【篇一】
Laba is celebrated on the eighth day of the last lunar month, referring to the traditional start of celebrations for the Chinese New Year. La in Chinese means the 12th lunar month and ba means eight.
Legends about the origin of this festivity abound. One holds that over 3,000 years ago sacrificial rites called La were held in the twelfth lunar month when people offered their preys to the gods of heaven and earth. The Chinese characters for prey and the twelfth month were interchangeable then, and ever since La has been used to refer to both.
Since the festival was held on the eighth day of the Last month, people later appended the number eight (ba in Chinese), giving us the current Laba .
The majority Han Chinese have long followed the tradition of eating Laba rice porridge on the Laba Festival. The date usually falls in mid-January.
【篇二】
The Laba porridge is also called the five flavor porridge of the seven treasures. China has been drinking the history of the Laba porridge for more than one thousand years. It first began in the Song Dynasty. Every day on the day of the Laba, all the families have to do the Laba porridge. In the Qing Dynasty, the custom of drinking the Laba porridge was more prevalent. At the court, the emperor would give the minister to the Minister of Wen and Wu to give the porridge to the Laba. In the folk, families also have to do the Laba porridge, sacrificing the ancestors; at the same time, the family is reunited to eat together and give gifts to relatives and friends.
"Laba" is the grand festival of Buddhism. Before around the temple for Buddha, cooked porridge for the Buddha. Legend had later can get the Buddha bless, can also increase the life-extension. So people call it the "Buddha congee." Southern song dynasty lu you did: "the present Buddha congee is more feedback, the festival new jiang village."
Varied from different regions of China, laba rice porridge, among them with Beijing's most exquisite, porridge in red jujube, lotus seeds... A total of more than 20 kinds. The seventh evening, began to busy, washing rice, fruit, in began to cook in the middle of the night, and stew until the second day of early morning, laba rice porridge is ok. Can you think, such a complex is bad to drink? Pay attention to the family, but also the fruit first carved into all kinds of things, and in the pot boil. Laba rice porridge boil, ancestor worship to worship god. After to give friends and family, must be sent out before noon. The last is the whole family to eat.
A bowl of porridge with so much knowledge, China is really not the kui is a civilized country! I'm so proud of themselves as Chinese!