The birthplace of the Cold Food Festival is Mianshan, Jiexiu, Shanxi, which has a history of 2640 years. According to the definition of "Cold Food Festival" in Ci Yuan and Ci Hai, in the Spring and Autumn Period, Jie Zhitui went through hardships, assisted Zhong Er, the son of Jin Dynasty, to restore the country and lived in seclusion in Mianshan, Jiexiu. Forcing him out of the burnt mountain, Zi pushed the mother and son out of sight and burned us. In order to mourn him, Jin Wengong ordered that fire and cold food should be banned on the anniversary of his death (after the winter of November 150), thus forming a cold food festival.
The Cold Food Festival originated from the record of the burning of Mianshan in Jiexiu, which was first seen in Huan Tan's new volume Xi Li Xi Shi, and then in the Book of the Later Han Dynasty, the Book of the Later Han Dynasty, the Biography of Zhou Ju, the Criminal Order of Cao Caoming, the Book of Jin, the Biography of Xerox, and Li Daoyuan's Notes on Water Mirror Fen.
Historically, the activities of the Cold Food Festival were mainly promoted by memorial institutions to ban smoking and fasting, and gradually evolved into ancestor worship. The concept of loyalty, filial piety and honesty contained in it fully conforms to the traditional moral core of China's ancient countries' need for loyalty and filial piety, and has become an important carrier of family harmony and social stability.
In modern times, the Cold Food Festival has become an important form of remembering revolutionary martyrs and educating young people. At the same time, during the Cold Food Festival, compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan and overseas Chinese returned to their hometowns to pay homage to their ancestors, which became an important festival to inherit the Chinese nation's ancestral culture and reflect national identity and cohesion.
The ancient ancestors insisted on banning smoking and fasting at the Cold Food Festival, expressing their immortal memory of the ancient sages. There are dozens of cold drinks, most of which are meaningful. For example, there is a saying in Jiexiu custom that "snakes and rabbits will be rich", which means that the country is expected to enrich the people and strengthen the country; At the expense of eating noodles, Jiexiu dialect is to educate future generations to "miss" and not forget to introduce the public and the virtuous. The Cold Food Festival symbolizes the pursuit of political clarity.