Tomb-Sweeping Day is also called Cold Food Festival and Cold Food Festival. Why?

Cold food festival, also known as smoke-free festival, cold food festival. The date of the Cold Food Festival is just one or two days before Tomb-Sweeping Day. At first, the custom of the Cold Food Festival was not to bake food with fire, but to eat cold food and cooked food prepared in advance, hence the name "Cold Food Festival".

Cold index finger is cold food, so it is also called "Cold Food Festival". However, in the following thousands of years of historical development, customs such as climbing, sweeping, swinging and cuju gradually increased.

The origin of the Cold Food Festival:

According to historical records, during the Spring and Autumn Period, Zhong Er, the son of the State of Jin, fled to other countries and lived in exile for 19 years. Minister Jiezitui always followed around and never gave up. Even "cutting stocks." Zhong Er tried to become a famous monarch "Jin Wengong".

But meson tui didn't want to make a fortune, so he lived in seclusion with his mother in Mianshan. Jin Wengong ordered the release of Yamakaji to force him out of the mountain, but meson was determined not to go out of the mountain and eventually died in a fire. Jin Wengong remembered his loyalty, buried him in Mianshan, built a shrine and a temple, and ordered the prohibition of cold food on the day of Jiexiu to express his grief. This is the origin of the "Cold Food Festival".