Five stories about Tomb-Sweeping Day.

The traditional Tomb-Sweeping Day in China began in the Zhou Dynasty and has a history of more than 2,500 years. Tomb-Sweeping Day is first of all a very important solar term. As soon as Tomb-Sweeping Day arrives, the temperature rises, which is a good season for spring ploughing and planting. Therefore, there is a saying that "melons and beans are planted before and after Qingming". Agricultural proverb "Planting trees is not as clear as Qingming". Later, as the days of Qingming and cold food approached, cold food was the day when people banned fire to sweep graves. Gradually, cold food and Qingming became one, and cold food became another name of Qingming and became a custom of Qingming. On Qingming Day, there are no fireworks, only cold food.

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Zhong Er, the son of the State of Jin, fled abroad to avoid disaster. During this period, Zhong Er experienced many hardships. The courtiers who followed him left him and went their separate ways. Only a few people followed him, including a man named meson tui. On one occasion, Zhong Er fainted from hunger. In order to save him, Jiexiu cut a piece of meat from his thigh and cooked it for Zhong Er. Later, Zhong Er became the king of the State of Jin. After he became a monarch, he gave rewards to people who shared his joys and sorrows, except for mesons.

Jiezitui is not a man who is greedy for fame and fortune. He retired to Mianshan with his old mother. Later, Jin Wengong happened to think of it and felt very guilty. So he sent someone to Mianshan to ask meson to push him down the mountain, but he didn't come down. Jin Wengong personally invited him, but Jiezitui's home was locked, and he went to Mianshan with his old mother on his back. So someone advised people to prevent fire and pushed him down the mountain. So Jin Wengong ordered the mountain to be burned. Later, it was found that meson tui and his old mother were burned to death under a willow tree.

Jin Wengong found a letter written by meson in a hole under the willow tree, urging Jin Wengong to be diligent. To commemorate Jiexiu, Jin Wengong ordered Mianshan to be changed into Jiexiu, and ordered the whole country not to make a fire to cook on this day every year.

The following year, Jin Wengong came to worship and saw that the willow really came back from the dead. After the worship, Jin Wengong named this old willow Qingming Willow and named it Tomb-Sweeping Day.