What is the significance of the Cold Food Festival?

The significance of the Cold Food Festival includes promoting the concern for the country and the people, loyalty, honesty and integrity to the monarch and patriotism, and the political ambition of "not talking about political achievements" and dedication to success and retirement. It is the moral standard of ancient China society and the link between social stability and national unity. Cold food represents people's praise for loyalty, integrity and political clarity for thousands of years.

Introduction of Cold Food Festival

The Cold Food Festival is a festival that begins in a day. You don't smoke, but only eat cold food. In the development of later generations, there have been customs such as sweeping, hiking, swinging, cuju, holding hooks and fighting cocks. Gradually added. The Cold Food Festival lasted for more than 2000 years. It was once known as the largest folk festival in China, and it was also the only festival named after the dietary customs among the traditional festivals of the Han nationality.

The Cold Food Festival originated from the burning of mesons in Mianshan, Jiexiu during the Spring and Autumn Period. Jin Wengong ordered a ban on fire and cold food on the anniversary of the child's death, and sent grief with cold food. By the time of the Tang Dynasty, a national statutory festival had been formed, and then it merged with Tomb-Sweeping Day, the earliest traditional festival in China.

Cold food includes cold porridge, cold noodles, cold paste, green rice and steamed rice. Cold food includes noodles, snake rabbit, jujube cake, rye, Shen and so on. There are dozens of drinks such as spring wine, fresh tea, clear spring and sweet water. There is a saying that "snakes and rabbits will be rich", which means that we hope the people will be rich and the country will be strong.