This is a song from Beijing called "After Laba Festival, it's New Year." The content of the song: Don't be greedy, little kid, after Laba Festival, it's New Year; after Laba Festival, it's New Year; if you drink Laba porridge for a few days, it will be twenty-three; twenty-three,

Tanggua is sticky; twenty-four, clean the house; twenty-five, frozen tofu; twenty-six, buy meat; twenty-seven, slaughter the rooster; twenty-eight, make the dough; twenty-nine, steam the steamed buns; thirty evening

Stay up all night; walk around the streets on the first and second day of the lunar month.

About Laba Festival 1. Laba Festival, commonly known as "Laba Festival", is the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. The ancients had the tradition of offering sacrifices to ancestors and gods and praying for a good harvest. In some areas, there is the custom of drinking Laba porridge.

According to legend, this day is also the day when Buddha Sakyamuni became enlightened. It is called the "Dharma Treasure Festival" and is one of the grandest festivals in Buddhism.

2. The name "La" for the month at the end of the year has three meanings: one is "the one who connects with the wax", which means the alternation of the old and the new (recorded in "Book of Sui·Li"); the other is "the one who hunts with the wax",

Refers to hunting in the field to obtain animals that can be used to worship ancestors and gods. "La" comes next to "meat", which means using meat for "winter sacrifice"; the third saying is "those with wax ward off epidemics and welcome spring."

The Laba Festival is also called the "Buddha Enlightenment Festival", also known as the "Enlightenment Meeting". In fact, it can be said that the eighth day of December is the origin of the Laba Day.

3. Festival proverb: After the Laba Festival, it is the New Year. If you drink Laba porridge, you will use "Nian" to make Laba ice. If you eat it, whose stove will smoke first, whose sorghum will be red first, Laba Laba, and Laba 7 will fall off if it freezes.

The jackdaws freeze to death in winter and sleep on a steamed bun next year.

Laba. Laba, some, Laba, no, Hasa Laba, sacrifice to the stove, New Year is coming, the girl wants flowers, the boy wants cannons, the old woman eats sweet-scented osmanthus cake, the old man wears a new felt hat and eats Laba rice to celebrate the new year.

!4. Historical introduction Since ancient times, Laba has been used as a sacrificial ceremony to worship ancestors and gods (including the door god, household god, house god, kitchen god, and well god) to pray for a good harvest and good luck.

According to the "Book of Rites: Jiao Te Sheng", the wax festival is "the twelfth month of the year, when all things are gathered together for a feast." The Xia Dynasty called the wax day "Jiaping", the Shang Dynasty called it "Qingsi", and the Zhou Dynasty called it "Daji".

"Wax"; because it is held in December, that month is called the twelfth lunar month, and the day of the wax offering is called the twelfth lunar month.

In the pre-Qin Dynasty, the Laba Festival was on the third Xu day after the winter solstice. Later, Buddhism was introduced. In order to expand its influence in the local area, it attached to traditional culture and designated the Laba Festival as the day when the Buddha became enlightened.

Later, with the popularity of Buddhism, the Buddha's Enlightenment Day was merged with the December Day, and it was called the "Dharma Treasure Festival" in the field of Buddhism.

It was only fixed on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month from the beginning of the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

"Shuowen" records: "Three Xu days after the winter solstice, sacrifices are made to hundreds of gods." It can be seen that the third Xu day after the winter solstice was once the wax day.

Later, due to the intervention of Buddhism, the twelfth lunar month was changed to the eighth day of December, and it has been a custom since then.

5. Laba porridge Laba porridge There is a custom of eating Laba porridge on Laba day. Laba porridge is also called Qibao and five-flavor porridge.

The history of eating Laba porridge in our country has been more than a thousand years.

It first started in the Song Dynasty.

On every Laba day, no matter the court, government, monasteries or ordinary people's homes, they must make Laba porridge.

In the Qing Dynasty, the custom of drinking Laba porridge became even more popular.

In the palace, the emperor, queen, prince, etc. would give Laba porridge to the ministers of civil and military affairs and the attendant maids, and distribute rice, fruits, etc. to various temples for the monks to eat.

Among the people, every family also makes Laba porridge to worship their ancestors; at the same time, families gather together to eat it and give it to relatives and friends.

Although the ingredients of Laba porridge vary in different regions, they basically include rice, millet, glutinous rice, sorghum rice, purple rice, barley and other cereals; beans such as soybeans, red beans, mung beans, kidney beans, cowpeas, red dates, peanuts, lotus seeds,

Dried fruits such as wolfberry, chestnut, walnut kernel, almond, longan, raisin, and ginkgo.

Laba porridge is not only a seasonal delicacy, but also a good health food, especially suitable for maintaining the spleen and stomach in cold weather.