What is the Cold Food Festival? Why can't the Cold Food Festival sweep graves?

Cold food festival is a festival to commemorate meson tui. You can sweep graves at the Cold Food Festival.

The custom is: don't smoke, just eat cold food. In the development of later generations, customs such as climbing, swinging, cuju, crochet and cockfighting were gradually added, and the Cold Food Festival lasted for more than 2,000 years. The customs of the Cold Food Festival include going to the grave, outing, cockfighting, swinging, playing with carpets, pulling hooks (tug of war) and so on. The custom of going to the grave is very old.

Where there is a grave, there must be a tomb sacrifice. Later, due to the integration with the custom of evoking souls in March, it was gradually decided to sacrifice on cold food. Therefore, we can also see that going to the grave is one of the cold food festivals, which also shows that the cold food festival can actually sweep graves, saying that many people spend the cold food festival with Tomb-Sweeping Day. The Cold Food Festival lasted for more than 2,000 years and was once called the largest folk festival. This can also prove that the Cold Food Festival can sweep graves.

To sum up, the Cold Food Festival can sweep graves.