In ancient China, the Emperor of Heaven, in December of the lunar calendar, used dry things to make a La Worship to worship the gods. La Worship includes two aspects: one is sacrifice; The second is prayer.
Sacrifice is to worship the eight-valley star god, offering it with dry things to express the meaning of Qingfeng harvest. Dry matter is called wax, and eight is the god of eight grains and stars, so it is called Laba. In terms of time, La Worship is held on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month every year in the lunar calendar. The eighth day of the twelfth lunar month is also called Laba.
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Legend of the origin of Laba porridge
1, out of people's memory of loyal minister Yue Fei
At that time, Yue Fei led his troops to fight against gold in Zhuxian Town, which was in the severe winter of September. Yue Jiajun was poor in food and clothing, hungry and cold, and all the people sent porridge one after another. Yue Jiajun had a full meal of "everyone's meal" 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.
2. Laba porridge saved Zhu Yuanzhang's life.
It is said that when Zhu Yuanzhang was a child, his family was very poor, so he herded cattle for a rich man. One day, when I came back from herding cattle, I crossed a wooden bridge. The cow slipped and fell off the bridge and broke its leg. The old rich man was angry and put him in a house without food.
Zhu Yuanzhang was so hungry that he suddenly found a rat hole in the house. When he opened it, it turned out to be a granary for rats, which contained rice, beans and red dates. He put these things together and cooked a pot of porridge, which tasted very sweet and delicious.
Later, when Zhu Yuanzhang became emperor, he remembered it again and asked the chef to cook a pot of porridge mixed with all kinds of grain and beans. It happened to be the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, so it was called Laba porridge.
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