When is the Cold Food Festival?

The Cold Food Festival is April 4th, 2023.

The Cold Food Festival is a traditional festival in China, after the summer solstice and 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, hooking hands and fighting cocks were gradually increased, and the Cold Food Festival lasted for more than 2,000 years.

The Cold Food Festival was once known as the largest folk festival in China, and it was the only traditional festival of Han nationality named after food customs. Before the Tang Ruowang calendar changed in the early Qing Dynasty, Tomb-Sweeping Day was scheduled to be two days after the Cold Food Festival. After the Tang Dynasty changed, the Cold Food Festival was held the day before Tomb-Sweeping Day. The definition of the modern twenty-four solar terms follows that of the Tang Dynasty, so the Cold Food Festival is the day before Tomb-Sweeping Day.

Record ancient books

The Cold Food Festival originated from the record of burning Mianshan Mountain in Jiexiu, which was first seen in Huan Tan's New Theory Volume ·Xi· Parting in the Western Han Dynasty. Later, he published The History of the Later Han Dynasty, The History of the County and the Country, Taiyuan County, The History of the Later Han Dynasty, The Biography of Zhou Ju, Cao Cao's Ming Penalty Order, The Biography of Jin Shu Xerox, Li Daoyuan's Notes on Water Classics, Qi Yao Minshu's Cooking Cheese in the Northern Wei Dynasty, and Return to the Heart and Miscellaneous Knowledge in the Southern Song Dynasty.

In history, the Cold Food Festival and the Qingming Festival are similar, and over time, they merged into one festival. "Tang Yao Hui Volume 82 Vacation" clearly records: "(Kaiyuan) February 11: Cold food is bright, and the fourth day is a holiday. February 15th, 13th year of Dali: From now on, the cold food will be clear and there will be a five-day holiday. On March 9, Zhenyuan six years ago, it was said that the cold food was clear and clear, and it should be celebrated on January 1, three days before and after. Therefore, the Grand View of Traditional Culture in China states: "In the Tang Dynasty, the Cold Food Festival and Tomb-Sweeping Day became one. "

Refer to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Cold Food Festival