1, draw a picture of a bear with Mark watching Laba porridge.
2. Write the word "Laba" on the bear.
3. Color the bear with a marker.
4. After coloring, draw a stick figure of Laba Festival.
Laba Festival, that is, the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, is also called "Magic Weapon Festival", "Buddhist Enlightenment Festival" and "Enlightenment Meeting". Originally a Buddhist festival to commemorate the enlightenment of Sakyamuni Buddha, it gradually became a folk festival. Laba porridge, also known as "seven treasures and five flavors porridge", "Buddha porridge" and "everyone's meal", is a kind of porridge made of various ingredients. The earliest written record of Laba porridge was in the Song Dynasty.
Wu's Dream in the Southern Song Dynasty says: "On the eighth day of this month, the temple name is Laba. Dasha and other temples have five-flavored porridge called Laba porridge. " China has been drinking Laba porridge for more than 1000 years. On Laba Day, government agencies, monasteries and ordinary people's homes will cook Laba porridge. In the Qing Dynasty, the custom of drinking Laba porridge became more popular.
In northern China, there is a saying that "children should not be greedy, it is the year after Laba", which means the prelude to the Chinese New Year. Every Laba Festival, the northern region is busy peeling garlic to make vinegar, soaking Laba garlic and eating Laba porridge. Laba is rarely mentioned in the south, and Laba Festival is a typical northern festival.
Laba Festival, the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, is the main custom of "drinking Laba porridge". Laba Festival is one of the grand festivals in Buddhism. Buddhism records that Sakyamuni practiced asceticism for many years before becoming a monk, and found that asceticism was not the way out, so he decided to give up asceticism.