Was it cold food in Tomb-Sweeping Day the day before?

The day before in Tomb-Sweeping Day was the Cold Food Festival.

The Cold Food Festival is a traditional festival in China, and it is also the only festival named after the dietary customs among the traditional festivals of the Han nationality. It lasted for more than 2,000 years and was once called the largest folk festival in China. Before the calendar reform in Tang Ruowang in the early Qing Dynasty, Tomb-Sweeping Day was scheduled for two days after the Cold Food Festival. After the reform of the Tang family, the Cold Food Festival was held the day before Tomb-Sweeping Day. The definition of the modern twenty-four solar terms follows that of the Tang Dynasty, so the Cold Food Festival is the day before Tomb-Sweeping Day.

From the Spring and Autumn Period to the present, the Cold Food Festival has a history of more than 2,600 years. The story took place in Shanxi, China, and was set as the day before Tomb-Sweeping Day. On this day, the custom of eating cold food, offering sacrifices and having an outing has been handed down and accepted by the whole country. With the passage of time, the Cold Food Festival has quietly merged into Tomb-Sweeping Day.

The custom of cold food festival

1, eat cold food

Legend has it that meson tui was burned to death in the mountains on the day of the Cold Food Festival. In memory of this loyal minister, people don't make a fire at the Cold Food Festival, but eat cold food. Common cold foods are bean jelly, cold noodles, cold cakes, mugs and so on.

Step 2 sacrifice

Before the Northern and Southern Dynasties, cold food sacrifices were called "wild sacrifices". Later, the official of the Tang Dynasty designated this day as Tomb-Sweeping Day. On this day, the people, the government and the royal family will offer sacrifices to sweep graves, add soil and burn paper to express their grief and comfort their ancestors.

Step 3 insert willow

The symbol of the Vitamin Cold Food Festival was originally intended to remember meson's pursuit of political clarity. As early as the Northern and Southern Dynasties, there was a record in the Chronicle of Jingchu that "every family broke willow during the cold food between Jianghuai and Suzhou", and it is still popular to wear mustard flowers and wheat leaves instead of willow branches in Anhui, Suzhou and other places. According to local historical records, there are some sayings, such as "the willow sticks in the grave", "the willow branches crease in the household", "the willow sticks in the eaves of the stove" and "it is also worn on the head or with it", so there is a saying among the people that "the beauty becomes a bald head without wearing the willow when eating cold food".

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