Who is the Cold Food Festival in honor of

The Cold Food Festival is a festival set up by Duke Chong Er of Jin during the Spring and Autumn Period to honor the loyal minister Jie Zi Pui.

According to historical records, during the Spring and Autumn Period, the Duke 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 his share". Chong Er tried his best to rule and became a famous ruler "Duke Wen of Jin". However, Jie Zi Tui 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 Tui resolutely refused to come out of the mountain, and was eventually burned to death by the fire. Duke Wen of Jin, remembering the loyalty of his will, buried in Mianshan, to build a temple, and ordered 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".

Customs of the Cold Food Festival:

1, smoke-free cold food: Cold Food Festival in ancient times, also known as the "No Smoking Festival", the family banned the fire, all eat cold food. But because of the country's people after pity for the sage's obsession, from the Eastern Han Dynasty to the North and South Dynasties repeatedly banned repeatedly Xing, the Tang Dynasty, the Royal endorsement and participation.

2, worship sweeping ancestor: cold food festival tomb sweeping ancestor in the North and South Dynasties to the Tang Dynasty was regarded as a "wild sacrifice". Tang Dynasty into the "Kaiyuan Rites" "Volume 87 - Wang Gong following the worship sweep (cold food worship sweep attached)" in the official recognition and advocacy of one of the auspicious rituals. Later, it evolved into the royal tomb worship; the government sacrificed to the Confucius Temple and the sages; and the people went to their graves. When a family or a clan to the ancestors' graves, to pay tribute, add soil, hanging paper money, and then will be pushed Yan, snake pan rabbit scattered on the top of the grave rolled down, with a willow branch or pimple needle threaded, placed in the room in a high place, intended to dip the ancestor's virtue and zephyr.

3, cold food and drink: cold food food food, including cold food porridge, cold food noodles, cold food syrup, green rice and molasses, etc.; cold food offerings have noodles Yan, Snake Plate rabbit, jujube cake, fine barley, God, etc.; drinks have spring wine, new tea, spring water and dozens of kinds of sweet water. Most of them have profound meanings, such as sacrificial food snake pan rabbit, there is a "snake pan rabbit, must be rich," said, meaning to look forward to the people of the rich and strong; Zi push Yan, to take the jiexiu dialect "Niannian" not forgetting the jiexu high wind and bright ... ...