Cold food festival, also known as "smoke-free festival", "cold food festival" and "Hundred Five Days Festival". One hundred and five days after the summer solstice, and one or two days before Tomb-Sweeping Day. Smoking is forbidden and only cold food is eaten on this day, so it is called "Cold Food Festival". In the development of later generations, the customs of sweeping, hiking, swinging, cuju, holding hooks and breaking eggs gradually increased. The Cold Food Festival lasted for more than 2,000 years and was once called the largest folk festival.
The origin of cold food
According to historical records, during the Spring and Autumn Period, Zhong Er, the son of the State of Jin, fled to other countries and lived in exile for 19 years. Minister Jiezitui always followed around and never gave up. Even "stock trading."
Zhong Er tried to become a famous monarch "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 out of the mountain, but meson was determined not to go out of the mountain and eventually died in a fire.
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".
Before the calendar reform in Tang Ruowang in the early Qing Dynasty, Tomb-Sweeping Day was scheduled for two days after the Cold Food Festival. After the reform of the Tang family, the Cold Food Festival was held the day before Tomb-Sweeping Day. The definition of the modern twenty-four solar terms follows that of the Tang Dynasty, so the Cold Food Festival is the day before Tomb-Sweeping Day.
The custom of cold food festival-no fire
The Cold Food Festival was also called "No Smoking Festival" in ancient times. Everyone is forbidden to make a fire and eat cold food. However, due to the persistent pursuit of sages by Chinese people, it was repeatedly banned from the Eastern Han Dynasty to the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and it was not until the Tang Dynasty that it was recognized and participated by the royal family. "Try new fire and new tea" in Su Shi's Looking at the South of the Yangtze River is about brew tea's behavior after the poet's cold food. The folk custom of forbidding fire and cold food in Shanxi is mostly one day, and only a few places are used to forbidding fire for three days.
recite/chant poems
During the Cold Food Festival, literati or homesick relatives, or borrowing scenery, have feelings, feelings, inspirations, poems and chanters. According to the survey, The Complete Poems of Tang Dynasty alone contains more than 300 poems by famous people such as Tang Xuanzong, Zhang Shuo, Du Fu, Han Yu and Liu Zongyuan, as well as more than 100 poems in the Song, Jin and Yuan Dynasties, making it a wonderful work in Chinese poetry art.
Cold food poetry
cold drink and snack
plum
Spring city is full of flowers,
Cold food, east wind and willows.
At sunset, in the Han Palace, people distribute candles.
Light smoke scattered into Wuhou mansion.