The history of Tomb-Sweeping Day
Tomb-Sweeping Day, known as the "rainy season", also known as Youth Day, is at the turn of mid-spring and late spring, that is, 108 days after the winter solstice. It is a traditional festival in China, and it is also one of the most important sacrificial festivals. This is the day to worship ancestors and sweep graves. Speaking of Tomb-Sweeping Day, the first thing to say is the story of Jie tui.
During the Spring and Autumn Period 2,600 years ago, Li Ji, the favorite of the Duke of Jin, plotted against the prince in order to let his son inherit the throne, and Shen Sheng was forced to commit suicide. Shen Sheng's younger brother Ji Chonger went into exile to escape the scourge. During his exile, Ji Chonger suffered humiliation. The courtiers who went to war with him left him one after another, looking for their own way out. There are only a few loyal people who have been following him, one of whom is called meson push.
According to "History of Han Poetry", one year Ji Chonger and his party fled to Weiguo, and a follower named Clue stole all the grain of Ji Chonger and fled into the mountains. Ji Chonger has no food and is starving. When begging from farmers in China, they didn't come for rice, but were teased by farmers for using clods as rice. Later, Ji Chonger fainted from hunger. In order to keep Ji Chonger alive, Jiezitui pushed him into the ravine, cut a piece of meat from his thigh and cooked it with the picked wild vegetables to give Ji Chonger a soup. When Ji Chonger recovered from eating and learned that it was meson pushing the meat on his leg, Ji Chonger was greatly moved and claimed that he would become a king one day and should repay meson pushing well. Nineteen years later, Ji Chonger returned to the State of Jin after many hardships and became a monarch. He is Jin Wengong, one of the famous five tyrants in the history of China.
After Jin Wengong took office, he rewarded the officials who shared his joys and sorrows with great splendor, but forgot to recommend them. Someone defended meson in front of Jin Wengong. Jin Wengong suddenly remembered the old story of meson cutting shares for himself, and felt guilty. He immediately sent someone to ask meson to go to court and reward him as an official. However, after several trips, the meson could not be pushed. Jin Wengong had to answer the door himself. However, when Jin Wengong came to the meson pusher's house, he saw that the door was closed. Jiezitui didn't want to see him, and had already been hiding in Mianshan (now southeast of Jiexiu County, Shanxi Province) behind his mother's back.
Jin Wengong asked his body guard to search Mianshan, but there was still no meson to push the mother and son. So, someone had a bad idea, saying, it is better to set fire to Yamakaji on three sides, leaving one side, and the meson will come out on its own after the fire. Jin Wengong ordered the promotion of Yamakaji. Unexpectedly, the fire burned for three days and nights. After the fire was put out, the meson was not pushed out after all. Jin Wengong led the people up the mountain and saw the mother and son holding a charred willow tree, dead. Jin Wengong wept bitterly at the body of meson push, and suddenly found that meson push's back was blocked by a willow hole, and there seemed to be something in the hole. Jin Wengong took it out and saw that it was a skirt, but it was engraved with a blood poem:
I hope your master is always clear.
It is better to be a ghost than to accompany you as an exhorter.
If your master has me in his heart, remember that I often reflect.
I have a clear conscience in Jiuquan, diligent and honest.
Jin Wengong was moved to tears, sobbing and putting the bloody book in his sleeve. Then Jin Wengong sent someone to bury meson tui and his mother under the charred willow tree. To commemorate Jiexiu, Jin Wengong ordered Mianshan to be changed to Jiexiu Mountain, and an ancestral temple was built on the mountain, and the day when Yamakaji was released was designated as the Cold Food Festival, telling the whole country that it is forbidden to set off fireworks and firecrackers on this day every year and only eat cold food.
When he left, Jin Wengong personally cut down a charred willow and made a pair of clogs in the palace. He looked at it every day and sighed, "What a pity." The "first step" is the name of ancient people's subordinates respecting each other between superiors or peers, from which the legend comes.
The following year, Jin Wengong led his ministers to pay homage and express their condolences on foot in plain clothes. Walking to the grave, I saw the dead old willow tree resurrected, with thousands of green branches dancing in the wind. Jin Wengong looked at the resurrected old willow tree and seemed to see the meson push. He walked respectfully to the willow, lovingly pinched off a willow branch, braided it into a circle and put it on his head. After the sacrificial ceremony, Jin Wengong named the resurrected old willow "Qingming Willow" and named the sacrificial day of meson tui as Tomb-Sweeping Day.
Tomb-Sweeping Day propaganda slogan
Civilized Sacrifice Sweeping, Doing Our Little to Create a Landscape Ecological Garden City
Break the old rules and customs and establish a new civilized style.
Make persistent efforts, strive for the first place and strive for a national civilized unit.
During the Qingming Festival, it rained in succession, and bunches of flowers paid homage to their old friends.
Why use superstitious burning paper? Civilized sacrifices to comfort old friends.
Care for the living, care for the dead and care for life.
Self-improvement, reform and innovation, service first, striving for first-class
Honest service, remolding morality, deepening funeral reform and comprehensively promoting ecological funeral
Give flowers to the dead, beautiful you, me and him.
Carry out activities to change trees and plastics, and then build a new civilized style.
What does Tomb-Sweeping Day eat?
1, Green jiaozi
Green dumplings have always been a custom in Jiangnan area, but for green dumplings, it is actually to mash a "wheat straw" plant to make juice, and then make dumplings with glutinous rice, while the stuffing of dumplings is actually made of a very delicate sugar bean paste, which is also to slowly put them around in a cage, and then you can eat them.
2. Aizan
Has everyone eaten mugwort? There is an old saying in Hakka that "Tomb-Sweeping Day eats mugs before and after, so it is not easy to get sick all the year round", so during his stay in Tomb-Sweeping Day, Hakka people have the habit of eating mugs, which is also a traditional snack, and the method of making mugs is very particular.
3. Warm mushroom bag
In Taining, Tomb-Sweeping Day always eats "warm mushroom buns", so warm mushroom buns have become a traditional snack in Tomb-Sweeping Day, Taining, and there are some differences in making warm mushroom buns. The difference lies in the north and south, the north is like a crescent moon and the south is like a full moon.
4. embarrassing
In the north and south of China, there is a custom of eating "pot", which is a kind of fried food and is also very popular with children. For Guo, it always has a very crisp and delicate shape, which will be great in both the north and the south.
5. Qingming rice
While in Tomb-Sweeping Day, everyone will collect some herbs that can be used in the wild and use them to make "Qingming rice", which has always been one of the important food customs in Qingming food, which is very healthy for people.
6, jujube cake
Jujube cake is actually a kind of cake, which is actually a food custom made to commemorate a noble quality advocated by meson tui. But in the north, people are used to turning jujube cakes into flying swallows and stringing some wicker on the door to make cold food. Moreover, spring health preservation can actually have a certain effect, which can increase the function of the spleen.
Tomb-Sweeping Day's composition
No years are calm, but someone bears a heavy burden for you.
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A promising nation cannot live without heroes; A promising country cannot live without pioneers. Heroes, in every era, are shining. On this Qingming occasion, let us follow the footsteps of history, remember the martyrs and pay tribute to the heroes.
Throughout the ages, eight famines have opened the picture of history. In the long history of 5,000 years, China holds its head high and stands tall in the world. It is the dedication and efforts of countless heroes that have brought us a peaceful and beautiful life and created China, which is proud of China people and attracts worldwide attention. Looking back at history, in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, which is United to defend the country, countless soldiers shed their blood and sacrificed their precious lives; In the peaceful era of reform and opening up, countless researchers fought in the front line, unknown, and dedicated to the country and the people. They are national heroes.
In ancient times, there were heroes fighting bloody battles, but now there are angels fighting the epidemic. At the beginning of 2020, the epidemic haze enveloped the land of China, and countless heroes went against the wind. They made an oath of "no return, no matter life or death" and did not hesitate to write their names on the invitation letter. They resolutely went, not afraid of life and death. Academician Zhong Nanshan, who was over eighty years old, warned Chinese people not to go to the epidemic area, but he took the high-speed train to Wuhan without hesitation. In this epidemic, tens of thousands of angels in white struggled in the forefront of the epidemic. Regardless of the risk of infection, they take care of patients every day and treat them as relatives. They gave up the reunion with their relatives at home and fought side by side with their colleagues at work, leaving their families behind for everyone. They are the heroes of the people.
"I'm sorry to know you this way." This is what I want to say to the fire fighters who died in the fire. 2065438+At the end of March 2009, a fire broke out in Liangshan, Sichuan, and hundreds of fire fighters rushed to the fire site at the first time. Unfortunately, in the fire fighting operation, affected by the sudden change of wind direction, the forest caught fire, killing 27 fire fighters and 3 local officials. The youngest of them is only 20 years old. They were of the same age and chose the most dangerous occupation. The fire has made the people of the whole country sad, and the country will be four years old. However, a year later, on March 30th, the disaster came uninvited, and a fire broke out again in Xichang, Liangshan, causing 19 firefighters to die. Young fire fighters, for the sacred mission, explained the value of life with youth and wrote an earth-shattering heroic hymn. They are heroes that everyone respects.
Mr. Lu Xun once said; "Since ancient times, we have people who work hard, people who work hard, people who plead for the people, and people who sacrifice their lives for the law. They are the backbone of China. " Another year of Qingming, mourning for the heroes. Tomb-Sweeping Day not only remembered the passing of life, but also continued his heroic spirit. May we learn from history, follow the footsteps of martyrs and forge ahead with the spirit of Do not forget your initiative mind.