The origin of the cold food festival story legend

Chinese Cold Food Festival:

Chinese Cold Food Festival is an ancient festival in China, the main way of the festival is to pay homage to the dead, spring trekking and play and other activities. With the development of society, China's cold food festival has been fully integrated with the Qingming Festival, few people remember this festival.

According to historical records, 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 shares.

Chong Er became a famous ruler, Duke Wen of Jin. However, Jie Zi push did not want to seek profit and fortune, he and his mother retired to Mianshan Mountain, Jin Wendong in order to force him to come out of the mountain to meet and ordered to set fire to the mountain, Jie Zi push was determined not to come out of the mountain, and 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 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.

Before Tang Ruowang's calendar reform in the early Qing Dynasty, the Qingming Festival was set two days after the Cold Food Festival, and after Tang's reform, the Cold Food Festival was set one day before the Qingming Festival. In modern times, the twenty-four solar terms have been adopted from Tang's calendar, so that the Cold Food Festival falls one day before the Qingming Festival.

Features of the festival:

The Cold Food Festival is also known as the One Hundred and Fifth Day, due to the fact that it falls 105 days after the winter solstice. A poem by Su Zhe of the Song Dynasty, "New Fire", says: "Yesterday was one hundred and five days, and the old and the young were all cold food." Mei Yaochen of the Song Dynasty wrote "Cold Food Sentiments of Li Sheren during the Cold Food Festival in the Trip": "The wind and rain were rapid for one hundred and five days, and the clothes in the suburbs of spring were wet and slanting."

The fire ban on cold food extinguished the fires kept in winter. At Qingming, it was necessary to drill wood for fire again. A poem by Tang Dynasty poet Wang Biao reads, "Cold food flowers blossom in a thousand trees and snow, while fires come out in ten thousand homes and smoke at Qingming."

The Cold Food Festival originated in the Spring and Autumn Period, when Jie Zi Tui was burned on Mianshan Mountain in Jiexiu. Duke Wen of Jin ordered to ban fire and cold food on the anniversary of the death of Jie Zi Tui, so as to send condolences with cold food.

By the Tang Dynasty, it had already formed a national legal holiday, and later merged with the Qingming Festival, which is the earliest of the traditional Chinese festivals. Cold Food Festival is two thousand six hundred and forty years from now, during the period of various historical periods, the duration of the festival varies, there have been five days, a hundred and five days, January, three days and two, five, seven days, and finally became a day. By Jiexiu, Taiyuan County to all parts of the country.