What festival is the Cold Food Festival?

The Cold Food Festival, also known as "No-smoking Festival", "Cold Food Festival" and "Hundred Five Days Festival", is one hundred and five days after the summer calendar and one or two days before Tomb-Sweeping Day. When the first day of the day is a holiday, smoking is forbidden and only cold food is eaten. In the development of later generations, the customs of sweeping, climbing, swinging, cuju, crochet and cockfighting were gradually increased. The Cold Food Festival lasted for more than 2,000 years and was once called the largest folk festival.

After the fire was banned, it was changed to the Cold Food Festival to commemorate the famous minister of Jin in the Spring and Autumn Period. 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.

During the Han Dynasty, Shanxi folks banned fire for one month to commemorate it. During the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Cao, Emperor Wu of Wei, ordered the cancellation of this custom. In Yin Penalty Order, there is a saying that "people from Taiyuan, Shangdang and Yanmen, fasting cold food is the day after the winter solstice, and clouds push it for children", which makes people not eat cold food. If the offender's parents are sentenced to half a year's imprisonment, and the chief judge is sentenced to 100 days, he can win one month's salary. "