The saying that Laba is cool.

The proverb of cold weather in Laba is as follows:

1, wheat covers three layers in winter and sleeps with steamed bread next year.

2. Pull up Bala and freeze your chin.

3, the winter solstice is the ninth day, and the cuffs are hidden in both hands.

4, the first 929 didn't make a move when meeting, and the third 949 was shivering with cold.

5, Sanjiu cold, three volts hot.

6, winter solstice to Laba, neither cold nor afraid.

Interpretation of Laba Festival:

Laba Festival is the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, also known as "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.