The origins and customs of the Rakshasa Festival are taught as follows:

Legend has it that Buddha Siddhartha Gautama, who had been practicing for many years and still had nothing to show for it, jumped into a river one day to clear his head, and after bathing he was no longer able to climb back to the shore. A woman named Sujata passed by and pulled him to shore.

Suyeda also gave him a bowl of porridge made of rice and chestnuts, which the Buddha ate with great energy and came to enlightenment under the Bodhi tree, which happened to be on the eighth day of the twelfth month of the lunar calendar. From then on, the disciples of the Buddha will be the eighth day of the twelfth month known as "Buddha became a festival", in this day, the temple will be to the world to give thin porridge. As a result, the custom of eating congee on the 8th day of the 12th month has gradually developed.

Activity program:

I. Recognize Laha Festival and Laha congee.

The teacher and the children watched related videos and pictures together to let them understand the origin of the Laha Festival.

1. Activity Preparation

1, pictures of various kinds of Laha congee, materials for making Laha congee, and the video of the story of Laha congee; 2, knowledge of the Spring Festival and the Laha Festival before the class; 3, preparation of the teaching materials.

2, talk about the introduction

Teacher: children, do you remember what the eighth day of the twelfth month of the lunar calendar is a holiday? Every year on the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, a family have to do what? Teacher: want to boil out the sweet-smelling congee, we have to prepare what things ah?

3. Explore the process of making Laha congee with the children and draw the order of making Laha congee

① Introduce the ingredients: Teacher: Today we have a master of making Laha congee, look who he is. (Invite the foreign teacher to appear.) The teacher has brought a lot of things, let's take a look!

While the children are gathered around the table, the teacher guides the children to name the ingredients and the utensils prepared.

②Guide the children to boldly express the method of making Laba congee: Teacher: What is the purpose of preparing these things? You can cook? It seems that children have learned to cook Laha congee! Are you willing to tell the teacher how you will do? Teacher: How can we make sweet and fragrant Laha congee? What to put first, and then what to put.

La Bao Festival is to commemorate who:

La Bao Festival, originally for the Buddhist commemoration of Shakyamuni Buddha became a holiday, and then gradually also become a folk festival. According to Buddhist records, Siddhartha Gautama had been practicing austerity for many years before he became a Buddhist, and after he realized that austerity was not the way to liberation, he decided to give up austerity.

Then he met a shepherd girl who presented him with milk, and after eating it, he recovered his strength, sat under the Bodhi tree and meditated, and "became a Taoist monk" on December 8th. To commemorate this event, the Buddhists held a puja on this day, using rice and fruits to make porridge for the Buddha.