Unit 1 Festivals and Celebrations 课外拓展中华传统节日腊八节课件-2021-2022学年高中英语人教版（2019）必修第三册

Laba Festival 1 1. Origin 2. Legend 3. Laba Porridge 4. Laba Garlic C O N T E N T S 2 1. Origin 3 In ancient times, wax referred to the activities of offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors in winter after harvest. Because most of these sacrificial activities are held in December, December is called the wax month. There was no definite date for the initial wax offering. Some say it is a wax offering to eight gods. The eighth day of the twelfth lunar month became a festival in later generations. 4 Since the pre Qin Dynasty, the Laba Festival has been used to offer sacrifices to ancestors and gods and pray for a good harvest and good luck. In addition to the activities of offering sacrifices to ancestors and gods, people also expel epidemic diseases. 5 2. Legend 6 Sakyamuni, the founder of Buddhism, practiced meditation in the mountains for six years. He was so skinny and hungry that he wanted to give up asceticism. Then he met a shepherdess and sent him chyle. After eating, he sat cross legged under the bodhi tree and became a Buddha on the eighth day of December. To commemorate the "Becoming Buddha Festival" . 7 When Qin Shihuang built the Great Wall, migrant workers from all over the world came under orders. They could not go home for many years, and their food was sent by their families. Some migrant workers, whose homes are separated by thousands of mountains and rivers, can not deliver food, resulting in many migrant workers starving to death at the construction site of the Great Wall. 8 One year, on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, the migrant workers without food accumulated several handfuls of miscellaneous grains, boiled them into porridge in a pot, drank a bowl each, and finally starved to death under the Great Wall. In order to mourn the migrant workers who died of starvation at the construction site of the Great Wall, people eat "Laba porridge" on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month every year. 9 Laba Festival comes from people