What are the stories about Qingming Festival?

1. Legend has it that one year during the Qingming Festival, Chen Taiping, a general of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, was pursued by the Qing soldiers to a piece of farmland. At that time, a farmer disguised Chen Taiping as a farmer to plow the land with himself. When the Qing soldiers failed to capture the man, they set up guard posts in the nearby villages, checking everyone entering and leaving the villages to prevent anyone from bringing food to Chen Taiping.

2. According to legend, during the Spring and Autumn Period, Duke Xian of Jin, the monarch of the state of Jin, had a young and beautiful concubine, Li Ji. In order for her son Xi Qi to succeed the throne in the future, she killed the crown prince Shen Sheng with a poisonous plan. Shen Sheng's younger brother, Chong Er, fled Jin to escape Li Ji's persecution, and was humiliated along the way. Once, when Chong Er fainted from hunger, his minister, Jie Zi Pui, cut off a piece of meat from his own leg, cooked it over a fire, and offered it to Chong Er to eat. After 19 years, they finally returned to the state of Jin, and Chong Er became the famous Duke of Jin in history.

Later, when Chong Er became the king of the state, he rewarded all of his exiles, except Jie Zi Tui, who refused to be rewarded and took his mother to live in seclusion in Mianshan Mountain. The Duke of Jin ordered to set fire to the mountain to force Jie Zi Tui to bring his mother out. But the fire killed Jie Zi Tui and his mother. In order to commemorate Jie Zi Tui, Duke Wen of Jin ordered that every year on this day, mountain fires were forbidden, and every family could only eat cold food. The next year, Duke Wen of Jin led his ministers to climb the mountain to pay homage to him, and found that the willow tree at that time was revived from the dead, so he gave the willow tree the name of Ching Ming Willow, and announced to the world, and then the day after the Cold Food Festival was designated as the Ching Ming Festival.

3. According to legend, at the end of the Qin Dynasty, Liu Bang, the founder of Han Dynasty, wanted to return to his hometown to pay homage to his parents after he unified the world, but due to the successive years of war, it made the ancestral hall surrounded by weeds and was in a state of disrepair. Although his men rummaged around, they could not find the tablet of Liu Bang's parents until dusk. Finally, Liu Bang had no choice but to start asking the gods. He took out a piece of paper from his sleeve and tore it into many small pieces and squeezed it in his hand. Liu Bang prayed to the gods and said, "I hope my parents are alive in heaven, and if there is a piece of paper that falls on any stele that can't even be blown by the wind, then it belongs to my parents. After saying this, Liu Bang threw the piece of paper into the air. Sure enough, there is a piece of paper fell on a broken tablet, no matter how the wind blowing can not be blown, Liu Bang ran over to take a closer look, the above is really engraved with a Liu character.