Which traditional festival is Cold Food associated with?

Related to Qingming Festival.

Because of the winter solstice one hundred and five days that is the cold food festival, this time is generally in the Qingming Festival a day or two before, because the cold food festival and the Qingming Festival time together, the ancient official holiday will also be the two festivals holiday together, the two festivals of the customs began to merge, and no longer differentiate so clearly, the Qingming Festival and the cold food festival is gradually fused together. As a result, the ancient poems often mix Qingming with the cold food.

Origin of the Cold Food Festival

During the Spring and Autumn Period, the Prince of Jin, Chong Er, went into exile for nineteen years in order to escape from the disaster, and his minister, Jie Zi Pui, always followed him around and never abandoned him; he even cut off the king's stock. Chong Er tried his best to rule and became a famous ruler "Duke Wen of Jin". But Jie Zi Pui did not want to seek profit and fortune, he and his mother retired to Mianshan Mountain. In order to force him to come out of the mountain to meet him, Duke Wen of Jin ordered to set the mountain on fire, but Jie Zi Pui resolutely refused to come out of the mountain, and was eventually burned to death by the fire.

Duke Wen of Jin remembered the will of the loyal subjects, buried in Mianshan, repair the temple, and ordered the day of the death of Jie Zi Tui ban on fire and cold food, in order to send condolences, which is the origin of the "Cold Food Festival".