Lead: There is a custom of cooking Laba porridge on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, which is called Laba Festival. There are various stories about the origin of Laba porridge. The following are pictures about the legend of Laba Festival that I shared for you. Welcome to learn from them!
Legend about Laba Festival: Buddha's Practice
It is said that Laba porridge originated from Sakyamuni, the founder of Indian Buddhism, who was originally the son of Sudoku king in northern ancient India. He saw that all beings were suffering physically and mentally, dissatisfied with the theocratic rule of Brahmins at that time, and gave up the throne and became a monk. After six years of asceticism, he became a Buddha under the bodhi tree on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. In the past six years, I have only eaten one hemp and one meter a day. Later generations did not forget his sufferings and ate porridge as a souvenir on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month every year. "Laba" became "Buddha's Day".
"Laba" is a grand festival of Buddhism. Before liberation, Buddhist temples all over the country held Buddhist bathing meetings, chanting sutras and chanting Buddha, and imitated the legendary story of a herder offering chyme before Sakyamuni became a monk, and made fragrant cereal porridge for the Buddha, which was called "Laba porridge". Laba porridge was presented to disciples and kind men and women, and later became a folk custom. It is said that in some monasteries, before the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, monks would hold alms bowls along the street and cook the collected rice, chestnuts, dates, nuts and other materials into Laba porridge and distribute it to the poor.
Legend has it that you can get the blessing of Buddha after eating it, so the poor call it "Buddha porridge". The Southern Song Dynasty poem says: "Today, Buddha porridge is more mutually beneficial, thinking that Jiangcun is frugal and new. "It is said that Tianning Temple, a famous temple in Hangzhou, has a' rice warehouse' for storing leftovers. Usually the monks in the temple dry the leftovers every day, accumulate a year's' surplus grain', and cook them into Laba porridge for the believers on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. It is called "Fushou porridge" and "Fude porridge", which means that they can increase their happiness and longevity after eating them. It can be seen that the monks at that time cherished the virtue of food.
Legend of Laba Festival: Zhu Yuanzhang and Laba Porridge
Legend has it that Laba porridge was invented by Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Yuanzhang's hometown is Fengyang, Anhui. When he was a child, his family was poor. In order to reduce the burden on his family and make a living, he had to go to the landlord's house to herd cattle. The landlord is fierce and mean. At the first sign of trouble, he scolded Zhu Yuanzhang and often skipped meals, leaving him hungry. On one occasion, Zhu Yuanzhang led an old buffalo across a wooden bridge. The bridge deck is too narrow. The old buffalo stepped empty, fell off the bridge and broke its leg. How can you blame Zhu Yuanzhang? But the vicious landlord beat Zhu Yuanzhang, locked him in a broken house full of sundries and refused to give him food.
It has been closed for two days and two nights, and Zhu Yuanzhang has not a drop of water or a grain of rice. His lips are parched with thirst, and his eyes are golden with hunger. Isn't it starvation? Something must be done. Zhu Yuanzhang searched around the house and found nothing but a broken pot.
Just when he was desperate, a mouse ran past him and got into a hole. Zhu Yuanzhang thought, catch a fresh one? In order to satisfy hunger. He found a shovel and dug along the mouse hole. Dig and dig, almost to the bottom of the hole, the mouse has escaped. Unexpectedly, this is the granary of mice, which contains rice, beans, millet, red dates, taro and so on. Although it is not much, it is all a little. Zhu Yuanzhang was overjoyed. He quickly picked it up and put it in a broken jar. He also asked to help his old man get some water and boil it in a pot. As a result, I cooked a mess of porridge. Zhu Yuanzhang ate it in one breath and it was delicious. He felt that he had never eaten anything so delicious. Zhu Yuanzhang, who was full, lay down and slept on the spot and had a dream.
Later, Zhu Yuanzhang joined the peasant uprising army. He fought bravely in the east and west, and later ascended the throne of the emperor. When Zhu Yuanzhang became emperor, he ate whatever he wanted, and he was tired of eating delicacies. One day, he remembered the porridge cooked with mouse food and beans when grazing cowboys. It's sweet. I want to try it again. Besides, after all, he is a man who has suffered a lot since he was a child. He feels that he should not forget the bitter days of the past, so that he can make great efforts to save Zhujiajiang Mountain. So, Zhu Yuanzhang sent a message to the chef and cooked a pot of porridge with all kinds of grain and legumes and vegetables, asking him to taste it. It happened to be the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, and this kind of porridge is called Laba porridge. Zhu Yuanzhang attached great importance to educating his children. He made them eat this kind of Laba porridge, so that when they enjoyed the prosperity, they should not forget the hardships of their ancestors' entrepreneurship. Zhu Yuanzhang also stipulated that every year on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, civil and military officials and the royal family should eat Laba porridge. Over time, this ethos has also spread to the people, forming a custom.
Legend about Laba Festival: The ancients advocated frugality and housekeeping.
In the early years, there was such a family of four, an old couple and two sons. The old couple are very diligent and do farm work all the year round. Plow in spring, hoe in summer, harvest in autumn, and work hard for one day. All kinds of food stored at home are large and small. There is also a big jujube tree in their yard. The dates carefully cultivated by the old couple are crisp and sweet. When they collect and sell, they can sell a lot of money, and they live a very rich life. The old couple ran all their lives to get married to their two sons.
Seeing that his son is getting old day by day, he can marry, and the old couple are getting old and dying. After his father died, he told his brothers to plant crops well. When the old mother died, she told her brothers to take good care of the jujube trees in the yard and save money for a wife.
There are only two brothers left in a family of four. Seeing this big hoard full of small hoards of food, my brother said to his younger brother, "We have so much food, that's enough. Take a year off this year! "
The younger brother said, "This jujube tree is not tight this year. Anyway, we don't lack dates to eat. "
In this way, the two brothers are getting lazy and greedy. All I know is that you eat, drink and be merry year after year, and eat all the food in a few years. The jujube trees in the yard are getting worse every year.
My brother brought a small dustpan and swept it in the cracks between big warehouse and the small warehouse where food was stored before. He swept a handful of yellow rice grains from here and found a handful of red beans from there. In this way, a few handfuls of miscellaneous grains were collected, the quantity was small, but there were many samples. Finally, he found some dried red dates and put them in the pot to cook together. After cooking, the two brothers began to eat porridge made of whole grains, and their eyes looked at each other, remembering what their parents said before they died, and they regretted it very much.
The two brothers suffered from laziness. After losing their children, they both worked hard the next year. Like my parents, I lived a good life after a few years, married a daughter-in-law and had children.
In order to learn the lesson of laziness, people should never forget to be thrifty. Since then, on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, people have eaten porridge cooked with whole grains. Because this day is the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, people call it "Laba porridge".
Legend of Laba Festival: Mourning the Construction Team of Migrant Workers in Qin Changcheng
Qin Shihuang built the Great Wall, and all migrant workers were ordered to come. They can't go home for many years, and they rely on their families to send them food. Some migrant workers whose homes are separated by water in Qian Shan are unable to deliver meals, resulting in many migrant workers starving to death at the site of the Great Wall. One year, on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, migrant workers who had no food jointly accumulated a few handfuls of coarse grains, put them in a pot and cooked them into porridge. Everyone drank a bowl and finally starved to death under the Great Wall. In order to mourn the migrant workers who starved to death at the site of the Great Wall, people eat Laba porridge as a memorial on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month every year.
In Baotou, besides the Great Wall built by the earlier King Wuling of Zhao, there is also a relatively complete Qin Changcheng. In 2 15 BC, Meng Tian, the general sent by Qin Shihuang, led 300,000 troops to attack the Xiongnu in the north and took the land of Henan. In order to prevent the invasion of northern nomads, the Great Wall of Wan Li was built from Shanni County, Gansu Province in the west to Liaodong County, Liaoning Province in the east. After extending from Ningxia to Inner Mongolia, from Langshan to the east, it passes through Xidoupu, Yin Hao and Damiao Township in the north of Guyang County.
The total length of Qin Changcheng in Baotou City is about1.20km, and most of it is built on the north slope of the mountain. It is dangerous to rely on the mountain, and it is possible to rely on the mountain. Most of the valley passes and Pingchuan areas are built with rammed earth, and most of the mountains are built with stone or mixed earth and stone. Generally, Stone Great Wall Scienc Spot remains are well preserved, and the existing external walls are generally more than 4m high, 4m wide at the bottom and 2m wide at the top. Standing on a high place, you can also see the Great Wall climbing up the mountain, which looks like Youlong. Every once in a while, you can tell the remains of ancient bonfires and fortress cities. There are 8-9 ancient city ruins inside and outside Qin Changcheng in Baotou, among which pottery pieces from Qin State to early Western Han Dynasty can often be found.
Qin Changcheng not only has its own style in construction methods, but also has certain characteristics in the construction of defense facilities. Qin Changcheng is famous for its magnificent stone buildings, which were used in the Han Dynasty. It is a treasure of our Chinese nation, a miracle in the history of world architecture and a symbol of our glorious history and culture.
Legend of Laba Festival: Remembering Yue Fei, a loyal minister.
The history of drinking Laba porridge in China is only recorded in writing, which has been 1000 years. It started in the Song Dynasty at the latest. On the day of Laba, whether it is the imperial court, the government, temples, or the people's homes, Laba porridge will be cooked. In the Ming Dynasty, rice, ginkgo, walnuts and chestnuts were added to cook porridge. In the Qing Dynasty, the custom of drinking Laba porridge became more popular. At court, emperors, queens and princes give laba porridge to civil and military ministers and attendants, and distribute rice and fruit to monasteries for monks to eat. In the folk, every household should also make laba porridge to worship their ancestors; At the same time, family members get together for dinner and give gifts to relatives and friends. The famous Lama Temple Laba porridge, in addition to glutinous rice, millet and other grains, also has diced mutton and cream. Porridge noodles are sprinkled with red dates, longan, walnuts, raisins, melon seeds and green shredded pork.
Laba Festival originated from people's memory of Yue Fei, a loyal minister. At that time, Yue Fei led troops to resist gold in Zhuxian town, which was in the severe winter of September. Yue Jiajun was hungry and cold, and people sent porridge one after another. Yue Jiajun had a hearty meal of "thousand porridge" sent by the people, and the result was a great victory. It was the eighth day of December. After Yue Fei's death, in order to commemorate him, people cooked porridge with miscellaneous grains and beans on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, which finally became a custom.
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