The Cold Food Festival is a traditional festival in China, after the summer solstice and one or two days before Tomb-Sweeping Day. When the first day of the day is a holiday, smoking is forbidden and only cold food is eaten. In the development of later generations, the customs of sweeping, climbing, swinging, cuju, crochet and cockfighting were gradually increased. The Cold Food Festival lasted for more than 2,000 years and was once called the largest folk festival in China.
According to historical records, the origin of the Cold Food Festival is that during the Spring and Autumn Period, Zhong Er, the son of the State of Jin, fled to other countries. He was in exile for 19 years, and the minister, Anta, always followed, never gave up, and even "cut off his shares". Zhong Er tried to become a famous gentleman "Jin Wengong".
But meson tui didn't want to make a fortune, so he lived in seclusion with his mother in Mianshan. Jin Wengong ordered the release of Yamakaji to force him to leave the mountain. Meson Tui was determined not to come out of the mountain and was eventually burned to death. Jin Wengong remembered his loyalty, buried him in Mianshan, built a shrine and a temple, and ordered the prohibition of cold food on the day of Jiexiu to express his grief. This is the origin of the "Cold Food Festival".
Festival features
The Cold Food Festival also has another name "one hundred and fifty", because the Cold Food Festival is after the winter solstice 105. A poem "New Fire" by Su Zhe in Song Dynasty: "Yesterday was one hundred and fifty, and many old people ate cold food." In Song Dynasty, Mei wrote "Yi Yun's sense of cold food and Li Sheren's trip": "one hundred and fifty days are rainy, and the clothes in the spring suburbs are wet."
Cold food and no fire put out the fire preserved in winter. When it comes to Qingming, it is necessary to drill wood for fire again. Wang Biao, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, once wrote: "A cold food will bring thousands of trees and snow, and a clear fire will bring out ten thousand cigarettes."
The Cold Food Festival originated from the burning of mesons in Mianshan, Jiexiu during the Spring and Autumn Period. Jin Wengong ordered a ban on fire and cold food on the anniversary of the child's death, and sent grief with cold food. By the time of the Tang Dynasty, a national statutory festival had been formed, and then it merged with Tomb-Sweeping Day, the earliest traditional festival in China.
From respecting the meson to carrying forward the political ambition of loyalty to the monarch and patriotism, retiring after success, being honest and clean, and not violating the filial piety of relatives, it has developed into an important festival that unites people's hearts, embodies the Chinese soul and reflects the ancestral culture of the Chinese nation. And form a series of cold foods such as glutinous rice and green rice.
During the Cold Food Festival, there are visits to grave-sweeping, no smoking, ancestor worship, cold food, willow insertion, outing, cuju, tree planting, swinging, flower viewing, cockfighting, banquet feeding and poetry reading. Many activities, such as banquets, flower viewing, cockfighting, chicken carving, pulling hooks (tug-of-war), drilling wood for fire, flying kites, shooting herbs, throwing pottery toys and so on. , greatly enriched the social life in ancient China.
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