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Who is the Cold Food Festival to commemorate? When is the Cold Food Festival?

Cold food festival is to commemorate meson push. Before Tang Ruowang reformed the calendar, the Cold Food Festival was arranged two days before Tomb-Sweeping Day. After the political reform in Tang Dynasty, the Cold Food Festival was scheduled for the day before Qingming Festival. The definition of modern twenty-four solar terms follows the Tang Dynasty, so the Cold Food Festival is the day before Qingming Festival. Because it is 105 days after the winter solstice, the Cold Food Festival has other nicknames such as "One Hungry and Fifth Festival" and "One Hungry and Fifth Festival".

Jin Wengong led his ministers to walk in plain clothes to pay homage and express their condolences. Walking to the grave, I saw the dead old willow tree resurrected, with thousands of green branches dancing in the wind. Jin Wengong looked at the resurrected old willow tree and seemed to see the meson push. He walked up to him respectfully, lovingly squeezed a branch, braided it into a circle and put it on his head. After the sacrifice, Jin Wengong named the revived old willow "Qingming Willow" and named it Tomb-Sweeping Day.

Later, Jin Wengong often took a bloody book with him as a souvenir, urging himself to take power. He is diligent and honest, and strives to govern the country well.

Since then, the people of Jin have been able to live and work in peace and contentment, and they are very nostalgic for Jietui, who has made outstanding contributions and is not looking for wealth. On the day of his death, it is forbidden to set off fireworks in memory of him. It is also made of flour and jujube paste into the shape of a swallow, strung with willows and inserted in the door to summon his soul. This thing is called "pushing swallows" (also called intermediary pushing). Since then, cold food and Qingming have become grand festivals for the people of the whole country. Whenever there is cold food, people don't make a fire to cook, but only eat cold food. In the north, people only eat cold food prepared in advance, such as jujube cakes and wheat cakes. In the south, there are mostly green balls and glutinous rice and sugar lotus roots. Every time I go to Tomb-Sweeping Day, people put wicker in a circle and put wicker branches in front of the house to show their memory.