What is the origin of the Cold Food Festival

Festivals, refers to the important days in life that are worth remembering. It is a kind of folk culture created by the people of the world in order to adapt to the needs of production and life **** with the world's folk culture is an important part of the world's folk culture. The following is what I organize the origin of the Cold Food Festival, welcome to learn and reference, I hope to help you.

There are different accounts of the origin of the Cold Food Festival. The most widely circulated folk saying is to commemorate the Spring and Autumn Period Jin . Jie Zi Tui.

During the Spring and Autumn Period, the Prince of the State of Jin, Chong Er, fled the country and lived a hard life, and Jie Zi Pui, who followed him, did not hesitate to cut off a piece of meat from his own leg to make him hungry. Later, when Chong Er returned to Jin, he became the king of the state (i.e. Duke Wen of Jin) and rewarded his meritorious officials. Only Jie Zi Tui refused to accept the reward. He took his mother to live in seclusion in Mianshan Mountain and refused to come out. Duke Wen of Jin had no choice but to set fire to the mountain to force him to come down. Jie Zi push mother and son would rather be burnt to death than to come out. In order to commemorate Jie Zi Tui, Duke Wen of Jin ordered to rename Mian Shan as Jie Shan, and to build a temple and a monument. At the same time, he also ordered that on the day of Jie Zi Tui's death, "cold food and fire ban", the whole country is not allowed to burn the fire to cook food, can only eat dry food and cold food.

In ancient times, people were very respectful of Jie Zi Tui's temperament, "cold food ban on fire" custom, was passed down to later generations, the formation of the Cold Food Festival, a special commemorative holiday.

Folklore experts said that before the Han Dynasty, the cold food festival ban on fire for a longer period of time, to a month. A whole month to eat cold food, on the body is really unfavorable, the Han Dynasty changed to 3 days.

After the cold food festival from the beginning of the Jin Dynasty, the continuation of a number of years, in the middle of a strict ban on the practice of cold food, such as Cao Cao in the Three Kingdoms period. But the time is not long, "cold food ban fire" wind and in the folk spontaneous rise. From the pre-Qin to the North and South Dynasties, the Cold Food Festival was regarded as a major festival. In the Tang Dynasty, it was still celebrated as a national festival, and many literati wrote poems about it.

Experts said that the cold food festival is the day before the Qingming Festival, the ancients often continue the activities of the cold food festival to Qingming, over time, people will be cold food and Qingming into one. After the late Tang and Song dynasties, the custom of forbidding fire and cold food became more and more diluted and declined. By the Yuan Dynasty, many people basically no longer follow this custom. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the cold food festival is no longer prohibited fire, and do not require people to eat cold.

Zhao Zhiheng said, the cold food festival ban on fire cold food customs, along with the cold food festival itself, in most parts of China slowly disappeared. Or perhaps the Cold Food Festival became part of the Qingming Festival. But know and understand this festival, help people dig China's traditional festivals of cultural and folk connotation, very meaningful.