试题出自试卷《中央美术学院2016年考博英语真题》

The Laba Festival is a traditional Chinese holiday celebrated on the eighth day of the twelfth month of the lunar Chinese calendar. "La" is the name given to the 12th lunar month and 8 is pronounced as "ba" in Chinese, which translated is "Laba." There are several legends about the origin of this festivity and we could not tell which one is true. But what we know today is that this festival started as a sacrificial offering to ancestors. It was also a time for the ancient Chinese to pray to heaven and earth that there would be a bountiful harvest. Traditionally, the Laba rice porridge is the most important element of the festival. The porridge must be boiled for many hours and then offered as a sacrifice to the ancestors.