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People who work in townships and towns know that when they enter the lunar month, there is basically nothing to do, and most of the general cadres have begun to be busy purchasing New Year's goods, and the township leaders have begun to pay New Year's greetings to the superior leaders in advance and the relevant departments that often deal with them; It's like going to work, you can go or not, everyone is like this, you are used to it, even if you don't go to work, no one will say. People who go to work are also in groups around the office to bake the fire and chat, or a few people meet to find a place to play mahjong and mix time.

This day is Wednesday, the 23rd day of the first month, the eighth day of the lunar month, Yue Haohan just went to the headquarters office in the morning to burn the charcoal, Deng Xuanfa's lover Zhang Peiling went to the headquarters office, and said to Yue Haohan, Haohan, today is Laba Festival, you go to the house at noon to eat, go to drink Laba porridge.

Laba porridge is also called "Qibao five-flavor porridge". The history of drinking Laba porridge in China has been more than 1,000 years, and it first began in the Song Dynasty. On the eighth day of the lunar month, whether it is the imperial court, the government, the temple or the homes of the Li people, they have to make Laba porridge. In the Qing Dynasty, the custom of drinking laba porridge was even more popular. In the imperial court, the emperor, empress, and prince would give Laba porridge to the ministers of civil and military affairs and the maids of the palace, and distribute rice and fruits to various monasteries for the monks to eat. In the folk, every household also has to make Laba porridge and worship their ancestors; At the same time, the family gathers together to eat and give gifts to relatives and friends.

The eighth day of the lunar month, commonly known as the "Laba Festival", since ancient times in China, the day of the Laba Festival is used to sacrifice ancestors and gods, praying for a good harvest and auspiciousness. Sacrifices include gods such as door gods, household gods, house gods, stove gods, and well gods. After the Laba Festival, the flavor of the New Year gradually became stronger.

There are many folk legends about the Laba Festival, the most widespread legend is that the founder of Buddhism Shakyamuni was the son of the king of pure rice in the northern part of ancient India, he saw that all beings were suffering from birth, old age, sickness and death, and was dissatisfied with the theocratic rule of Brahmanism at that time, gave up the throne, became a monk, and on the eighth day of the lunar month, he became a Buddha under the Bodhi tree.

Legend has it that more than 2,500 years ago, before Shakyamuni became a Buddha, he gave up his position and became a monk, and after six years of penance and asceticism, and even eclipsed one hemp and one wheat, his body gradually became extremely thin. Finally, I realized that people in the world are chasing material desires, obsessed with the sound of dogs and horses, and over-enjoying themselves, although they cannot achieve liberation; Blindly attaching oneself to austerity only causes physical suffering, and it also increases one's attachment to one's body, and there is no way to attain enlightenment. Only by abandoning the two sides of bitterness and happiness can we enter the Bodhi road of enlightenment. So, he readjusted his practice, got up from his ascetic seat, and walked down the Nilian River, so that the water that had been pure for many years washed away the impurities on his body.

There were two cowherding women by the Nilian River, one Nanda and the other Polo, and Su Rili saw Shakyamuni so devout and ascetic, and her heart was very moved and admired. At this time, seeing that Shakyamuni had already accepted the vow, he was busy choosing a fat cow, bathing in the river, squeezing milk, steaming it into chyle, filling a bowl, holding it in front of him, and offering it.

Shakyamuni accepted the offering and made a vow: "Eat and drink today, and you will be able to inflate your strength, so as to preserve your wisdom and longevity, so as to save all sentient beings." He immediately took it. Since then, Shakyamuni has been offered chyle by shepherdesherds every day. After a month, when he had regained his former strength and strength, he went to bathe and wash in the Nilian River, and felt even more cool and radiant. After that, he came to the place known as Bodh Gaya, and sat on the vajra seat under a tall and lush Biboro tree, which is often called the Bodhi tree, and made a vow: "If I do not attain the Buddha fruit of enlightenment, I would rather break this body than I will never be able to sit here!" ”

In this way, Shakyamuni sat under the Bodhi tree for forty-eight days, until the seventh day of the lunar month. That night, the sky was clear and the wind was smooth. Shakyamuni sat on the vajra throne and manifested various meditation realms, contemplating the immeasurable worlds of the ten directions and all things in the past, present and future lives, and gaining insight into the cause and effect of the three worlds. In the early morning of the eighth day of the lunar month, the star appeared in the sky, and he suddenly realized that he had attained the supreme path and became a Buddha who was fully enlightened.

Since then, the eighth day of the lunar month, the day of the enlightenment of the Buddha Shakyamuni, has become a grand and solemn anniversary of Buddhism, and the Laba Festival has come from this.

The Buddhist scriptures say that when Shakyamuni became a Buddha, the earth shook, all the heavens, gods and people praised together, and the many sufferings of the three realms of hell, hungry ghosts, and beasts rested for a while, and the heavenly drums sounded in unison, making a wonderful sound, and the heavenly rain mandala flowers, manshusha flowers, golden flowers, silver flowers, glazed flowers, treasure flowers, seven treasure lotus, etc. Therefore, the Buddhist community attaches great importance to the Laba Festival.

It is said that when Zhu Yuanzhang was suffering in prison, it was a cold day, and Zhu Yuanzhang, who was cold and hungry, actually found some red beans, rice, red dates and other seven or eight kinds of grains from the mouse hole in the prison. Zhu Yuanzhang boiled these things into porridge, because it was the eighth day of the lunar month, Zhu Yuanzhang said that this pot of multigrain porridge is Laba porridge. Enjoyed a delicious meal.

Later, Zhu Yuanzhang pacified the world, sat in the north and faced the south to become the emperor, in order to commemorate the hard and special day in the prison, he issued an order, set this day as the Laba Festival, and officially named the multigrain porridge he ate that day Laba porridge.

For the Laba Festival, in the Central Plains, there is also a legend related to the loyal minister Yue Fei, saying that in that year, Yue Fei led the troops to resist Jin in Zhuxian Town, it was the ninth severe winter, the Yue family army was poor in food and clothing, starvation and cold, the people sent porridge one after another, and the Yue family army had a full meal of the "thousand family porridge" sent by the people, and the result was a big victory. This day is the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. After Yue Fei's death, in order to commemorate him, the people cooked porridge with mixed grains and beans and fruits on the eighth day of the lunar month, which finally became a custom.

In the folk of Jiangyang County, for the origin of the Laba Festival, there is another version of the legend, according to legend, there is a pair of old couples are very good at living, hard-working, thrifty, save a lot of business, but the baby son is not angry, marrying a daughter-in-law is not virtuous, soon lost the family business, to the eighth day of the lunar month, the two of them are frozen and hungry, fortunately, there are villagers, neighbors to help, boiled a pot of rice, noodles, beans, vegetables and other mixed together "heterozygous porridge". Meaning: "Eat a meal of mixed porridge and remember the lesson." This porridge made the little couple finally get rid of their bad habits, walk on the right path, and rely on diligent labor to run the family, and their lives are getting better day by day. The popular folk custom of eating porridge in Laba is inherited in order to warn future generations with this lesson.

Zhang Peiling roasted charcoal fire in the headquarters office, chatted with Yue Haohan for a while, and saw Miao Xiaoqin coming in, Zhang Peiling greeted Miao Xiaoqin and said, Xiaoqin, it's so cold, are you still coming to work today?

Miao Xiaoqin pulled over a stool, sat down by the brazier, stretched out his hand to roast on the fire, and said, there is nothing else to do when he is idle anyway, the command has bought so much charcoal, and it is good to come over to roast the fire and chat.

Zhang Peiling sighed and said, it's better for your bridge construction headquarters, there is charcoal to roast, which is like our family planning service station, cold. It turned out that before Zhu Guofu had an accident, he also bought us some charcoal grilling from the superbirth fine, but when he had an accident, the new leader in charge did not come, and no one in our departments was in charge, and they have been herding sheep for more than a month.

Miao Xiaoqin said: I have heard that the new deputy secretary has been decided, and Lin Ping, a member of the propaganda committee in the township, has been promoted to deputy secretary this time, and one of the propaganda committee members has been sent from the propaganda department of the county party committee. It seems that in the next few days, someone from the county will come to announce.

Zhang Peiling roasted her hands, glanced at Miao Xiaoqin, and said, I first heard that the township didn't report to the county party committee and let Zhu Yujun, a member of the organization committee, be the deputy secretary, how did he become a member of the Lin Committee?

Miao Xiaoqin looked at Zhang Peiling and said, I know the reason inside, it turns out that there are two people reported by the township, Zhu Yujun, a member of the organization committee, and Wu Taowu, director of the Party and Government Office. I heard that when the Standing Committee of the county party committee was studying, County Magistrate Wang strongly advocated that Director Wu Tao and Wu should be appointed deputy secretary, and Fang Guoqiang, the head of the organization department, insisted on promoting Zhu Yujun, a member of the organization committee, and the two of them could not hold each other; In the end, Chen Guoyun, deputy secretary of the county party committee in charge of the party and the masses, spoke, he said that he would vigorously train female cadres, and then he temporarily proposed to promote member Lin Pinglin.

Miao Xiaoqin's words should have been heard from Wu Youde, and this must be how things have happened, Yue Haohan thought to himself, after Lin Ping was promoted to deputy secretary of the township party committee, who would the propaganda committee send over in the county?

Just when Yue Haohan was thinking about it, Zhang Peiling asked Miao Xiaoqin and said, Xiaoqin, you are a well-informed person, there is a stir in our Wulong Township, there is nothing you don't know, then do you know who the propaganda committee sent?

Zhang Peiling brought a high hat to Miao Xiaoqin, which made Miao Xiaoqin's face smile, Miao Xiaoqin straightened up, and said, The propaganda committee heard that it was a young man from the Propaganda Department, and he was also a woman, as if his surname was Ma.

The three of them were cooking on the fire in the headquarters office and chatting, and before they knew it, it was almost noon, Zhang Peiling got up to say goodbye and prepare to go home to cook, Yue Haohan also got up and sent Zhang Peiling out of the headquarters office.

Returning to the office, Yue Haohan saw two black Santana sedans through the back window, drove into the township government compound, and slowly stopped.

Yue Haohan and Miao Xiaoqin walked to the window and looked into the courtyard, the first car to get down was Fang Guoqiang, director of the Organization Department of the county party committee, Wu Youde and his party shook hands with Fang Guoqiang and exchanged a few words; went to the second car, and the first person in the second car was Ma Yufei from the Propaganda Department's office, and then Luo Yi, the Minister of Propaganda, also came down from behind.

In the courtyard, a group of people from Wulong Township shook hands with Fang Guoqiang and Luo Yi very enthusiastically, stood there greeting, and laughed for a while, and everyone walked towards the township government building under the guidance of Wu Youde and He Anqing.

Yue Haohan and Miao Xiaoqin turned back to the brazier from the window and sat down to continue to roast the fire, and after a while, Huang Caifeng of the party and government office twisted his waist and came over, and stood by the brazier after entering the door, and said to Yue Haohan and Miao Xiaoqin, Xiaoyue, Miao Accountant, Director Wu asked me to inform you that at three o'clock in the afternoon, all the cadres of the organs at home will go to the conference room on the fifth floor on time for a meeting, and the Organization Department of the county party committee will announce the appointment documents.

After Huang Caifeng informed the two, Miao Xiaoqin asked, Caifeng, is it only the people who work in our government offices to participate?

Huang Caifeng said that it was a meeting, and the secretaries and directors of the administrative districts, the secretaries and directors of the villages, and the responsible persons of the township units all attended the meeting.

After Huang Caifeng left, when it was time to get off work, Yue Haohan did not go back to his own room at the agricultural technology station, but went directly to Deng Xuanfa's house, the family courtyard of the township government, and entered the small courtyard of Deng Xuanfa's family, and saw Deng Xuanfa's son Deng Zhifei, who was burning charcoal in the yard, and saw Yue Haohan coming in, Deng Zhifei stood up from the brazier and said, Brother Haohan, you are here.

Yue Haohan smiled, touched Deng Zhifei's head, and said, Zhifei, are you on vacation?

Deng Zhifei said, let's release it, starting today, but I will have to go to the school next week to get the report card.

Yue Haohan talked to Deng Zhifei, picked up the charcoal fire that Deng Zhifei had just lit, went to the living room, put the brazier down, Zhang Peiling tied an apron around her waist, came from the kitchen, and said, Haohan, at noon, your Uncle Deng wants to accompany Minister Fang and Minister Luo from the county, and there are a few of us at home at noon, Shirley called back yesterday and said that the county No. 1 Middle School is also on holiday today, and it is estimated that he will come back in a while, and when Shirley comes back, we will have dinner.

After Zhang Peiling finished speaking, she continued to work in the kitchen, and in the living room, Deng Zhifei poured a cup of tea for Yue Haohan, handed it to Yue Haohan, and said, Brother Haohan, I can account for the top five in the grade in the final exam, do you believe it?

Yue Haohan smiled and said, Zhifei, you are so smart, usually play less for a while, I estimate that the first place is yours, but the top five in the grade are also quite good. You have to summarize the study methods well, and learn more from your sister.

Yue Haohan was drinking tea and talking to Deng Zhifei, at this time, he saw Deng Xueli wearing a red down jacket, her cheeks were red from the cold, and she was carrying a bag in her hand, and came back; Yue Haohan and Deng Zhifei got up together and went to the courtyard to meet Deng Xueli, Deng Zhifei grabbed the front, took the bag in Deng Xueli's hand, and asked, sister, why are you also on vacation so early?

Deng Xueli did not immediately answer Deng Zhifei's words, raised her eyes to look at Yue Haohan, and said with a smile, Brother Haohan is good! After saying hello to Yue Haohan, he said to Deng Zhifei that the first year of high school had an earlier holiday, and the second and third years of high school were still making up classes.

Yue Haohan was in the living room, chatting with Deng Xueli and Deng Zhifei about learning methods, and after a while, Zhang Peiling began to bring the dishes to the living room, Yue Haohan hurriedly put the dining table away, Zhang Peiling put down the dishes, and said, Haohan, at noon, I mainly drank laba porridge, and simply fried a few dishes, and you will drink a bowl of rice wine I made later.

After dinner, Yue Haohan played at Deng Xuanfa's house until almost three o'clock, then returned to the office, took a notebook, and went directly to the conference room on the fifth floor to attend the afternoon meeting.

At three o'clock, the meeting officially began, on the rostrum, Fang Guoqiang and Luo Yi sat side by side in the middle, Fang Guoqiang on the left, Luo Yi on the right, Wu Youde sat next to Fang Guoqiang, He Anqing sat next to Luo Yi, next to Wu Youde sat Li Jinjie, chief of the cadre section of the Organization Department, and next to He Anqing sat Zhang Wenqing, director of the Office of the Propaganda Department. The meeting was chaired by Wu Youde.

Look at the people are almost there, Wu Youde on the rostrum looked around the venue, knocked the microphone in front of him with his right hand, and the noisy conference room was suddenly quieter, Wu Youde opened his mouth and said, the people are almost there, now start the meeting, first of all, let us welcome the leaders of the Organization Department of the County Party Committee Fang and Minister Luo of the Propaganda Department to visit our Wulong Township to inspect and guide the work.

Wu Youde took the lead in applauding, and after the applause, Wu Youde announced, next, please ask Li Jinjie, section chief of the cadre section of the Organization Department, to read out the appointment document of the county party committee, everyone is welcome!

The applause fell, Li Jinjie took the document and read out that after the county party committee decided that Comrade Lin Ping was appointed deputy secretary of the Wulong Township Party Committee and no longer served as a propaganda member of the Wulong Township Party Committee; Comrade Ma Yufei, a cadre of the Propaganda Department, was transferred to the Wulong Township Party Committee and served as a member of the Propaganda Committee of the Wulong Township Party Committee. (The novel "Official Yi Tongdao" will have more fresh content on the official WeChat platform, and there will also be a 100% lottery gift for everyone!) Open WeChat now, click on the "+" sign in the upper right corner "Add Friends", search for the official account "ddxiaoshuo" and follow, hurry up! )