Do you know the custom of Cold Food Festival? What are the customs of the ancient Cold Food Festival?

1. Solstice after long summer, 105, one or two days before Tomb-Sweeping Day.

When the first day of the day is a holiday, you are not allowed to smoke and only eat cold food.

3. In the development of later generations, there have been customs such as sweeping sacrifices, outing, swinging, cuju, hooking up and cockfighting. Gradually added. The Cold Food Festival lasted for more than 2,000 years and was once called the largest folk festival in China.

4. Cold Food Festival is the only traditional festival in China named after food customs.

The Cold Food Festival was also called the No Smoking Festival in ancient times, and everyone was forbidden to make a fire and eat cold food.

6. However, due to China people's persistent pursuit of sages, it was repeatedly banned from the Eastern Han Dynasty to the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and the royal family in the Tang Dynasty recognized and participated in Taiping.

7. The Cold Food Festival was regarded as a wild sacrifice from the Southern and Northern Dynasties to the Tang Dynasty.

8. In the Tang Dynasty, it was included in Kay's eighty-seventh book "Worship the Princes" and became one of the auspicious gifts officially recognized and advocated.

9. Cold Food Festival is celebrated by steaming cold swallows. Flour is kneaded into swallows, songbirds, animals, melons and fruits, flowers, etc. The steamed swallows are colored, inserted into the needles of jujube trees, decorated indoors and given as gifts.