When is the Cold Food Festival?

The Cold Food Festival is the day before Tomb-Sweeping Day on April 3rd every year.

The Cold Food Festival, which lasted for more than two thousand years, was once called the largest folk festival in China. The Cold Food Festival is the only traditional festival named after the dietary customs of the Han nationality. Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as Walking Festival, Walking Festival, March Festival, ancestor worship festival, etc. Celebrate at the turn of mid-spring and late spring.

From the Spring and Autumn Period to the present, the Cold Food Festival has a history of more than 2,600 years. The story took place in Shanxi, China, and it was set as the day before Tomb-Sweeping Day. On this day, the customs of eating cold food, offering sacrifices and hiking have been handed down and accepted by the whole country. With the passage of time, the Cold Food Festival has quietly merged into Tomb-Sweeping Day, and the people's praise for loyalty, honesty and political clarity represented by cold food has been consistent for thousands of years.

There are many special tracks and chapters about festivals, tuijie and cold food festivals in Yuan Zaju, modern Beijing Opera, Jin Opera, modern Jin Opera and novels in Ming Dynasty. Since the Eastern Han Dynasty, legends, stories and inscriptions on mesons have also become important historical materials for the study of folk literature and epigraphy in Sanjin.

From Qu Yuan in the Warring States Period, Sun Chu in the Western Jin Dynasty to modern times, poems dedicated to the Cold Food Festival have never stopped. There are nearly 300 poems in the whole Tang Dynasty, and there are more than 100 poems and Yuan songs in the Song Dynasty, involving historical celebrities such as Xuanzong and Zhang Shuo in the Tang Dynasty and representatives of various schools such as Du Fu, Bai Juyi and Eight Masters in the Tang and Song Dynasties, which have become important materials for studying the history of China's poetry development.