What traditional festivals are cold food related to?

Cold food is related to the traditional festival Cold Food Festival.

cold drink and snack

Author Meng Yunqing? the Tang Dynasty

Jiangnan in February is full of flowers, and cold food in other places is far from sadness.

Poor people often don't have fireworks, not only in the Ming Dynasty.

Translation:

February in Jiangnan is the season when flowers are in full bloom, like smoke and fog. I am far away from home alone, and I met the Cold Food Festival, which is extremely sad.

Poor people often have three meals, and there are no fireworks in the stove. It's just that there is no need to commemorate the ancient literati's meson push for tomorrow's broken cooking custom.

Content tasting:

The Cold Food Festival is on the 105th day from winter to the future, which is February. Due to the warm climate in the south of the Yangtze River, February is full of flowers. The first sentence of the poem describes phenology and points out the season. The word "man" conveys the feeling of flowers and beauty given by spring in the south of the Yangtze River. It is quite natural to touch the scene like this.

It should have been a pleasure to match this beautiful moment, but the second sentence unexpectedly wrote "sad". The author is from Kansai, traveling far south of the Yangtze River, alone in a foreign country, a stranger; Cold food festival, missing relatives, can not help but feel sad. In addition, the word "cold food" here not only refers to festivals, but also implies the meaning of eating less and having no food, so "cold food in other places" is even more tragic.

It is common in poetry to write sad feelings with happy scenes, which is also an artistic technique of contrast. However, before writing "Cold food elsewhere is far from sad", this poem first depicts the beautiful scenery of "Jiangnan is full of flowers in February". In the sad situation, it is different from the natural situation, because "flowers, as high as my window, hurt the wandering heart" can only multiply its sadness. Proper use of artistic techniques of contrast will make expression more powerful.