1. When is the Cold Food Festival?
It is generally believed that the day before Tomb-Sweeping Day is the Cold Food Festival.
Cold food festival is an important traditional festival in spring. In most parts of China, it is celebrated on the day after winter solstice 105. In some areas, it is celebrated on the day before Tomb-Sweeping Day.
2. What is the Cold Food Festival?
Historically, the Cold Food Festival was also called the No Fire Festival and the No Smoking Festival. It commemorates the prohibition of cold food in the Spring and Autumn Period and gradually evolved into ancestor worship. Nowadays, the Cold Food Festival has become an important festival to remember the revolutionary ancestors and educate young people.
3. The origin of the Cold Food Festival
The source of the Cold Food Festival should be the worship of fire by human beings in ancient times, which became a custom along the way and formed the later No Fire Festival. After the fire was banned, it was changed to the Cold Food Festival to commemorate the famous minister of Jin in the Spring and Autumn Period.
During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the name "Tomb-Sweeping Day" was more than "cold food", which replaced the latter. Later, the custom of ancestor worship in the Cold Food Festival merged with Tomb-Sweeping Day, which is also the reason why the Cold Food Festival was gradually forgotten.
4. The custom of Cold Food Festival
The birthplace of the Cold Food Festival is Mianshan, Jiexiu, Shanxi, which has a history of 2640 years. The customs of the Cold Food Festival include going to the grave, going out for an outing, cockfighting, swinging, playing with carpets, pulling hooks (tug of war), inserting willows, hiking, smoking and cold food.
No Smoking Cold Food Festival Cold Food Festival was also called "No Smoking Festival" in ancient times. Everyone is forbidden to make a fire and eat cold food.
Worship ancestors
The Cold Food Festival was regarded as a "wild sacrifice" from the Southern and Northern Dynasties to the Tang Dynasty. One of the auspicious gifts recognized and advocated by the government. Later, it evolved into a royal mausoleum; Official sacrifices to Confucius Temple and sages; People go to sweep graves and so on. At that time, a family or clan went to the ancestral grave to sacrifice, add soil and hang paper money. Then spread swallows and snakes and rabbits on the top of the grave, roll them down, put them on with willow branches or needles, and put them in the high place in the house to show their virtue.
Cold food diet
Cold food includes cold porridge, cold noodles, cold paste, green rice and porridge. Cold food offerings include pink swallow, snake rabbit, jujube cake, refined rye, god and so on. There are dozens of drinks, such as spring wine, fresh tea, clear spring and sweet water.
Cold food inserted willow
The symbol of the vitamin cold food festival was originally to miss Jie Zhi's pursuit of political clarity. As early as the Northern and Southern Dynasties, there was a record in the Chronicle of Jingchu that "every family broke willow during the cold food between Jianghuai and Suzhou", and it is still popular to wear mustard flowers and wheat leaves instead of willow branches in Anhui, Suzhou and other places.
Cold food swing
Swing was originally a female amusement in the ancient cold food festival. Wang Renyu's "Kaiyuan Tianbao Legacy" in the Five Dynasties recorded that "the Tianbao Palace Mid-solstice Cold Food Festival actually erected a swing, which made the wives and concubines in the palace laugh and thought it was a feast. The emperor called it a semi-fairy play, so the scholars in the capital called it. " Wen Yanbo, the prime minister of the Song Dynasty, wrote the poem "Cold Food Day Crossing the Dragon Gate", which is described as "the willow on the bridge hangs on a line and hangs more colorful ropes."
Cold-eating coarse balls
Popular in the Tang Dynasty, the Song Dynasty's "Literature General Examination" contained: "Cuju, Gai began in the Tang Dynasty. Plant two bamboos, several feet high, and wrap the net on the net to measure the ball for the door. The ball is divided into friends and friends, and the game is divided into corners. " History: Tang Dezong, Xian Zong, Mu Zong and Jing Zong all like to play cuju, and Yuan Gui, the state capital, wrote: "In the twelfth year of Zhenyuan, Tang Dezong, the Cold Food Festival was held in February, and the Imperial Palace East Pavilion was used to watch Wu Dachen and Wu's children, and a banquet was held for the ministers to be slaughtered." In the Song Dynasty, there was "Taizu Cuju Map".
Poems sung in cold food
During the Cold Food Festival, literati or homesick relatives, or borrowing scenery, have feelings, feelings, inspirations, poems and chanters.
Spring jingchang
Picking wild vegetables during the cold food festival not only exercises the body, but also meets the needs of the human body, killing two birds with one stone. Finally, I want to talk about psychological adjustment in spring health preservation.