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Urgent! ! Who knows the origin and customs of Dragon Boat Festival and Cold Food Festival?

The Cold Food Festival is from summer to the future 105, one or two days before Tomb-Sweeping Day. The first day is a holiday, smoking is forbidden and only cold food is eaten. In the development of later generations, customs such as sweeping, walking, swinging, cuju, holding hooks and fighting cocks gradually increased. The Cold Food Festival, which lasted for more than 2,000 years, was once known as the largest folk festival in China, and it was the only festival named after the food custom among the traditional festivals in China.

The Cold Food Festival is an important festival in the history of China, which originated from the story of ancestor worship, followed by mesons. [2] Cold Food Festival, also known as "No Smoking Festival", "Cold Food Festival" and "Hundred Days Festival", follows the ancient habit of changing fire. In early spring every year, the climate is dry, not only the kindling preserved by people is easy to cause fire, but also the occurrence of spring thunder is easy to cause mountain fires.

In this season, the ancients held a grand sacrificial ceremony to put out all the kindling handed down from the previous year, that is, "forbidding fire", and then drilled a new fire as the starting point of production and life in the new year, which was called "changing fire" or "inviting new fire". When the fire is changed, a grand ritual activity is held to burn the symbol of millet, the god of cereal, which is called human sacrifice.

After the custom was passed down, it formed the later No Fire Festival. There is an interval between banning fire and changing fire. Historical materials have different opinions such as three days, five days and seven days.

Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanyang Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Zhengyang Festival, Magnolia Festival and Tianzhong Festival, is a traditional folk festival in China. Celebrated every year on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, it originated in ancient China. It was originally a festival to drive away plagues and dragons in summer, and was later added to commemorate many historical figures in China.

It is said that Qu Yuan, a Chu poet in the Warring States Period, threw himself into the Miluo River on the Dragon Boat Festival. Later, people also took the Dragon Boat Festival as a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan. There are also sayings in memory of Wu Zixu, Cao E and meson push.