Qingming Festival originated from the legend of Jie Zi Tui, Jie Zi Tui what is the story?

The story of Jie Zi Pui. During the Spring and Autumn Period, Duke Wen of Jin was in exile, and on the way, he was tired and hungry, so he cut a piece of meat from his thigh and made soup for him, and he was grateful for that. After the Duke of Jin Wen became the throne, he forgot to reward his ministers, and Jie Zi Pui lived in Mianshan Mountain

The Duke of Jin regretted his death, and burned Mianshan Mountain to look for him, but he found Jie Zi Pui with his mother on his back, dead under a dead willow, and he left his last words: "Cutting off the flesh to serve the king, but I wish my lord would always be clear." ? To commemorate Jie Zi Tui, Duke Wen of Jin designated that day as the Cold Food Festival. The next year, Duke Wen of Jin climbed the mountain to pay homage to the dead willow tree, but the willow tree came back to life, so he bestowed on the old willow tree the name of "Ching Ming Willow", and the day after the Cold Food Festival was Ching Ming. The day after the Cold Snacks was designated as Ching Ming. After more than two thousand years of evolution, the Qingming Festival has gone beyond the meaning of the festival and has extremely rich connotations.

Different customs have been developed in different parts of the world, with tomb-sweeping, ancestor worship and excursions as the basic themes.

This ceremony, on the one hand, can express the worshipper's filial piety and care for the deceased; on the other hand, the ancients believed that the graves of the ancestors and the future generations of the rise and fall of the misfortunes of the close connection, so the cultivation of the tomb is extremely important memorial ceremony. Tomb-sweeping at Qingming is called "tomb-sacrifice", which is called "thinking of the time of respect" for ancestors, and its custom has a long history. The spring festival of tomb-sweeping and ancestor worship customs in the pre-Qin before, due to the pre-Qin period of the north and south of the customs are different, some places sweeping the tomb is not necessarily on the occasion of the Qingming.

Tomb-sweeping in the northern central plains of the pre-Qin era is mainly in the Cold Food Festival and Cold Clothes Festival, to the Tang and Song dynasty Qingming tomb-sweeping began to flourish nationwide. Qingming Festival has a long history of origin, the ancient four rituals in the spring of the temple rituals known as spring stop (later for the spring ancestral temple) of the rituals. The Tang Dynasty was a period of fusion of the customs of tomb festivals around the world, following the Qingming tomb festival custom and expanding it to the whole society.

From the record of "Rites of Passage", the ancient northern plains of China did not have Qingming on the tomb of the rules, to the Tang Dynasty, Qingming on the tomb has become a trend, starting from the Tang Dynasty, the court gave officials leave to facilitate the return to their hometowns to sweep the tomb. According to the song "dream sorghum record" records: every Qingming festival, "officials and the public are out of the countryside to save the tomb, in order to think of the time of respect." Tomb-sweeping activities before and after the Qingming Festival often become the whole society personally involved in the matter, a few days between the countryside crowd endless, the scale is extremely prosperous. In the Song and Yuan dynasties, the Qingming Festival has been blended with the cold food and on the Si two festivals, and has been passed down to the present day.