As the saying goes: "After Laha is the year", in order to have a good omen for the coming year, a bowl of Laha congee to warm the stomach is indispensable!

The origin of Lapa Festival

Lapa Festival, also known as Lapa Festival, Lapa Festival, Marquis Lapa, or Buddha's day, was originally an ancient ritual to celebrate the harvest, thank ancestors and gods (including the gods of the door, the gods of the house, the gods of the house, the gods of the stove, the gods of the well). Later evolved into a religious festival to commemorate the Buddha Sakyamuni became Taoist.

The Xia Dynasty called the day of the wax for the "Jia Ping", the Shang Dynasty for the "clear sacrifice", the Zhou Dynasty for the "wax"; held in December, it is called the month of the wax month, called the day of the wax festival for the Waxing Day. Pre-qin wax day in the winter solstice after the third into the day, the north and south dynasty began to be fixed on the eighth day of the wax month.

The Legend of Lapa Festival

There are many stories circulating in the folklore about the origin of Lapa congee. The most widely circulated version is that Laha congee came from India. Legend has it that when Sakyamuni or Jodama Siddhartha, one day walking on the waterfront, pregnant six years of hard work and not yet achieved, the body lack of strength and decline, shaking, fortunately a shepherdess for the milk, only to turn the danger into peace. Buddha by the guardian of the mind, in the water under the Bodhi tree meditation, and finally got the great meaning, penetrate the four truths of suffering, silence and extinction of the Road. This day was the eighth day of the Lunar New Year. The descendants did not forget his suffering, and ate porridge on the eighth day of the first month of every year to commemorate him.

Customs of Laha Festival

Laha congee is a kind of congee boiled with many kinds of ingredients on Laha Festival, which is also called seven treasures and five flavors congee. It is eaten to celebrate a good harvest and has been passed down to this day. In ancient times, on the eighth day of the twelfth month of the lunar calendar, the Chinese folk custom of eating "Laha congee" was passed down. In Henan, Laha congee, also known as "everyone rice", is a festive food custom in honor of the national hero Yue Fei.