Many people in the past dynasties have written couplets about Laba. In this cold winter, it is very meaningful to feel the knowledge of Laba Festival in couplets.
"Yin Yueqing si; Jiaping, the name of Xia, not only wrote the earliest title of Lari, but also called Lari Jiaping in Xia Dynasty and Qing Si in Shang Dynasty. " "La" is an ancient name used to worship ancestors and gods at the end of the year. Because La Worship was held at the end of the year, it was called "twelfth lunar month", while the day held in La Worship was called "twelfth lunar month". The date of the twelfth lunar month has not been determined. In Han Dynasty, the third day after beginning of winter was used as wax, in Wei and Jin Dynasties, the morning was used as wax, and in Jin Dynasty, the ugly day was used as wax. It was not until the Southern and Northern Dynasties that the eighth day was fixed as the twelfth lunar month.
There are many sacrifices about the twelfth lunar month. "Monk Charlotte divided Laba porridge; Wuzhong City has Shangyuan Lantern Festival, which means Laba Festival, and monks in Luoyang area have the custom of distributing Laba porridge. And "offering sacrifices to tigers and welcoming cats follows the old example; The new theory "Ralph A Sheep" more vividly describes the ancient ways of sacrifice. Cats are welcome to feed voles, tigers to feed fields, and they are also welcome to sacrifice. It is said that after the busy farming in the twelfth lunar month, cats will be sacrificed to pray for the elimination of voles and the protection of crops, and Ralph refers to the day of sacrifice and La Worship. In addition, there is a description of the twelfth day sacrifice, "e club rewards God with a loud wax drum; Ding Nong divided the meat and tried the knife. "
"Jia ash blows north and south;" The plum calyx breaks south is slightly related to the twelfth lunar month, but its custom knowledge is very novel. The withered ash is to burn the reed film into ash and put it in the drum and the secret room to occupy the climate. When a season and climate come, withered ashes fly out of a legal tube, indicating that the season and climate have arrived. "Invasion of Ling Xue's colorful day lilies also; There are thin strips in the leaking spring. "As a couplet, it seems to be the most beautiful sentence in Du Fu's poem La Ri, which only meets the antithesis conditions and describes the day lily in bud and the snow scene invading the mausoleum.
"Three generations of British, aspiring not caught; One year went well, but I returned to my hometown "from Confucius' Li Yun". There is a story that Confucius once offered a wax sacrifice to Lu. After that, he came out to visit the balcony outside the ancestral temple, and he felt a sigh. Yan Yan asked the teacher why he sighed. Confucius said, "I, Kong Qiu, failed to catch up with the era when the Avenue was implemented and Xia, Shang and Zhou Xianwang were in power. I long for them to express Confucius' feelings for La Worship.
Today's Laba Festival continues the custom of cooking porridge to sacrifice ancestors and farmers, and eating Laba porridge is the most common form. Often at this time, the most appropriate couplet is "Laba porridge", which uses whole grains to resolve the ups and downs of the world; Dragon Boat Festival Zongzi, picking a fragrant leaf, turns the world into old, sick and dead ",which is a true concentration of history and culture and explains the profound significance of Laba Festival. In the face of a couplet describing Laba, apart from appreciating its flavor, I believe it also supplements our understanding of Laba Festival from far away to the present.