Drawing method/steps of Laba Festival

1 Draw a little girl with Gou Xianbi.

2 write Laba next to it.

3 Draw a bowl of Laba porridge under Laba.

4 color with marker.

5 At this time, a picture of Laba Festival is finished.

Laba Festival, that is, the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month every year, is also called "Magic Weapon Festival", "Buddha's Daoism Festival" and "Daoism Meeting". Originally a Buddhist festival to commemorate the enlightenment of Sakyamuni Buddha, it gradually became a folk festival. In the north of our country, there is a saying that "children don't be greedy, it's the year after Laba", which means the prelude to the Chinese New Year.

Every Laba Festival, the northern area is busy peeling garlic to make vinegar, soaking Laba garlic and eating Laba porridge. Laba is rarely mentioned in the south, and Laba Festival is a typical northern festival.

It is said that Laba Festival comes from the custom of "playing ghost with red beans". Legend has it that Zhuan Xu, one of the five emperors in ancient times, turned three sons into evil spirits after their death, and came out to frighten children. In ancient times, people generally believed in superstition and were afraid of ghosts and gods. They believed that adults and children suffered from stroke and were in poor health because of epidemic ghosts.

These evil spirits are fearless, only afraid of red (red) beans, so they have the saying that "red beans play tricks on ghosts". Therefore, on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, red adzuki beans and red adzuki beans are used to cook porridge to dispel the epidemic and welcome the auspicious.