What did you eat at the ancient Cold Food Festival? So you ate these!

Cold Food Festival is a very traditional festival in China, and it has a long history since ancient times. So do you know everything about what to eat at the ancient cold food festival? What's the difference between the ancient Cold Food Festival and now?

The customs of the Cold Food Festival include going to the grave, outing, cockfighting, swinging, playing with carpets, pulling hooks (tug of war) and so on. Among them, the custom of going to the grave is very old. In the past, the Spring Festival in China was on the Cold Food Festival, but it was later changed to Tomb-Sweeping Day. However, the Korean side still retains the tradition of holding the Spring Festival at the Cold Food Festival. Cold Food Festival is an important folk festival in Shanxi in spring. Mianshan Mountain in Jiexiu, Shanxi is known as the hometown of cold food and Qingming culture in China, and grand cold food and Qingming sacrifice activities are held every year.

The Cold Food Festival is celebrated by steaming cold swallows. Flour is kneaded into swallows, songbirds, animals, melons and fruits, flowers, etc. The steamed swallows are colored, inserted into the needles of jujube trees, decorated indoors and given as gifts.

Cold food festival, from the surface of the word cold food, is a day to eat cold food. So, does the Cold Food Festival pay attention to what cold food to eat? What do people usually eat on this day? In Tomb-Sweeping Day, different places have different seasonal foods. Hundreds of thousands of years have passed, and the sacrificial significance of some foods has gradually faded. If you travel to these places during your stay in Tomb-Sweeping Day, you may have a chance to have a taste.

The traditional Tomb-Sweeping Day in China began in the Zhou Dynasty and has a history of more than 2,500 years. In ancient times, it was not as important as the Cold Food Festival the day before, because the dates of Tomb-Sweeping Day and the Cold Food Festival were close, and the people gradually merged their customs. In the Sui and Tang Dynasties (58 1 to 907), Tomb-Sweeping Day and Cold Food Festival gradually merged into the same festival, which became the day to visit graves and worship ancestors, that is, today's Tomb-Sweeping Day.

In the old days, the grave-sweeping sacrifice in Dinghai had a special feature. Many dishes are cold dishes, as well as Qingming special snacks, green cakes and striped cakes, which can be eaten cold. After the ceremony, give money to the children who look after the grave (cakes are also green cakes, which are round or diamond in shape). After going to the grave, I have to cook Qingming soup rice when I go home.

The custom of people sweeping graves in Taiwan Province Province can be roughly divided into two types: one is sweeping graves in general, with simple rituals and sacrifices, and most of them are just rice cakes, cakes and cakes; The second is to repair the ancestral graves, and the sacrifices are also quite grand. Sacrifice generally includes all kinds of sacrifices, twelve kinds of vegetables, cakes and so on. When sweeping the grave, be sure to place tomb paper around the grave. There are small stones on every piece of paper, and a pile must be placed on the tombstone. This ceremony, commonly known as hanging paper, is money for ancestors. If it is to repair the tomb, that is, to repair the ancestral grave, the whole family gathers in front of the grave to eat red eggs, and the eggshells are scattered on the cemetery, which contains the auspicious meaning of metabolism and endless life. In rural areas of Taiwan Province Province, a group of children visited graves and then begged for money. The more people come, the more developed the family will be in the future, and the host will be willing to give money or money to the children.