The Cold Food Festival is associated with which famous person from ancient times?

The Cold Food Festival is related to Jie Zi Tui during the Spring and Autumn Period.

Cold Food Festival allusion , according to historical records: the Spring and Autumn Period, the Prince of the State of Jin, Chong Er in order to avoid the chaos and exile for nineteen years, the minister Jie Zi Pui has always been followed around, never leave; even "cut shares of the king". Chong'er was able to govern and became a famous ruler "Duke Wen of Jin". But Jie Zi Pui did not seek profit and fortune, and his mother retired to Mianshan Mountain, Duke Wen of Jin in order to force him to come out of the mountain to meet and ordered to set fire to the mountain, Jie Zi Pui resolutely do not come out of the mountain, and eventually burned to death. Duke Wen of Jin remembered the loyalty of his will, buried in Mianshan, repair the 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".

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Cold Food Festival: 105 days after the winter solstice in the summer calendar, one or two days before the Qingming Festival. It was the first day of the festival when fireworks were forbidden and only cold food was eaten. 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 2,000 years, once known as the first Chinese folk festival. The Cold Food Festival is the only one of the traditional Han Chinese festivals to be named after a food custom.

Before the Tang Ruowang calendar reform in the early Qing Dynasty, the Qingming Festival was set two days after the Cold Food Festival; 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 the Cold Food Festival falls one day before the Qingming Festival.

From the Spring and Autumn Period to the present day, the Cold Food Festival has a history of more than 2,600 years. Shanxi, China, where the story takes place, has designated the Cold Food Festival as the day before the Qingming Festival, and the customs of eating cold food, offering sacrifices, and trekking on the green on this day have been passed down and accepted throughout the country. Along with the passage of time, the Cold Food Festival has quietly integrated into the Qingming Festival, and the feudal idea of foolish loyalty represented by Jie Zi Tui has also been sunk into the river of history, but the people's praise for loyalty, honesty, and political clarity represented by the Cold Food is the same as in the past thousand years.