today, let's talk about the Laba Festival. The origin of Laba Festival is
30 seconds. But for Buddhists, Laba and Buddha are inseparable. Laba Festival is also known as "Buddha's Road Festival". According to legend, before Shakya Muni became a Buddhist priest, he wanted to be ascetic and sat quietly for six years. A shepherd's miscellaneous rice and the porridge made from sheep's milk saved him. Shakya Muni, who recovered his physical strength, sat down under a bodhi tree and became a Buddha on the December 8th day of the lunar calendar. In order to commemorate the later generations, he gave porridge to Buddha at the beginning of the eight day of the twelfth lunar month. Later, the monks began to porridge the male and female believers on this day, and became popular with Buddhism. Although it is only a bowl of small Laba porridge, it is entrusted with the wish of good men and women. The custom of eating Laba porridge has been inherited for more than 1000 years, and the Jinan people have been drinking more than 1000 years of Laba porridge.
drink Laba porridge and pray for longevity. In the life of the old Jinan people, Laba porridge must be drunk on the Laba Festival to bless and prolong the life of the family members. Because the Laba porridge has the meaning of worshiping gods and ancestor, including the traditional sacrificial tradition.
famous folk custom expert, Shandong University professor Li Wanpeng textual research, the "wax sacrifice" is the ancient sacrificial ceremony, the ancestors in the moon hunting for wild beasts to sacrifice God, pray for the next year, the family is safe.
and in old Ji'nan, the origin of the Laba porridge is also a variety of legends, the most widely spread is the commemoration of the Buddha, the monasteries to cook porridge for the Buddha, the Laba porridge is also called the seven treasures of the five congee. It was also said that Laba porridge was related to Ming Tai Zu. Zhu Yuanzhang was poor when he was a child. He found rice, bean and jujube in the rat hole. Later, he was the emperor, and he had eight porridge at the beginning of the lunar month and named the Laba porridge.
the Laba porridge is a good ancestor after it is good, and then it will be given to relatives and friends, and it must be sent out before noon, and finally the whole family is eaten. Cleaning the house for the new year
in the life of the old Jinan, "the Laba Festival sweeping house" is a custom that has been passed down for many years, and every household is busy cleaning up on this day. Because of the fear of provoking "the God of the house", we can not normally sweep the house at ordinary times, but it does not have this taboo on the day of La 8, and it can be assured to sweep the house boldly. If Laba did not sweep the house this day, he would have to wait until the twenty-three "sacrifice kitchen" in the twelfth lunar month.