Folk proverb: "Children and children, don't be hungry, after the eighth year is the year." ”
Every year at the end of the lunar calendar, people call it La, which has many meanings such as "receiving" and "hunting", which means the replacement of the old and the new, driving away the epidemic and welcoming the spring.
LapPa is close to the Spring Festival, so it has been valued by people since ancient times, and is affectionately known as "Lapa Festival".
On this day, folk families have the custom of drinking "Laba Porridge", which is said to have been passed down for more than a thousand years, and today I will tell the story of the three ancient celebrities and "Lapa Porridge".
First of all, it is said that "Laba Porridge" originated from the Indian Shakyamuni Buddha.
Shakyamuni was originally the prince of the ancient Indian kingdom of Kapilava, almost a native of the Spring and Autumn Period of China.
Because he traveled to the people, he saw the thin old man, the dying patient and the lonely child, and suddenly realized that life was short, life was impermanent, even if he could live to a hundred years of wealth and wealth, looking back on everything, it was nothing more than a passing cloud and a fleeting moment.
Therefore, the prince gave up his throne, resolutely became a monk, and practiced asceticism in the snowy mountains for six years, eating only one hemp and one wheat a day, hungry beyond human form, and finally realized that asceticism was not the method of liberation, so he changed to begging for food.
On the eighth day of the first lunar month, the prince accepted the rice porridge made by the shepherd girl Shansheng with mellow milk, and when he took a look at it, a ruixiang appeared on the porridge, and a fairy said: "Whoever eats this porridge will have the supreme bodhi." ”
The prince happily ate the milk porridge, and his physical strength quickly recovered, so he sat down under the Bodhi tree and made a vow to attain the six miraculous powers such as fate and heavenly eye.
The demon king Bo Xun was terrified and sent the demon kings to intimidate him, but instead he failed, and sent three beautiful daughters to seduce the prince, but to no avail.
Eventually, on the morning of the seventh day, the prince saw the rising sun, and thus attained enlightenment and became a Buddha.
It is said that the shepherd girl Shansheng boiled milk porridge for Shakyamuni, added five kinds of miscellaneous rice, plus some red dates, walnuts, which may be the origin of the earliest "Lapa Porridge", and now, many monasteries on the day of Lapa Ba, in order to commemorate the Buddha's enlightenment day, will also boil "Lapa Porridge", with pilgrims and monks from all over the world to share delicious food, drive away the epidemic and welcome spring.
Another legend is related to Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ancestor of the Ming Dynasty.
Zhu Yuanzhang was a poor boy and was sent to the landlord's house to herd cattle, but one day, the leg of a calf was caught in a stone crack and was injured, so that when he returned, he would be whipped and confined by his master.
The clever Zhu Yuanzhang consulted with his partners Xu Da and Tang Heyi, and he would be punished anyway, simply slaughtering the cattle and eating meat, and he could also relieve his hunger.
So they ate a delicious meal of beef and buried the cowhide, offal, and other things.
After Zhu Yuanzhang returned, he lied that the calf had fallen into the valley and could not be found.
The landlord did not believe it, sent a search, and soon found the buried cowhide.
Zhu Yuanzhang saw the situation and simply took all the blame alone, which made Xu Da, Tang He and others very moved.
However, the landlord, in a fit of rage, put Zhu Yuanzhang alone in the firewood room, and did not give him food, so he wanted to starve him alive to make an example.
After three days of hunger, Zhu Yuanzhang was really a little unbearable, it was the eighth day of the first lunar month, the north wind was howling outside, the firewood room only had a pot and half a tank of water, and Zhu Yuanzhang, who was cold and hungry, could only pray to the heavens and pray for something to eat.
Coincidentally, during the prayer, Zhu Yuanzhang accidentally found a hidden rat hole in the corner of the wall, and two rats were quietly carrying firewood and grass into the cave because the weather was too cold.
Zhu Yuanzhang secretly thought that the rat knew how to move firewood into the hole, and he must also know how to steal grain from it, and in order to survive, he could only attack the rat hole.
Thinking of this, Zhu Yuanzhang found a long shovel, reached into the rat hole, and sure enough, some japonica rice, red beans and other messy grains were planed out from it.
He washed the grain, put it in a pot, boiled the fire and added water to make porridge, and finally spent this terrible night.
The next day, Xu Da and the others saw the opportunity, pried open the chai gate, and let Zhu Yuanzhang go, after which he entered the Huangjue Temple.
Many years later, Zhu Yuanzhang, who became the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, looked back at the past with the generals Xu Da, Tang He and others at the celebration banquet, and could not help but sigh, so he decreed that the eighth day of the first lunar month of the year was set as "Lapa Eight Festival", and on this day the people needed to make mixed grain porridge and gave the name "Lapa Porridge"!
There is also a kind of origin, according to legend, "Laba Porridge" is to commemorate the anti-Jin hero Yue Fei.
Yue Fei led the "Yue Family Army" to fight back the Jin Army, chased all the way to Zhu Xian Town, and saw that he was about to recover his homeland and was finished.
At this time, due to being far away from the south, the Song army could not receive food and grass for a while, and it was about to have a final decisive battle with the Jin army. Yue Fei couldn't help but frown.
It was the cold winter of the ninth month, and the people of Henan eagerly hoped that Yue Fei would drive away the Jin soldiers as soon as possible and live and work in peace and contentment, and when they heard that the Yue family army was short of grain, every family sent the little rice left for the New Year into Yue Fei's military camp, and soon it was piled up into a hill.
Touched by this Yue Junye was full of tears, at the moment people boiled the miscellaneous rice sent by the people into a large pot of porridge, distributed a full meal to everyone, and then ordered the whole army to quickly attack the Jin army, the result was a big victory, the army and the people embraced each other with great joy! This day happens to be the eighth day of the first month of the twelfth month of the lunar calendar.
However, Yue Fei was soon recalled to Lin'an by Zhao Shuo and Qin Junjun of the Huihe faction and killed on charges of "false accusations".
When the news spread back to the north, the people could not help but shed tears, in order to commemorate Yue Fei's loyalty and righteousness, to resist foreign insults, people have since then every day on the eighth day of the first lunar month, they will mix porridge with mixed grains and beans and fruits, thus gradually forming the custom of drinking "Lapa Porridge".