The Cold Food Festival is also called "Cold Food Festival". Are there any special customs?

Cold Food Festival, also known as "Cold Food Festival", is a very traditional festival in China. The name of "Cold Food Festival" also comes from custom, because on that day, people usually eat cold food, so it is called Cold Food Festival. In fact, the Cold Food Festival not only has the custom of eating, but also has the customs of jogging, swinging, cuju, cockfighting and so on, and the gameplay can be said to be diverse. Moreover, the Cold Food Festival has many titles, such as "Smoke-free Festival" and "Hundred Days Festival".

Introduction to Cold Food Festival:

The Cold Food Festival is one of the traditional festivals in China, which falls after the annual winter solstice (one of the 24 solar terms) 105 day. Generally, one or two days before Tomb-Sweeping Day, it is also called "No-smoking Festival", "Cold Food Festival" and "Hundred Days Festival". Because the cold food festival forbids fire, it is not allowed to make a fire to cook, so you can only eat prepared cooked food and cold food, hence the name. Cold Food Festival is the only traditional festival named after food customs in China.

Worship ancestors:

From the Southern and Northern Dynasties to the Tang Dynasty, sweeping graves was regarded as a "wild sacrifice". The Tang Dynasty was included in the Ethan and became one of the auspicious gifts officially recognized and advocated. Later, it evolved into a royal mausoleum; Official sacrifices to Confucius Temple and sages; People go to sweep graves and so on. At that time, a family or a clan went to the ancestral grave together to offer sacrifices, add soil and hang paper money, and then pushed the swallow and snake rabbit to the top of the grave and rolled them down, putting them on with willow branches or needles to show their virtue.

No-smoking Festival and Cold Food Festival:

The date of the Cold Food Festival is just one or two days before Tomb-Sweeping Day. At first, the custom of the Cold Food Festival was not to bake food with fire, but to eat cold food and cooked food prepared in advance, hence the name "Cold Food Festival". Cold index finger is cold food, so it is also called "Cold Food Festival". However, in the following thousands of years of historical development, customs such as climbing, sweeping, swinging and cuju gradually increased.

Numerous customs:

Jinnan area is used to eating bean jelly, cold noodles and cold cakes, while Jiangnan area will eat green cakes made of grass head juice, and many other areas will eat cold porridge or cold noodles. And cold food pulp and so on. There are many other customs besides eating in the Cold Food Festival. The first thing is to worship the ancestors. Later, there were more customs such as jogging, swinging, cuju and cockfighting. It seems that the ancients were really good at playing.