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As the saying goes, “Laba is the New Year”, the atmosphere of the New Year gradually becomes stronger from Laba. January 1, 2024Babaylan 1990 clothes draw8th is the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, which is the Laba Festival in traditional Chinese culture. Today there are three “big eventsCinema 1950 witch cloth draw” that can be done, drink porridge, soak garlic, and welcome the New Year!
When talking about Laba, most people will think of the first “big thing” to drink Laba porridge, but they may have less knowledge of the history behind it. Where did the customs of Laba Festival come from? In different historical periods, what were the differences between the ancients passing Laba? Let’s take a look at how the ancients celebrated Laba Festival!
Laba originated very early and is closely related to La Festival. Since the pre-Qin period, people will hold a wax festival at the end of the year, that is, use prey to worship ancestors and gods of heaven and earth, praying for a bumper harvest and peace for the whole family in the coming year. There is a saying in “Records of the Grand Historian: The Basic Annals of Qin”: “Twelve years, the first La.” It means that in the twelfth year of Qin Huiwenjun, the Qin State located in the west imitated the customs of the Central Plains and held the La Festival for the first time.
Komiks 1960 witch cloth drawThe day of the La Festival held is called the “La Day”. The La Festival in the Han Dynasty was on the third Xu day of December each year, and later generations gradually fixed on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. During the Eastern Han Dynasty, Cai Yong’s book “Duduanjue” clearly pointed out: “La is the end of the year.” Large-scale sacrificial activities in the twelfth lunar month have become a custom at that time. “Salvation for hundreds of gods” has also become one of the most important sacrifice activities to celebrate the harvest and pray for ancestors and gods at the end of the year.
The Book of Rites and Monthly Orders once recorded that the emperor at that time carried out sacrificial activities in the “commune” and prayed to the “Tianzong” for good weather in the coming year.The objects sacrificed include the ancestors Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw and the “Five Sacrifice God”, which include sacrifices to the door god, the Bego god, the Well god, the Kitchen God, the Earth God, etc. It can also be seen from this that the names and objects of the “La Festival” at that time were relatively complicated and there was no dedicated sacrificial object.
The customs of the La Festival have been passed down from generation to generation until the present. In Lu Xun’s short story “Blessings”, Lu Town’s year-end ceremony “Blessings”, a series of pre-New Year sacrificial activities are the inheritance of the ancient La Festival.
Laba custom was originally hunting
In the early days of the character “Cinema 1950 witch cloth draw”, many characters with similar meanings were inseparable. For example, the three words “Babaylan 1990 cloth drawwax”, “wax”, and “hunting”, come from the same origin. In fact, the initial appearance of Laba Festival is closely related to the hunting habits of the ancients.
The ancient times were not like the present, with sufficient grain reserves and production capacity to make everyone live through the winter. It was cold and cold in winter at that time, and it was impossible to produce food, and the food I had harvested before might not be enough to eat. Therefore, hunting has become a necessary means of production in winter.
The “Common Meaning of the Common Meanings” by Ying Shao from the Eastern Han Dynasty recorded: “La means hunting, hunting animals in fields to worship ancestors.” It meansKomiks 1960 witch clothes draw is when people hunt on La day and use prey to worship their ancestors. The meat that cannot be eaten at this time will be preserved by air-dried, marinated, etc. to survive the cold winter. This is the origin of “bacon”.
It is worth mentioning that during the Han and Tang Dynasties, the custom of drinking Laba porridge was not the custom of drinking Laba porridge during the Laba Festival, but the hunting trend has been continuing.
Laba was once a “carnival”
Feasting on Laday or Wax Day is ancient Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw wind. In the pre-Qin period, this festival was even a “carnival”. “The Book of Rites·Miscellaneous Notes” published: “ZiKomiks 1960 witch cloth draw tribute to wax. Confucius said: ‘Is it a pleasure to give me? ’An replied: ‘Everyone in a country is crazy, and he is not sure of his happiness. ’” Zigong (Duanmu Ci) expressed his discomfort to “Everyone is crazy” after visiting the “Wax Festival”. Confucius said that it took a year to nourish this day, and the truth is not something you can understand.
In the Tang Dynasty, Laba was very concerned about Laba Festival from the folk to the palace. The main festivals of the Laba Festival in the Tang Dynasty include “medicine and food” and lighting lamps. In addition, on Laba, they also held hunting, garden tours and other activities.
Wu Zetian visited Shangyuan on Laba. On the cold day of Laba, there were ice and snow, only plum blossoms were left, but she insisted that all flowers bloom. Looking at a spring scene in winter, she wrote the “Laba Day Execution of the Imperial Palace”: “The Ming Dynasty Travel Cinema 1950 witch clothes The draw garden is urgently Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw to the spring news. Flowers must be set off overnight, don’t wait for the morning breeze to blow. ”
Tao Yuanming, the first field in my country, had the greatest fun on this festival. His poem “Wax Day” says: Babaylan 1990 clothes draw“I sing you, how much is the wine. I haven’t figured out much, there are strange songs in Zhangshan. “Wao Day, I recite poems with wine and endless fun.
After the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the La Day became more and more lively, and there was also the nature of purchasing New Year’s goods for the New Year. The poem “Dao Wax” by Pei Xiu of the Jin Dynasty said: “Scale gathers in the capital and trade is intertwined. The flowers chase each other and turn their backs into curtains. There is meat like a hill, and there is wine like a spring. There are food like forests and goods like mountains. ”
There are so many things to buy, which shows that the year-end “Shopping Festival” is originally a traditional festival in our country.
Laba PorridgeThe appearance of the Song Dynasty
Laba porridge began to emerge in the Tang Dynasty, but it was only limited to the Dunhuang region and did not become popular in the Central Plains region. By the Song Dynasty, Laba porridge officially appeared. “Dream Lianglu” records: “On the eighth day of this month (December), the temple was called “LaCinema 1950 witch cloth drawBa’s temples all had five flavor porridge, called Laba porridge.” “Dongjing Menghualu” by Meng Yuanlao of the Southern Song Dynasty recorded: “On the day of the capital, all families also cooked porridge with fruits and miscellaneous ingredients and ate it.” Since then, Laba porridge has become popular and has been imitated in various places. In the early December 2018, Cinema 1950 witch cloth drawBa, the Laba Festival, which is the main custom of drinking Laba porridge.
Laba porridge is mainly made of XiangguCinema 1950 witch cloth draw and fruits as raw materials, and it has all five flavors, so it is also called “Five Flavors Porridge”. After evolution and development, the methods and ingredients of Laba porridge are more colorful, and Laba porridge in various places has its own characteristics. In addition, Laba porridge has evolved from Laba garlic, Laba vinegar, Laba noodles, Laba tofu, etc., making Laba Festival a food festival with health care as the theme.
Laba Festival is also regarded as a “charity day”. The ancients would definitely make Laba porridge early, and it would catch fire before dawn of the eighth day. Some people started cooking on the evening of the seventh day of the twelfth lunar month to ensure that the porridge was cooked before dawn of the eighth day, because the ancients believed in the saying that “the sooner the Laba porridge, the better.”
In the Song Dynasty, the Laba porridge cooked by monks and nuns in temples was also called “Buddha porridge”. When the Buddha porridge was given to the donor,Help the poor. After receiving the Buddha’s porridge, the donor will usually give back some money for oil or donate other property. Su Dongpo’s so-called “the Buddha’s porridge is more gifted to each other in the morning”, which means that the Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw is the meaning of this.
In the Qing Dynasty, for the purpose of “helping poverty”, monks in Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw began begging for alms to recruit rice before the Laba Festival. According to the “Yanqing County Chronicle” of Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty, in Yanqing, Beijing, “The monks raised rice along the gate in the early days. On that day, they made porridge and donated to the poor, and were the same as others.” Many non-Buddhist families would also give porridge and do good deeds on Laba Festival.
The Laba Festival customs at this time also showed some new changes in the festival customs based on the overall inheritance of previous customs, mainly including making wax vinegar and wax wine, shaving children’s Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw, piercing women’s ears, and asking for names.
The customs of Laba Festival have been deeply imprinted in the depths of the memory of Chinese people. No matter how time changes, it still exudes a unique charm and brings new blessings and hopes.
How will you spend Laba Festival?
(Reference materials: Gansu Daily, Inner Mongolia Daily, Dazhong Daily, Wenhui Daily, CCTV News, People’s Daily, Beijing Daily Client, Guangzhou Daily, Guangming.com, China News Network, etc.)
Topic Host | Reporter Zheng Zongmin