1. Laba Festival, commonly known as "Laba Festival", is a traditional festival of the Han nationality. There is a folk custom of eating "Laba porridge" and soaking Laba garlic (in some places, it is "Laba rice"). In Henan and other places, Laba porridge, also known as "everyone's meal", is a festive food custom in memory of the national hero Yue Fei.

2. Laba is an ancient sacrificial ceremony to celebrate the harvest and thank ancestors and gods (including door gods, household gods, house gods, kitchen gods, and well gods). In the Xia Dynasty, Laba was called "Jiaping" and in the Shang Dynasty it was "Jiaping". "Qingsi" was called "Daba" in the Zhou Dynasty. Because it is held in December, that month is called the twelfth lunar month, and the day of the twelfth lunar month is called the twelfth lunar month. The twelfth day of the pre-Qin period was the third Xu day after the winter solstice. The Laba Festival is a festival used to worship ancestors and gods and pray for a good harvest and good luck. Later, Buddhism was introduced in the Eastern Han Dynasty. In order to expand its influence in the local area, the traditional culture adopted the Laba Festival as the day when the Buddha became enlightened.

3. Why is the month at the end of the year called "La"? It has three meanings: First, "La is the connection", which means the alternation of the old and the new ("Sui Book of Etiquette" records). The second one is "those who hunt with wax", which refers to hunting in the field to obtain animals for worshiping ancestors and gods. "La" comes next to "meat", which means using meat for "winter sacrifice". It is said on the third day that "the period of December is to drive away the epidemic and welcome the spring". The Laba Festival is also called the "Buddha Enlightenment Festival" and the "Enlightenment Meeting". In fact, it can be said that the eighth day of December is the origin of the Laba Day.