How did the Cold Food Festival come about?

The origin of the Cold Food Festival is that in order to commemorate Jiexiu, Jin Wengong designated this day as a day to ban fire and cold, which was later called the Cold Food Festival.

In ancient times, the Cold Food Festival was an important festival. According to legend, Jin Wengong Zhong Er was forced to flee, and meson tui once cut off the meat on his leg to satisfy Jin Wengong's hunger. Later, Zhong Er tried to become a famous gentleman. However, meson push is not beneficial, so he retired from Mianshan with his mother. Jin Wengong ordered the release of Yamakaji in order to force the meson out of the mountain.

As a result, Jiezitui and his mother, who didn't want to go out of the mountain, were burned to death under a willow tree in Mianshan. Jin Wengong remembered his loyalty, buried him in Mianshan and built a temple. He also ordered that on the day of meson's death, cold food should be banned to send grief.

The custom of cold food festival

The customs of the Cold Food Festival include ancestor worship, grave-sweeping, willow planting, outing, poetry competition, playing football, planting trees, swinging, flower viewing, chicken fighting, group building, tug-of-war, drilling wood for fire, flying kites and many other activities, which greatly make up for the regret that the ancients did not have the Internet.

The Cold Food Festival, which lasted for more than two thousand years, is definitely the largest folk festival with a long history and the only festival named after "eating" in the Chinese nation. In order to eat, it is really hard to come up with such a far-fetched reason-so the creativity of foodies is endless-which lasted for more than 2,600 years, showing how popular and marketable foodies are-more than half of the time is spent on "eating".