What are the origins and customs of the Cold Food Festival?

Cold Food Festival is the only traditional festival of Han nationality named after food customs. Later, because cold food was close to Qingming, people combined cold food with Qingming before crossing Tomb-Sweeping Day. So what are the origins and customs of the Cold Food Festival?

1, origin: The origin of the Cold Food Festival is related to meson push. It is said that when Jin Wengong was exiled to other countries, his servant meson pushed the meat on his thigh to Jin Wengong to eat, just to fill his stomach. Later, Jin Gong returned to China to be a monarch and wanted to raise Jiexiu. Jiexiu refused and took his mother to the mountains. In order to force Jiexiu to accept his reward, Jin Wengong released Yamakaji. Unexpectedly, Jie tui and his mother were burned to death. Jin Wengong regretted it, so he ordered that on the day Jiexiu was killed, no fire was allowed to cook and only cold food was allowed.

2. The custom of Cold Food Festival is: When the first day of the day is a festival, no smoking is allowed, only cold food is eaten. In the development of later generations, the customs of sweeping, climbing, swinging, cuju, crochet and cockfighting were gradually increased. The Cold Food Festival lasted for more than 2,000 years and was once called the largest folk festival.

That's all about the origin and customs of the Cold Food Festival.