When the exact news that a group of guys claiming to be from the Sun and Moon Alliance came out of Taihu Lake, it was already the eighth day of the lunar month. Compared with the planned, organized, and premeditated actions of the Heavenly Dao Alliance, the things done by the Sun and Moon Alliance have too much immediacy, which naturally makes people see the difference between the two.

If the appearance of the Heavenly Dao Alliance is eye-catching, then the appearance of the Sun and Moon Alliance really makes the people in the south of the Yangtze River see hope and a way out.

However, this doesn't seem to be Huang Dalang's, early in the morning he took his concubine Wan Chunnu to follow his father and mother to the old shop to help, and he was full of energy to have a big fight with the three monasteries in Huangzhou.

The eighth day of the lunar month is also the wax day, and the so-called wax day is also the custom of choosing the wax day to sacrifice to the gods in the wax month to repay the ancestors. However, the day of the Han and Wei dynasties was not set on the eighth day of the twelfth month. When it came to the Northern and Southern Dynasties, it was set on this day. In the "Chronicles of the Year of Chu": "December 8 is the day of wax, the proverb 'the drum sounds, the spring grass is born', and the villagers beat the thin waist drum and wear the beard, and make King Kong Lux to chase away the epidemic." ”

However, with the popularization of Buddhism, the monks also said that the eighth day of the first month of December was the day of the Buddha's enlightenment, so they carelessly changed the "Lap Day" into "Laba", and the original Chinese orthodox festival became a Buddhist religious festival in a blink of an eye, so that Huang Dalang, who learned about this matter through a strange dream, felt that it was necessary to let everyone know that what was to be drunk on this Lap Day was not the Western Buddhist Seven Treasure Porridge, but the Eight Treasures Porridge of Longan Lotus Seeds that was passed down from Chinese Taoism.

There is a cloud in "Tokyo Menghualu": on the eighth day of the first month of December, the major temples in the capital hold a bathing Buddha meeting, and send "Seven Treasures and Five Flavors Porridge" to the disciples, called "Laba Porridge", the people of the capital on this day each household also use a variety of fruit miscellaneous materials to cook porridge and eat, and every household in the alley gives Laba porridge to each other. "Qing Barnyard Banknotes" also said: "Laba porridge began in the Song Dynasty, on the eighth day of the twelfth month, the great temples of Tokyo were boiled into porridge with seven treasures and five flavors and glutinous rice, and they have been used to this day. ”

The reason why the porridge of the temple is called Qibao five-flavor porridge is that "seven" Buddhist auspicious number contains the meaning of "ascending to heaven"; "Bao" refers to dried fruits, such as red dates, lilies, lotus seeds, white fungus, preserved fruits, longan, walnut kernels, persimmons, raisins, etc.

Then the question came, according to Qimeng Huang Dalang found that the difference between this seven-treasure porridge and eight-treasure porridge seemed to be a kind of grain called peanuts, but he asked many farmers, but no one knew what kind of peanut rice it was. After thinking about it, he simply turned this treasure into a kind of white frost candy with a crystal clear color and a snow-white color that is whiter than green salt.

There are three larger temples inside and outside the city of Huangzhou, namely the Dinghui Temple in the city, the Chengtian Temple and the Anguo Temple outside the city, all of them have to give seven treasure porridge on this day, and if you want to go to the two temples of Chengtian and Anguo, you have to go to the south gate. Therefore, Huang Dalang also held back a bad smile on this day, placed five cauldrons at the entrance of Shihui Street to boil eight-treasure porridge, and also wrote a piece of "La Ri Theory" with more than 1,000 words, and pasted it on a billboard.

Huang Dalang followed Zhu Taozhi to be a Taoist child for six years, and he can only be regarded as a beginner in calligraphy, but the font he learned is alternative and new, the glyph is thin and straight, the horizontal drawing is closed with a hook, the vertical stroke is closed with a point, the skimming is like a dagger, the pen is like a cutting knife, and the vertical hook is slender, so this "Lari Theory" was posted out, it attracted the attention of many people, and many literate and literate people just read a few sentences and couldn't help but be fascinated.

"Lap Ri...... Dot...... The ancient rites of worship to the ancestors are also ...... Circle...... The Rite Month Order is said to be the moon of Mengdong, and the five rituals of the ancestors are also ...... Dot...... The customs of the Han Dynasty are also called the hunting of the waxers...... Dot...... Yantian hunted beasts to worship his ancestors...... Circle. ”

Under the kanban, a young fat man was shaking his head and reading, but there was a little fat man with a handful of hair next to him, but he pulled him and said: "Third Brother Bao, you just came late, Huang Dalang said that this point and circle do not need to be read, it is used to break sentences." ”

There was also a person who had just put his hair in a bun and was dressed in a student uniform of the Hongwen Museum, and smiled shyly: "Oops! Such a splendid article also made Cao Yanei moved, but if it was still read by Xiaosheng, how about Yanei just commenting? ”

The young fat man patted his stomach, stretched out his head and sniffed the fragrance of eight-treasure porridge wafting from the entrance of Shihui Street, and said, "It's easy to say!" It's up to you Wang Ruchu to read it, and I have my own reward after reading it! ”

The king nodded hurriedly and thanked him first, and then read it in a low voice: "The person who is a rite of ceremony began in Xia, became a system in business, and Zhou was a pawn." Zhou Jin pretended to kill Yu Yu's timing, and Gong Zhiqi persuaded Yu Huigong to say: Yu Bu is not tired, and in this trip, Jin is not even more important. Cao Yanei, this Spring and Autumn Period Jin Kingdom wants to destroy ......"

"Read on! When I don't know what to do? Cao Yanei rolled his eyes, and scolded: "Read quickly! Otherwise, when I destroy you, you won't have to celebrate this Wax Festival! ”

In fact, Wang Ruchu didn't understand what this sentence meant, just listened to an old student's explanation, so he wanted to show off in front of Cao Abao, this so-called "Yu Bu La" is also an allusion to the fact that as long as the Jin State can destroy the Yu State, it will definitely destroy the Yu State by the way, so the Yu State will no longer have to celebrate the Lunar Festival in the future.

Listening to Cao Abao's scolding, Wang Ruchu shuddered, he really didn't expect that Cao Yanei, who had been professionally beaten in the school every day for many years, actually knew the allusions in these words, but he didn't dare to show off anymore, so he could only continue to read: ""Historical Records of the Qin Family" is also said to be the twelfth year of Hui Wenjun, the first wax. Qin Benqiang Hu, it can be seen that Hui Wenjun regarded Lap as Zhengshuo! Then, Xiang Wang was ill, acquiescing in the people to kill cattle and pray, Langzhong Yan and Gongsun Yan saw it, and said: When it is not a social la, Xi suicide cow and ancestral society? ”

The meaning of these last two sentences, one of them is that the Qin State was regarded as a barbaric country in the Spring and Autumn Period, and the Qianghu are also the Qiang and Hu peoples, and these alien races were originally no more than the local festival of the Central Plains, but in the twelfth year of King Qin Hui, the Lapi Festival began. Later, in the era of King Qin Xiang, when he was sick, the people prayed for him, and after he recovered from his illness, the ministers questioned him, thinking that it was a bad act to apply the specifications of the wax sacrifice to other occasions casually.

Wang Ruchu paused, saw Cao Abao closed his eyes and shook his head in appreciation, and he didn't dare to explain, so he continued to read: "Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Xingxing Hedong, making the world drunk for five days, five days, and Bila also!" …… To the Northern Zhou Dynasty retro ceremony, Sui Kaihuang four years in November edict said: the ancient name of the wax, pick also. Take the new so hand over its October wax stop, can December for wax. …… Therefore, it can be seen that Lap Japan is the beginning of my Chinese festival, and people today do not know why, and they all believe that it is the period of the Buddha's birthday, how sad! ”

After reading this paragraph, Wang Ruchu wiped his sweat, and saw that Cao Abao was still satisfied, but he still couldn't help but speak: "Yanei, this second half is wonderful, and when today's Lari theory was posted, it almost started." Now many old gentlemen and monks who believe in Buddhism in the city have gone home to check the books, saying that they will admit their mistakes when they find it, but if they can't find it, they will find Huang Dalang to go to the yamen theory. ”

Cao Abao glared at Wang Ruchu and shouted, "Noise! Read on! ”

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Hehe! Today's Laba, when you drink porridge, please remember that this Laba Festival is my Chinese orthodox ancient festival, not a religious festival!