When is the Cold Food Festival in 2022?
Calendar 2022 Cold Food Festival Schedule: The 2022 Cold Food Festival will be held on Monday, April 4, 2022, the fourth day of March in the Year of the Tiger.
The Cold Food Festival originated in the Spring and Autumn Period, and Jiezhi burned in Mianshan, Jiexiu. 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. The Cold Food Festival was 2640 years ago. There were five days, one hundred and five days, one month, three days and two days, five days and seven days, and finally it became one day. From Jiexiu and Taiyuan County to all parts of the country and even overseas (for example, Gao Changguo has designated March 9 as the Cold Food Festival since the Tang Dynasty).
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, chicken fighting, 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.
Is 2022 Cold Food Festival the day before or the day after Tomb-Sweeping Day?
This year's Cold Food Festival is the day before Tomb-Sweeping Day.
According to the calendar, this year's Cold Food Festival is on April 4, 2022, while Tomb-Sweeping Day is on April 5, 2022, so the Cold Food Festival is the day before Tomb-Sweeping Day.
Tomb-Sweeping Day is an important traditional festival. Qingming ancestor worship has been a fine tradition of the Chinese nation since ancient times. It is not only conducive to promoting filial piety and family memory, but also conducive to promoting the cohesion and identity of family members and even the country. Tomb-Sweeping Day combines natural solar terms with humanistic customs. It is the unity of time, place and people. It fully embodies the idea that the ancestors of the Chinese nation pursued the harmonious unity of "heaven, earth and man", paid attention to local conditions and followed the laws of nature. Tomb-Sweeping Day, Spring Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival are called the four traditional festivals in China. Besides China, some countries and regions in the world also celebrate Tomb-Sweeping Day, such as Viet Nam, South Korea, Malaysia and Singapore.
Cold Food Festival, also known as "No Smoking Festival", "Cold Food Festival" and "Hundred Days Festival", follows the ancient habit of changing fire. The climate is dry in early spring. Not only the kindling kept by people is easy to cause fires, but also the occurrence of spring thunder is easy to cause mountain fires. The ancients held grand sacrificial activities in this season.
The Cold Food Festival is a festival that begins in one day. No fireworks, only cold food. In the development of later generations, customs such as sweeping the floor, outing, swinging, cuju, pulling hooks and fighting cocks gradually increased. The Cold Food Festival lasted for more than 2,000 years and was once called the biggest anniversary in China. Cold Food Festival is the only traditional festival of Han nationality named after food customs.
What do people avoid at the Cold Food Festival?
1, no fire, no smoking, in fact, this is also the custom of the Cold Food Festival. Cooking is not allowed on this day, and everyone has to eat cold food. In ancient times, it was disrespectful to light a fire on this day, and disaster would come.
2. It is forbidden to take photos in the cemetery. The Cold Food Festival also has the same grave sweeping activities as Qingming, but Qingming knows the public better. Grave-sweeping is to worship ancestors, so it is not allowed to take pictures in the cemetery. Taking photos in the cemetery is considered as an act of disrespect and may lead to notoriety.
It is forbidden to buy shoes during the Cold Food Festival. Shoes are homophonic with "evil". This period is as heavy as Qingming. If you buy shoes back, it is equivalent to bringing evil spirits home.
4, avoid hanging wind chimes on the bedside, even if it has been hung before, it should be taken off on the day of cold clothes. Because wind chimes are easy to attract ghosts, people are often most likely to attract ghosts to invade when they sleep.