Laba Festival represents people's gratitude for the good weather and bumper harvest in the past year, and also represents people's good wishes for everything to go well in the new year.

Laba is an ancient ritual to celebrate the harvest and thank ancestors and gods, including door gods, household gods, house gods, kitchen gods and well gods. The Xia Dynasty called La Ri "Jiaping", the Shang Dynasty "Qing Si" and the Zhou Dynasty "Da Wax". Because it is held in December, it is called the twelfth lunar month, and La Worship is called the twelfth lunar month.

the twelfth lunar month in the pre-Qin period is on the third day after the winter solstice. Laba Festival is a festival to worship ancestors and gods and pray for good harvest and good luck. Later, Buddhism was introduced in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and in order to expand its influence in the local area, traditional culture was attached to Laba Festival as the Buddha's Day of Enlightenment.

Laba Festival is an effective means to create a harmonious interpersonal relationship

Traditional festivals in China are always reserved and implicit, and the circle is generally confined to the happiness between family members. However, Laba Festival seems to have stepped out of the small circle of family members, and people have established a wider emotional connection through the gift and acceptance of Laba porridge.

in the song dynasty, every laba day, whether it was the imperial court, the government, the temple or the common people's homes, laba porridge was cooked. In the Qing Dynasty, the custom of drinking Laba porridge became more popular. At the court, the emperor, queen and prince all give Laba porridge to maids of honor and ministers of civil and military affairs, and distribute rice and dried fruits to monasteries for monks to eat.

In the folk, every household should also sacrifice Laba porridge to their ancestors, and at the same time, family groups get together to eat it and give it to relatives and friends. Laba Festival strongly promotes the communication between people and the harmony of interpersonal relationships with the help of agricultural achievements produced by the land.

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