Today is the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month,
Laba Festival.
When I was a child, every time when Laba came,
my mother would always cook a pot of Laba porridge,
yellow rice, purple rice, peanuts, jujube paste...
The fragrance was thick and steaming,
a bowl of human fireworks. After
grew up and left home,
the slow-cooked porridge was not served for a long time, and
the Laba Festival was also forgotten.
Mother’s phone rang on time:
“Today is Laba Festival,
Mom is not around, remember to drink porridge,
If you find it troublesome, go to a store and buy a bowl. "
I smiled helplessly:
"This kind of festival dedicated to eating porridge,
I don’t know who came up with it. "
Mother's gentle voice rarely became serious:
"Nonsense, Laba is not as simple as eating a bowl of porridge. "
- The relationship between Laba and New Year's Eve has to be said
Children, don't worry,
After Laba, it is the New Year.
In fact, the oldest festival in China is not New Year's Eve,
but the December Festival.
As early as when Shennong lived in the land of China,
because he wanted to offer sacrifices to heaven and earth and pray for good weather,
the December Festival came into being.
Later,
derived two brothers, "Ji Zao" and "New Year's Eve".
The three swords combined to undertake the work of saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new.
After Buddhism was introduced to China,
people felt that there should be a religious festival at the end of the year,
so the younger brother "Laba" officially went to work in his name,
was mainly responsible for Buddhist sacrifices and celebrations.
Because these four festivals all fall in the twelfth lunar month,
are bundled together,
and are called the "nian-guarantee family".
Among the four brothers,
has the best relationship with Laba on New Year's Eve,
because every year, Laba, the younger brother, always takes the lead,
heats up the place, and
makes his debut on New Year's Eve.
In the Tang Dynasty ,
the influence of Buddhism gradually expanded,
the Laba Festival also gradually received attention.
Every time on this day,
people gather together to light lanterns for Buddha and pray sincerely.
Dinner gatherings are essential when carrying out activities.
However, people who believe in Buddhism are vegetarians.
Big fish and meat are absolutely not acceptable.
Brother Laba used his brains and developed Laba porridge.
It is both unique and healthy.
Laba porridge quickly became an Internet celebrity food.
In ancient times, during grand festivals or bad times,
officials and kind-hearted gentry would often set up tents to provide porridge.
It was also influenced by the Laba Festival.
However,
although the Laba Festival has become more popular,
still has not forgotten his good brother's New Year's Eve.
will do his best to warm up the scene for him every year.
So after the Laba Festival was gradually forgotten,
he still showed up with his little brother on New Year's Eve.
Their friendship lasted for thousands of years.
- The oldest Thanksgiving Day
Laba Festival,
Drinking porridge is just a formality,
Preview of New Year's Eve is just incidental,
If we really want to trace its meaning,
then it should be the oldest Thanksgiving Day for the Chinese.
Laba Laba means people who hunt together with the Laba people.
The original meaning of "hunting" is to harvest prey to sacrifice to ancestors and gods.
Thank them for blessing them with a bumper harvest and good weather in the past year.
A bowl of Laba porridge,
the ingredients used are not expensive.
Millet, red bean, water chestnut...
are all very ordinary grains,
but every grain of grain is hard-won.
Be grateful to the natural rain and dew, the sun, the moon and the stars.
A piece of land allows seeds to take root.
A burst of spring rain encourages the growth of young shoots.
One grain of millet is planted in spring, and
0,000 grains are harvested in autumn.
I am grateful for the autumn harvest,
those bent backs, sunburned faces, and dripping sweat.
A bowl of rice is very cheap,
but its growth process is not simple.
The attachment to the land is a complex engraved in the bones of the Chinese people.
Food is the most important thing for the people,
a bowl of porridge,
is the epitome of thousands of acres of fertile land.
On the day of Laba, the epidemic is over and the spring is welcomed.
The old people in the village said that
children are prone to getting sick and crying, and
adults are not going well in their careers.
This is all because of the evil spirits of the epidemic.
Epidemic ghosts are most afraid of red things,
so red beans are put into Laba porridge.
This is called "red beans to fight ghosts".
On this day of Laba,
we are grateful that our family and friends are safe and well,
and hope that they will always be with us in the coming year and every year.
After Laba Festival is New Year's Eve,
After New Year's Eve is the new year.
Be grateful that the four seasons are changing,
spring is coming as promised,
be grateful that the years have changed,
engrave your life.
- Use the memory of love to cook a bowl of thick porridge
When I was a child, I read Bing Xin's "Laba Porridge".
I just remember that there are a lot of ingredients in it.
It must be much more delicious than what my mother made.
Reading it now,
feels a lot of emotion.
She wrote in the article,
Her mother cooks Laba porridge every year,
because that day is the anniversary of her grandmother’s death.
My mother passed away later, and
's death anniversary happened to be the day of Laba.
She took over her mother's apron and
started to cook porridge for the children.
Perhaps at that time, she suddenly realized why her mother was obsessed with that bowl of Laba porridge.
Because when making porridge,
it always reminded people of the days when she was a child,
eagerly waiting for her mother to bring the hot porridge to the table.
Those calloused, rough hands,
cooked countless meals,
nurtured the growth of the children.
Every bowl of Laba porridge contains
unique memories.
Those days when the family sat around and drank porridge,
Those days when I was so hot that I cried because I couldn't wait for the porridge to cool down,
Those days when I was scolded by my mother for eating red dates
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The meaning of the festival is to let us remember the warm fragments
in our ordinary life.
People are made up of memories.
Running forward blindly will make life thin.
The past is inevitably forgotten.
Festivals are like colorful paintbrushes,
drawing an eye-catching circle in the calendar of life.
It reminds us,
Don't forget the old people and things,
Don't forget the past self.
Today’s Laba,
If you have leisure,
drink a bowl of porridge.
In the cold winter,
makes the soul hot.
[Copyright Statement] This article was originally published by Poetry World. Author: Hu Huwen.
