When is the Cold Food Festival?

The Cold Food Festival is held one or two days before Tomb-Sweeping Day on the Gregorian calendar every year.

The Cold Food Festival is a traditional festival in China, after the summer solstice 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, customs such as sweeping, walking, swinging, cuju, holding hooks and fighting cocks gradually increased. The Cold Food Festival, which lasted for more than 2,000 years, was once called the largest folk festival in China. Cold Food Festival is the only traditional festival of Han nationality named after food customs.

Since the Spring and Autumn Period, the Cold Food Festival has a history of more than 2600 years. With the passage of time, the Cold Food Festival has quietly merged into Tomb-Sweeping Day, and the people represented by the Cold Food Festival have praised loyalty, honesty and clarity for thousands of years.

Festival features

The Cold Food Festival also has another name "one hundred and fifty", because the Cold Food Festival is after the winter solstice 105. A poem by Su Zhe in the Song Dynasty is called "New Fire": "Yesterday was yesterday, all the old people ate cold food", and Mei in the Song Dynasty wrote "The feeling of cold food during the journey between Yi Yun and Sheren Li": "The wind and rain lasted for 150 days, and the clothes in the spring suburbs were wet". Cold food and no fire put out the remaining fires in winter. When it comes to Qingming, it is necessary to drill wood for fire again.

During the Cold Food Festival, there are customs such as sweeping graves, banning smoking, offering sacrifices to ancestors, eating cold food, inserting willows, climbing mountains, cuju, planting trees, swinging, enjoying flowers, fighting cocks, giving banquets, fighting cocks, carving eggs, pulling hooks (tug of war), drilling wood for fire, flying kites, fighting grass and throwing poems.

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