The Cold Food Festival, also known as "No-smoking Festival", "Cold Food Festival" and "Hundred Five Days Festival", is one hundred and five days after the summer calendar and one or two days before Tomb-Sweeping Day. In ancient times, because of the prohibition of fire during the Cold Food Festival, it was not allowed to cook food by fire, so we could only eat cooked food and cold food prepared in advance, hence the name. The Cold Food Festival lasted for more than 2,000 years and was once called the largest folk festival. Cold Food Festival is the only traditional festival of Han nationality named after food customs.

Food custom of Cold Food Festival:

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Jujube cake: As early as the Tang Dynasty, there were shops specializing in selling jujube cakes. Song people also produced new ideas. When eating cold food, they hung the "swallow-shaped" jujube cake string with wicker and inserted it on their doorstep, named it "purple-legged swallow". In memory of the noble quality of meson pushing fame and fortune.

Cereal rice: It tastes sweet and soft. Besides, what are the benefits of eating it? Some people say that you can lose weight and keep your hair beautiful. Even the poet saint Du Fu lamented that "without polished rice, my color is good". It's really a hundred herbs and sentient beings, which is helpful to the whole life!

Cold food porridge: it can regulate qi and regulate spleen and stomach deficiency and cold. With it, the "cold food and cold feast" is delicious and healthy.

Clear fruit: it has the function of relieving cough and resolving phlegm, and is the best choice for cold food ~

Drink yellow rice wine: Even the best cold food is "cool" after all, so the custom of "drinking yellow rice wine during the cold food festival" has been handed down. Warm yellow rice wine must be familiar to everyone, and it can be regarded as one of the representatives of warm stomach and healthy diet.