Cold Food Festival and the Origin and Customs of Tomb-Sweeping Day.

Cold Food Festival was recorded in the Spring and Autumn Period, and the customs included sweeping, climbing, swinging, cuju, pulling hooks and fighting cocks. Tomb-Sweeping Day began in the Zhou Dynasty, and the customs are forbidding fire, sweeping graves, climbing mountains, swinging, playing cuju, playing polo and inserting willows. Originally, the Cold Food Festival and Tomb-Sweeping Day were two different festivals. In the Tang Dynasty, it was designated as the Cold Food Festival. ?

Cold Food Festival: 105 Summer to the future, 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 in China. Cold Food Festival is the only traditional festival of Han nationality named after food customs.

The origin of the Cold Food Festival, according to historical records: During the Spring and Autumn Period, Zhong Er, the son of the State of Jin, fled to other countries and lived in exile for 19 years. Minister Jiezitui always followed around and never gave up; Even "cutting stocks." Zhong Er tried to become a famous monarch "Jin Wengong".

But meson tui didn't want to make a fortune, so he lived in seclusion with his mother in Mianshan. Jin Wengong ordered the release of Yamakaji to force him out of the mountain, but meson was determined not to go out of the mountain and eventually died in a fire. Bearing in mind his ambition to be a loyal minister, Jin Wengong buried him in Mianshan, built a shrine and a temple, and ordered the fire and cold to be banned on the day of the festival to show his grief. This is the origin of the "Cold Food Festival".

Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as the outing festival, is one of the traditional festivals in China, and it is also one of the most important sacrificial festivals. It is at the turn of mid-spring and late spring, that is, 104 days after the winter solstice. This is the day to worship ancestors and sweep graves.

The traditional Tomb-Sweeping Day of the Han nationality in China began in the Zhou Dynasty and has a history of more than 2,500 years. Influenced by the Han culture, 24 ethnic minorities in China, such as Manchu, Hezhe, Zhuang, Oroqen, Dong, Tujia, Miao, Yao, Li, Shui, Jing and Qiang, also have the customs of Tomb-Sweeping Day. Although customs vary from place to place, grave-sweeping and outing are the basic themes.