When was the Cold Food Festival replaced by Tomb-Sweeping Day?

When was the Cold Food Festival replaced by Tomb-Sweeping Day? In which dynasty did Tomb-Sweeping Day replace the Cold Food Festival?

Now the Cold Food Festival has been gradually forgotten and has been incorporated into Tomb-Sweeping Day. During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, the status of Tomb-Sweeping Day rose, replacing the Cold Food Festival. According to documents, some places in northern China had a strict fire ban system in the pre-Qin period, and there was a custom that officials changed fire to serve the people. Because the ancient fire ban system was too cruel and strict, it did not care about the specific conditions of various places, and even affected people's production and life. Thus, in the Han Dynasty, Zhou Ju abolished the fire ban custom in Taiyuan. In many places in the Han Dynasty, fires were banned for one month. In the Tang Dynasty, the Cold Food Festival became three days, which were called Big Cold Food, Official Cold Food and Small Cold Food. After the Tang Dynasty, the Cold Food Festival gradually declined.

Traditional customs of cold food festival

Smoking and eating cold food are forbidden.

The most obvious feature of the Cold Food Festival is to ban smoking and eat cold food. Every household will not make a fire, but only prepare food such as bean jelly and cold noodles before eating. According to legend, this custom was banned in Zhong Er, Jin Wengong, to commemorate the loyal minister and celebrity Jiexiu who died in the fire. Later, people used mesons to promote noble character and passed it on from generation to generation. Although it was once interrupted, this custom has been celebrated for two thousand years now.

Sacrificial willow insertion

The sacrifice of the Cold Food Festival is to mourn and sweep the ancestors. In ancient times, people went to sweep graves at the Cold Food Festival. After cleaning the tombstone, they will put the newly-grown willow branches on the tombstone, and then burn incense and paper. After the sacrificial activities, people will weave willow branches into garlands. Later, willow branches became a symbol of the Cold Food Festival, and people had a cultural tradition of mourning.

spring outing

Also known as spring outing, Sheng Xing was born in Tang and Song Dynasties. Song Lizhi's words "What I saw in the East Valley" say: "I swept things, and then I went home happily with my brother, wife, relatives and deeds."

sway

Swing was originally a female amusement in the ancient cold food festival. Wang Renyu's "Kaiyuan Tianbao Legacy" in the Five Dynasties recorded that "the Tianbao Palace Mid-solstice Cold Food Festival actually erected a swing, which made the wives and concubines in the palace laugh and thought it was a feast.

Coarse ball

Popular in the Tang Dynasty, the Song Dynasty's "Literature General Examination" contained: "Cuju, Gai began in the Tang Dynasty. Plant two bamboos, several feet high, and wrap the net on the net to measure the ball for the door. The ball is divided into friends and friends, and the game wins from the angle.

recite/chant poems

During the Cold Food Festival, literati or homesick relatives, or borrowing scenery, have feelings, feelings, inspirations, poems and chanters.