What's the difference between Cold Food Festival and Tomb-Sweeping Day?

1, different time: Tomb-Sweeping Day gas is generally around April 5 of the Gregorian calendar, that is, 15 after the vernal equinox; The day before Tomb-Sweeping Day Cold Food Festival.

2. Different places of origin:? Tomb-Sweeping Day started in the Zhou Dynasty and has a history of more than 2,500 years. The Cold Food Festival is held in the Spring and Autumn Period to commemorate the famous ministers of the State of Jin in the Spring and Autumn Period.

3. Different customs: Tomb-Sweeping Day has been celebrating the Cold Food Festival since the Qing Dynasty, and the customs are mainly grave sweeping and sacrificial activities; Since the Tang Dynasty, the custom of Cold Food Festival has been to ban smoking and eat cold food at home, and to establish the custom of sweeping graves among the people in the form of decrees.

Cold Food Festival, also known as "Smoke-free Festival", "Cold Food Festival" and "Hundred Days Festival", is held from the winter of the lunar calendar to the day after 105 and the day before Tomb-Sweeping Day.

In ancient times, every early spring, the climate was dry, not only the kindling preserved by people was easy to cause fires, but also the occurrence of spring thunder was easy to cause mountain fires. Therefore, in this season, the ancients had to hold a grand ritual activity, put out all the kindling handed down from the previous year, that is, "forbidding fire", and then dig wells again to get fire, that is, "changing fire" or "inviting new fire" There is a certain time interval between banning fire and changing fire, and historical materials have different opinions such as three days, five days and seven days. During this period, people must prepare enough cooked food to live with cold food, which is called "cold food", hence the name "Cold Food Festival".