What is the origin of the Cold Food Festival?

The origin of the Cold Food Festival is:

Legend has it that during Jin Wengong's exile, meson tui once cut shares to satisfy his hunger. Jin Wengong returned to China as a monarch and was made a vassal. He was not content to get only the reward of meson push, and lived in seclusion with his mother in Mianshan. Later, Jin Wengong personally went to Mianshan to see Jietui, but Jietui didn't want to be an official.

Hiding in the mountains, Jin Wengong's men released Yamakaji, originally intended to force mesons to show their faces. As a result, meson pushed his mother and was burned to death under a big willow tree. In memory of this loyal minister and righteous man, Jin Wengong ordered that on the day when meson was pushed to death, he would not make a fire to cook, but eat cold food. This is the so-called Cold Food Festival.

The Festival Characteristics of Cold Food Festival

From respecting the meson to carrying forward the political ambition of loyalty to the monarch and patriotism, retiring after success, being honest and clean, and not violating the filial piety of relatives, it has developed into an important festival that unites people's hearts, embodies the Chinese soul and reflects the ancestral culture of the Chinese nation. And form a series of cold foods such as glutinous rice and green rice.

During the Cold Food Festival, there are visits to grave-sweeping, no smoking, ancestor worship, cold food, willow insertion, outing, cuju, tree planting, swinging, flower viewing, chicken fighting, banquet feeding and poetry reading. Many activities, such as banquets, flower viewing, cockfighting, chicken carving, pulling hooks (tug-of-war), drilling wood for fire, flying kites, shooting herbs, throwing pottery toys and so on. , greatly enriched the social life in ancient China.