What is the cold food festival cold food festival origin

1, Cold Food Festival, a traditional Chinese festival, 105 days after the winter solstice in the summer calendar, one or two days before the Qingming Festival. Is the day of the first for the festival, banning fireworks, only eat cold food. And in the development of later generations gradually increased sweeping, trekking, swing, cuju, pulling hooks, cockfighting and other customs, cold food festival before and after the extension of more than two thousand years, once known as the first Chinese folk festival day. The Cold Food Festival is the only traditional Han Chinese festival named after a food custom.

2, Cold Food Festival origin, according to historical records: during the Spring and Autumn Period, the Prince of Jin, Chong Er to avoid disaster and exile for nineteen years, the minister Jie Zi Pui has always been around, never leave; even "cut shares of the king". Chong Er tried his best to rule and became a famous ruler "Duke Wen of Jin". However, 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 with him, Duke Wen of Jin ordered to set the mountain on fire, but Jie Zi Pui was determined not to come out of the mountain, and was eventually burned to death by the fire. Duke Wen of Jin remembered the loyalty of the will of the minister, buried in Mianshan, repair the temple, and ordered in the day of the death of Jie Zi push fire and cold food, in order to send condolences, which is the origin of the "Cold Food Festival".

3, before the early Qing dynasty Tang Ruowang calendar reform, the Qingming Festival is set in the cold food festival two days later; Tang's reform, the cold food festival is set in the day before the Qingming Festival. The modern twenty-four solar terms are based on Tang's calendar, so the Cold Food Festival is one day before the Qingming Festival.