Reveal the cold food festival originated in which period?

"Tang Hui Yao Volume 82 leave" clearly recorded: (Kaiyuan) 24 years on February 11, Royal Decree: cold food Qingming, four days for the holiday. Dali thirteen years on February 15, Edicts: from now on, cold food through the Qingming, five days of vacation. To zhenyuan six years on March 9 edict: cold food Qingming, it is appropriate to quasi yuan day festival, before and after three days to each. Therefore, the "Chinese traditional culture": roughly to the Tang Dynasty, the cold food festival and the Qingming Festival into one.

According to legend, it was in the very, very early, as early as the Spring and Autumn Period, perhaps a night of lightning and thunder, perhaps the day suddenly dark clouds, but it must have been some kind of natural phenomenon. Because the Duke Xian of Jin died, at least a hegemon, is certain not to leave quietly, without taking away a cloud, must be heaven and earth for the move. Unfortunately, history does not say how the great battle between heaven and earth, but only records that the state of Jin was in internal turmoil, with all the sons vying for the throne, and that the Duke Chong'er was driven out of the state of Jin and took refuge outside. The leader of the vanguard battalion, Jie Zi Pui, and other ministers followed Chong Er loyally and spent 19 years in exile abroad. In the most difficult situation, Chong Er was so hungry that he could not walk in the state of Wei, and his ministers picked wild vegetables to cook food, but Chong Er could not swallow it. The loyal minister Jie Zi Tui secretly went into a mountain ditch, cut off a piece of meat from his own leg, and cooked it with wild vegetables to make soup for Chong Er. He asked where the soup came from, and the minister told him that Zi Tui had cut it off from his thigh, which moved him to tears.

The Duke of Jin Wen returned to the country as the king of Hou, divided the group of ministers, but forgot to jie Zi push, jie Zi push is not willing to boast about the favor, with his mother in Mianshan, and then the Duke of Jin Wen personally to the Mianshan to invite jie Zi push, jie Zi push is not willing to be an official. Hiding in the mountain, Duke Wen of Jin's men set fire to the mountain with the intention of forcing Jie Zi Pui to show his face, and as a result, Jie Zi Pui was burned to death under a big willow tree with his mother in his arms. In order to commemorate this loyal and righteous man, Duke Wen of Jin ordered that no fire should be made for cooking on the day of Jie Zi Pui's death, and cold food should be eaten, which was called the Cold Food Festival. Afterwards, as the wheel of history rolling, cold food festival finally pushed to expand to all parts of the country, in the process of the evolution of the annual festival, cold food quietly into the Qingming.

Ancient times

The origin of the Cold Food Festival should be the worship of fire in ancient times. Ancient people could not live without fire, but fire often caused great disasters to human beings, so the ancients believed that fire was a deity and had to be sacrificed to fire. The fire sacrificed by each family should be extinguished once a year. Then re-ignite the new fire, known as the fire. Change the fire, to hold a grand ceremony, the symbol of the grain god Jikji burned, known as human sacrifices. The custom has been passed down, and the festival of banning fire has been formed later.

Spring and Autumn Period

The Fire Ban Festival was later transformed into the Cold Food Festival to commemorate Jie Zi Tui, a famous and righteous minister of the state of Jin during the Spring and Autumn Period. Legend has it that during the exile of Duke Wen of Jin, Jie Zi Tui once cut his stock to feed him. When Duke Wen returned to his country and became the king, he forgot about Jie Zi Pui when he divided up his ministers. Jie Zi Pui did not want to boast of his achievements and compete for favor, so he took his mother to live in seclusion in Mianshan Mountain. Later, Duke Wen of Jin went to Mianshan to invite Jie Zi Pui in person, but Jie Zi Pui did not want to be an official and hid in the mountain. Duke Wen of Jin's men set fire to the mountain to force Jie Zi Pui to reveal himself, and Jie Zi Pui was burned to death under a big tree with his mother in his arms. In order to commemorate this loyal and righteous, people do not make fire to cook and eat cold food on the day of Jie Zi Tui's death, which is called the Cold Food Festival.

Wei and Jin Dynasties

During the Han Dynasty, Shanxi folk banned fire for a month to commemorate the event. During the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Cao, Emperor Wu of Wei, ordered the abolition of this custom. "Yin punishment order" in these words, heard Taiyuan, Shangdang, Yanmen winter solstice after hundred and five days are all cut off fire and cold food, cloud for the child push, so that the people shall not be cold food. Offenders, parents half a year of punishment, the main official hundred days of punishment, so that the long take away a month's salary. After the return of the Three Kingdoms to Jin, because of the Spring and Autumn Jin state with the same sound and the same word, and therefore particularly fond of the Jin palms, to commemorate the jiezitui ban on fire and cold food customs and resumed. However, the time was shortened to three days. At the same time, the Cold Food Festival to commemorate the mesotronic pushes the saying by extension, extended to all parts of the country, so the Cold Food Festival has become a national holiday, the Cold Food Festival ban on fire and cold food into the Han nation's * * * with the customs and habits.