This is a Beijing song called "After Lahua is the New Year"
The content of the song is as follows: "Children, children, children, don't be greedy, after Lahua is the New Year. The first two days of the year are the first day of the year, and the first two days of the year are the first day of the year.
About Lahai Festival
1, Lahai Festival, commonly known as "Lahai", that is, the eighth day of the twelfth month of the lunar calendar, the ancients have sacrificed to the ancestors and the gods, and prayed for the harvest of the tradition of good luck, and some areas of Lahai congee custom. Legend has it that this day is also the Buddha Shakyamuni became the day, known as "Dharma Treasure Festival", is one of the great Buddhist festivals.
2, the month of the end of the year called "wax" has three meanings: First, "wax, take also", the meaning of the old and the new (the "Sui book - rituals," recorded); Second, "wax with the hunting ", refers to the field hunting to get beasts and animals good ancestral sacrifice to God, "wax" from the "meat" side, is to use the meat "winter sacrifice"; three says "Waxing, by the epidemic to welcome the spring". Lapa Festival is also known as the "Buddha into a festival", also known as "into a meeting", in fact, can be said to be the first eight days of December for the origin of Lapa Day.
3, holiday proverbs
After the Lapa is the year
Drinking Lapa congee, the "year" to do
Lapa Ice, eat bad people
Who chimney smoke, who sorghum first red tip
Lapa Lapa, freezing off the chin
Lapa Lapa, freezing off
Lapa Lapa, freezing off the chin
Lapa Lapa, freezing off the chin
Lapa Lapa, freezing off the chin
Winter wheat is covered with three layers of quilts, and in the coming year you will sleep on a pillow of steamed bread.
La Ba. Laha, yes, Laha, no, Hassa
Laha, sacrificial stove, the New Year is coming, the daughter wants to spend, the boy wants to gun, the old mother ate cinnamon cake, the old man wore a new felt hat
Eat the Laha rice on the New Year to do!
4, a brief history
Since ancient times, Lahai is a sacrificial ceremony used to worship ancestors and gods (including the god of the door, the god of the house, the god of the house, the god of the stove, the god of the well), praying for a good harvest and good luck. According to "Rituals - Suburban Special Adoption", Lahai is "the twelfth month of the year, gathering all things together and soliciting food and drink." Xia dynasty called the wax day for "Jia Ping", the Shang dynasty for the "clear sacrifice", the Zhou dynasty for the "big wax"; held in December, it is called the month for the wax month, the day of the wax festival for the wax day. Pre-qin waxing day in the winter solstice after the third day of the 11th, and later the introduction of Buddhism, in order to expand the influence in the local community so attached to the traditional culture of the waxing festival as the day of the Buddha's path to enlightenment. Later, with the prevalence of Buddhism, the day of the Buddha and Lapa Day fusion, in the field of Buddhism is known as "Dharma Treasure Festival". Only from the North and South Dynasties was it fixed on the eighth day of the first month of the Lunar New Year.
Shuo Wen: "the winter solstice after the third eleventh day of wax sacrifices to all the gods." It can be seen that the third 11th day after the winter solstice was once the Lunar New Year's Day. Later, due to the intervention of Buddhism, Waxing Day was changed to the eighth day of the twelfth month, and it has been a custom ever since.
5, Laha congee
Laha congee Laha this day to eat Laha congee custom, Laha congee is also known as the seven treasures five flavors of congee. The history of drinking Laha congee in China has been more than a thousand years. The earliest began in the Song Dynasty. Every Laha day, whether it is the court, the government, the temple or the people's home to do Laha congee. In the Qing Dynasty, the custom of drinking Laha congee was even more prevalent. In the court, the emperor, the empress, the emperor's son and so on to the civil and military ministers, court ladies give Laha congee, and to the various monasteries to distribute rice, fruit and so on for the monks to eat. In the folk, families also do Laha congee, worship ancestors; at the same time, the family reunion together to eat, gifts to friends and relatives.
The ingredients used in Laha congee vary from region to region, but basically include rice, millet, glutinous rice, sorghum rice, purple rice, barley and other grains, soybeans, red beans, mung beans, kidney beans, cowpeas and other legumes, jujubes, peanuts, lotus seeds, goji berries, chestnuts, walnuts, almonds, cinnamon, raisins, white fruit and other dried fruits. Lapa congee is not only a seasonal food, but also a good health food, especially suitable for maintaining the spleen and stomach in cold weather.
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