Cold Food Festival and the Origin of Tomb-Sweeping Day

Origin of Cold Food Festival: Cold Food Festival originated in the Spring and Autumn Period, and Jiezhitui was burned in Mianshan, Jiexiu. Jin Wengong ordered that it is forbidden to light a fire and eat cold food on the anniversary of children's death, and used cold food to express grief.

The origin of Tomb-Sweeping Day: Tomb-Sweeping Day is the most solemn ancestor worship festival of the Chinese nation, and it belongs to a traditional cultural festival that remembers ancestors and is cautious from beginning to end. Tomb-Sweeping Day embodies the national spirit, inherits the sacrificial culture of Chinese civilization, and expresses people's moral feelings of respecting and honoring their ancestors. Sweeping the grave is a "tomb sacrifice", which is called a "time to respect our ancestors". Spring and Autumn Festival has existed since ancient times.

Tomb-Sweeping Day has a long history, which originated from ancient ancestral beliefs and spring ceremonies. According to the research results of modern anthropology and archaeology, the two most primitive beliefs of human beings are the belief in heaven and earth and the belief in ancestors. The establishment of the chronology of ancient cadres and branches provided decisive conditions for the formation of festivals. Ancestor belief and sacrificial culture were important factors in the formation of ancestral rituals and customs in Qingming Festival.