Brief introduction to the origin of Cold Food Festival; 100 traditional activities of the Cold Food Festival.

Brief introduction to the origin of Cold Food Festival 100 words

The Cold Food Festival is from summer to the future 105, 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, crochet and cockfighting were gradually increased. The Cold Food Festival lasted for more than 2,000 years and was once called the largest folk festival in China. Cold Food Festival is the only traditional festival of Han nationality named after food customs.

According to legend, Zhong Er, the son of the Jin Dynasty, traveled around the world and experienced hardships. Once, when he was hungry and helpless, Jie Zhitui cut the meat off his thigh for him to eat. Later, Zhong Er became king (Jin Wengong, one of the five tyrants in the Spring and Autumn Period) and went with his mother to find Jie Zhitui hiding in the mountains. I couldn't find it anywhere, so I ordered Yamakaji to be released, trying to force Jiexiu out, only to find that Jiexiu and his mother were burned to death. Zhong Er regretted it very much, so he made it a rule not to light a fire and eat all the cold food at this time of the year. This is the so-called Cold Food Festival.

The activities of the Cold Food Festival

In front of Tomb-Sweeping Day. There is a traditional festival with a long history called Cold Food Festival. Nowadays, few people know the Cold Food Festival, or think that it is an ancient name of Tomb-Sweeping Day, which confuses people, but it is not. Tomb-Sweeping Day is in early March of the lunar calendar, and the Cold Food Festival is in February of the lunar calendar. The Cold Food Festival has two important activities, one is to ban fire, and the other is to sweep graves.

Cooking is forbidden (on some days)

According to "Zhou Li", the fire was forbidden in the Cold Food Festival as "March Fire". According to the custom at that time, whenever the fire was extinguished in February in mid-spring, a new fire was introduced from the palace to the people in March, and the day when the new fire alternated with the old one was the Cold Food Festival.

But some astronomers have suggested that it is a great historical misunderstanding for future generations to understand internal fire and fire as burning fire. The word "fire" here was originally the name of the star in astronomy, which means big Mars. It is the Q star of Scorpio, and its middle name is Antares, also known as Shangxing. It is the main symbol star used to determine the seasons in ancient China. The astronomical official at that time was called Huozheng. The so-called "fire in March" actually means that Mars appears in the east in the evening of March. The dragon rises in February, the fire erupts in March and the fire erupts in May, which are different positions of the same group of celestial phenomena in different seasons. Observing their direction is very important for determining the season. China has always been based on agriculture, so it is particularly important to accurately determine the spring sowing season for agricultural production. Therefore, it is necessary to set up an official in charge of fire control to inform people about the fire ban every year.

Pay tribute to the dead at their graves.

Another activity of the Cold Food Festival is sweeping graves, including adding soil to graves, pruning trees, mowing grass, cleaning graves and offering sacrifices to ancestors. The poem "Cold Food and Wild Hope", which claims to be Yi people, describes people's sad mood when sweeping graves on the Cold Food Festival.

The crow's voice is faint in the tree, and the Qingming cold food is crying.

The wind blows the paper money in the wilderness, and the ancient tomb is full of spring grass.

Pears reflect poplars everywhere.

I don't hear the heavy spring crying, but the rustling rain makes people return.

Now, in Fuzhou, when most people pay homage to their ancestors' graves in Tomb-Sweeping Day, some village residents are used to choosing the Double Ninth Festival to sweep graves. In Minqing County, located in the west of Fuzhou, many people's traditional grave-sweeping season is around the Mid-Autumn Festival, and Qingming does not carry out any sacrificial grave-sweeping activities. In Putian in the south, grave sweeping time is divided into Tomb-Sweeping Day, Chung Yeung Festival and winter solstice. Winter solstice is the mainstream in most areas and urban areas, and the Qingming grave sweeping area is distributed along the coast only once. In Zhangzhou, southern Fujian, the grave-sweeping season is the third day of March, commonly known as the "March Festival", which is the ancient Shangsi Day and is quite special. At this time, the custom of sweeping graves also spread to Taiwan Province Province, which caused the time difference of sweeping graves in Zhangquan.