There are many children’s songs and rhymes for the Laba Festival, the details are as follows.
1. Children, don’t be greedy, it’s the New Year after Laba. Lililala twenty-three, twenty-three sugar melon sticky, twenty-four house cleaning day, twenty-five to buy tofu, twenty-six to buy a catty of meat, twenty-seven to slaughter a chicken, twenty-eight handfuls of noodles, two Steamed steamed buns at the 19th, cooked overnight at the 30th, and dumplings for New Year's Eve every year.
2. Laba Laba, cold, cold. Take a sip of porridge, it will be warm and warm. Look at the moon, it’s round. Thinking of my friends is so sweet.
3. Children, don’t be greedy, it’s the New Year after Laba. After drinking Laba porridge for a few days, I will be like twenty-three. Twenty-three makes me sticky, twenty-four sweeps the house. Make tofu on the twenty-fifth and cook the meat on the twenty-sixth. Twenty-seven to kill the New Year Rooster, twenty-eight to make hair. Steaming steamed buns at twenty-nine and playing for one night at thirty. Twist and twist on New Year's Day.
Laba Festival, commonly known as Laba Festival, refers to the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. The Laba Festival is a festival used to worship ancestors and gods and pray for a good harvest and good luck. According to legend, this day is the day when Sakyamuni became enlightened and founded the religion under the Buddha Yabodhi. It is the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, so it is also called the Buddha. Enlightenment Day.
In China, there is a custom of drinking Laba porridge and soaking Laba garlic during the Laba Festival. In Henan and other places, Laba porridge is also called everyone’s meal. It is a festival food custom commemorating the national hero Yue Fei.