Festival solar terms short story Qingming

Jiezitui disdains to fight for merit and rewards, and quietly goes to Mianshan to live in seclusion. When Jin Wengong heard this, he was very ashamed. He personally went to Mianshan to ask for meson push, but he couldn't find it. According to the minister's plan, he set fire to Mianshan, trying to force mesons to push. The fire burned all over Mianshan, but there was no trace of meson push. After the fire was put out, it was found that meson pushed an old willow tree and died. Jin Wengong cried.

When I was buried, I found a bloody book in a tree hole, which said, "May my master be clear forever." To commemorate meson tui, Jin Wengong ordered that this day be designated as Cold Food Festival. The following year, Jin Wengong led the minister to climb a mountain to pay homage, and found that the old willow tree came back from the dead. They named the old willow "Qingming Willow" and told the world that the day after the Cold Food Festival was designated as Tomb-Sweeping Day, so the two festivals were linked together. Later, the Cold Food Festival and its activities gradually merged into Tomb-Sweeping Day.

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Tomb-Sweeping Day has the custom of offering sacrifices to sweep graves. According to records, in ancient times, "tombs were not graves", that is to say, only graves were dug, and no graves were built, so there was no record of offering sacrifices to sweep graves in related books. Later, graves and graves, the custom of offering sacrifices to sweep graves, were supported. During the Qin and Han Dynasties, tomb sacrifice has become an indispensable ritual activity. To sweep the grave is to sacrifice to the grave and go to the grave to pay homage to the ancestors.

Out of respect for ancestors, people will cut grass, trim wood and add soil to cultivate graves when offering sacrifices to graves, so it is called grave sweeping. It is generally believed that the custom of sweeping graves in Tomb-Sweeping Day only became popular during the Sui and Tang Dynasties. Due to the developed and strong ancestor worship and consanguineous consciousness of China people, the ancient irregular tomb sacrifice was also included in the Five Rites in later generations: "A scholar should be allowed to go to the tomb and be included in the Five Rites, which will always be a routine." Therefore, the custom of sweeping graves in Tomb-Sweeping Day has a long history.