What's the festival before Tomb-Sweeping Day? What festivals were there before Tomb-Sweeping Day?

What's the festival before Tomb-Sweeping Day? What festivals were there before Tomb-Sweeping Day?

The important sacrificial solar term before Tomb-Sweeping Day is Cold Food Festival, which, like Tomb-Sweeping Day, is not only a traditional festival in China, but also a sacrificial festival. As we all know, Tomb-Sweeping Day is not only a traditional festival in China, but also a natural node of the 24 solar terms. When the solar calendar reaches 15 degrees, it is Tomb-Sweeping Day Qi, that is, around April 5 of the Gregorian calendar every year. The time of the Cold Food Festival is determined according to the time of the winter solstice. The cold food festival is from winter to 105 in the future, usually one or two days before Tomb-Sweeping Day. Different from other festivals, Cold Food Festival is the only traditional festival named after food in China.

Although the Cold Food Festival, like Tomb-Sweeping Day, is a sacrificial festival, its origin is to commemorate Jiexiu. Jie Zitui is a minister of the State of Jin. During the Spring and Autumn Period, Zhong Er, the son of the State of Jin, went into exile for a long time to avoid disaster. During this period, Jiezitui stayed with Zhong Er and even cut off his thigh for Zhong Er to eat. The Middle Ear made great efforts and became a famous monarch "Jin Wengong". However, at this time, Girndt did not ask Jin Wengong for fame, but took his old mother to live in Mianshan. In order to force Jean Tui to see himself, Jin Wengong ordered the release of Yamakaji, but he never wanted Jean Tui to go down the mountain. Finally, he and his mother were burned to death under a big willow tree. To commemorate Jiexiu, a loyal minister, Jin Wengong designated the day when Jiexiu died as "No Fire Festival", which means that on this day, the whole country can't burn a fire, so people can only prepare enough food in advance and live on cold food. Later, people changed this day to "Cold Food Festival".

From the Spring and Autumn Period to the present, the Cold Food Festival has a history of more than 2,600 years. Due to the different history of different countries, the time of Cold Food Festival is also different. There were five days, one hundred and five days, one month, three days, two days, five days and seven days, and it didn't become the present day until later. The diet of the Cold Food Festival is mainly cold food, for example, people should eat cold porridge, cold noodles, cold paste and so on during the Cold Food Festival. Tomb-Sweeping Day's eating cold food is not only the memory of meson tui by later generations, but also the praise of honesty.

The original purpose of the Cold Food Festival is to commemorate the loyal minister Jietui, and the custom is to ban smoking and eat cold food. However, with the passage of time, the Cold Food Festival has gradually evolved from banning smoking and eating cold food to offering sacrifices to ancestors. The time and customs are roughly the same as those in Tomb-Sweeping Day, so many people now combine the Cold Food Festival with Tomb-Sweeping Day. Especially young people nowadays, few people know that there is a cold food festival in front of Tomb-Sweeping Day. Some old people will call the Cold Food Festival and Tomb-Sweeping Day "Qingming Cold Food".

What do you eat at cold food festivals everywhere?

Jinzhong area still retains the habit of banning fire the day before Qingming. In many places, after the sacrificial ceremony is completed, food will be sacrificed. When people in southern Shanxi crossed Tomb-Sweeping Day, they used to steam big steamed buns with white flour, with walnuts, dates and beans in the middle, coiled into dragons outside, and an egg tied in the middle of the dragon's body, named "Zifu". It is necessary to steam a big "blessing" to symbolize family reunion and happiness. When going to the grave, the "Zifu" is usually dedicated to the ancestors and shared by the whole family after sweeping the grave.

Jimo eats eggs and cold cakes, while Laiyang, Zhaoyuan and Long Island eat eggs and cold sorghum rice. It is said that if not, there will be hail. Taian eats cold pancakes and rolls bitter vegetables. It is said that his eyes are bright.

Lao Dinghai's grave-sweeping sacrifice has a special feature. Many dishes are cold dishes, as well as Qingming special snacks-green cakes and striped cakes, which can be eaten cold. After the ceremony, the children who look after the grave should be given "mashed money" (mashed green cakes are also round and diamond). After going to the grave, I have to make "Qingming soup rice" when I go home.

The custom of people sweeping graves in Taiwan Province Province can be roughly divided into two types: one is sweeping graves in general, with simple rituals and sacrifices, and most of them are just rice cakes, cakes and cakes; The second is to repair the ancestral graves, and the sacrifices are also quite grand. Sacrifice generally includes all kinds of sacrifices, twelve kinds of vegetables, cakes and so on. When sweeping the grave, you must place "tomb paper" around the grave. There are small stones on every piece of paper, and a pile must be placed on the tombstone. This ceremony, commonly known as "hanging paper", is money for ancestors. If it is to repair the tomb, that is, to repair the ancestral grave, the whole family gathers in front of the grave to eat red eggs, and the eggshells are scattered on the cemetery, which contains the auspicious meaning of metabolism and endless life. In the rural areas of Taiwan Province Province, a group of children came to beg for money after each grave-sweeping. The more people come, the more developed the family will be in the future, and the owners will be willing to give money or money to those children.

According to the old custom in Shanghai, steamed cakes for sacrifice should be put on wicker and dried and stored. When they come in the long summer, they will be fried and given to the children. It is said that eating it in summer won't make you sick. Tomb-Sweeping Day has the custom of eating dumplings. Mix Bromus inermis juice with glutinous rice to make the green juice and rice flour blend with each other, then wrap it with stuffing such as bean paste and jujube paste, and put it in a steamer with reed leaves as the bottom. Steamed balls are green in color and fragrant, which is the most distinctive seasonal food in Tomb-Sweeping Day. There are also some people in Shanghai, Tomb-Sweeping Day, who love to eat peach blossom porridge and fish with knives when sweeping graves and having family dinners.