50 words on the origin of the Qingming Festival

Article 1: The Origin of Qingming Festival

During the Spring and Autumn Period, Duke Chong Er of Jin was in exile, and when he was starving and fainted on the way, his minister, Jie Zi Tui, cut off the meat of his thigh and gave it to him to eat. Later, Duke Chong Er became Duke Wen of Jin, and rewarded his loyal ministers forgetting about Jie Zi Pui. When Chong Er remembered him, Jie Zi Tui did not want to be an official anymore, and hid in Mian Mountain behind his mother's back. Chong Er set fire to the mountain to force him to come out, but the fire burned for three days and no one came out, so he went up the mountain to look for him and found that he and his mother had burned to death.

On the charred willow tree, Daxian found a sash with a poem in blood, "I cut my flesh to serve the king with all my heart, but I wish my lord would always be clear". So Chong Er designated the day he set fire to the mountain as the Cold Food Festival. On the next day of the next year, Chong Er climbed the mountain to pay homage to the old willow tree, and found that the old willow tree had come back to life, so he gave it the name of "Qingming Willow" and designated it as the Qingming Festival to pay homage to Jie Zi Tui and to encourage himself to be diligent and clear in administration.

Episode 2: Qingming Festival and Cold Food Festival

The traditional Qingming Festival in China began around the Zhou Dynasty, and has a history of more than 2,500 years. At first, Qingming was a very important festival, then, Qingming was close to the day of cold food, and cold food is the folk ban on fire to sweep the tomb, gradually, cold food and Qingming into one, and cold food has become the alias of Qingming.

Article 3: Why there is a Qingming Festival

The Qingming Festival is one of the twenty-four solar terms in the lunar calendar, at the intersection of mid-spring and late spring, 108 days after the winter solstice. The traditional Qingming Festival of the Han Chinese people began around the Zhou Dynasty, more than 2,500 years ago. Almanac: "Fifteen days after the vernal equinox, Doo refers to Ding, for the Qingming, when everything is clean and clear, cover when the gas is clear and bright, everything is obvious, so the name." Qingming, the temperature rises, it is a good time for spring plowing and planting, so there is a "Qingming before and after, planting melon point beans" said. The Qingming Festival is a festival of ancestor worship, and the traditional activity is tomb-sweeping.

Article 4: the origin of the Qingming Festival

It is said that the ancient emperors and generals began to "tomb sacrifice" of the ceremony, and then the folk also follow suit, in this day ancestor sweeping the tomb, and has been inherited by the Chinese people as a fixed custom. Originally, the Cold Food Festival and the Qingming Festival were two different festivals, but in the Tang Dynasty, the day of the Tomb Sweeping Festival was designated as the Cold Food Festival. The correct day for the Cold Food Festival is one hundred and five days after the winter solstice, around the time of the Qingming Festival, because of the similarity of the two days, so the Qingming Festival and the Cold Food Festival were combined into one day.