Cultural Connotation of Lahai Festival:

Since the ancient times, Lahai is a sacrificial ceremony used to worship ancestors and deities (including the gods of the door, the house, the house, the stove, and the god of the well), praying for a good harvest and good fortune. According to "Sacrifice Records - Suburban Special Adults", the Lapa Festival is "the twelfth month of the year, and the gathering of all things together and the solicitation of food and drink." ?

The Xia Dynasty called the day of the wax 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 of the wax month, the day of the wax festival for the wax. Waxing Day. The pre-Qin waxing day in the winter solstice after the third day of the eleventh, and then with the prevalence of Buddhism, the Buddha became the day of the fusion of waxing day, in the field of Buddhism is known as the "Dharma Treasure Festival", North and South Dynasty began to be fixed on the eighth day of the first month of the waxing month.

La Bark Festival to drink La Bark porridge, but also bubble La Bark garlic. Lapa congee is made with a variety of rice, dried fruit, which has yellow rice, white rice, rice, millet, millet, chestnuts, red beans, mung beans, black beans, peanuts, raisins, almonds, lychee meat, cinnamon meat, etc. made of sweet and savory, and nutritious.

La Baigi garlic is in the Laha Festival on the day of the garlic cloves soaked in rice vinegar, New Year's Day to bring with the dumplings to eat, soak Laha garlic is some places in the north of the folklore.

Customs of Lahai Festival:

Lahai Festival is celebrated on the eighth day of the twelfth month of the lunar calendar every year, and the main custom is to "drink Lahai congee". Laha Festival is one of the grand festivals of Buddhism. According to Buddhist records, Siddhartha Gautama had practiced asceticism for many years before he became a Buddhist, and after he realized that asceticism was not the way to liberation, he decided to give up asceticism.

Then met a shepherdess presented milk, after eating the physical strength to recover, sitting under the Bodhi tree meditation, on December 8, "became a Taoist". To commemorate this event, Buddhists held a puja on this day, using rice and fruits to make porridge for the Buddha. Wu Zimu (Southern Song Dynasty) wrote in Mengliang Lu (Records of the Dreaming Liang): "The eighth day of this month is called Lapa in monasteries. Dasha and other temples, all set up five-flavored porridge, called Lapa congee.