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What is the classic story of Tomb-Sweeping Day and Tomb-Sweeping Day?

1, it rains in succession during the Qingming Festival, and pedestrians on the road want to die. Excuse me, where is the restaurant? The shepherd boy pointed to Xinghua Village. This is a poem about Tomb-Sweeping Day written by Du Mu, a poet in the Tang Dynasty. Tomb-Sweeping Day is one of the 24 solar terms and a traditional folk festival. Whenever we go to Tomb-Sweeping Day, people will go for a walk in the grave and plant trees. Speaking of Tomb-Sweeping Day, we have to start with the story of meson push.

2. According to legend, during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Zhong Er wandered abroad for 19 years, and meson Tui followed him all the time, making great contributions. Zhong Er returned to China and became a monarch. This is Jin Wengong, one of the famous five tyrants in the Spring and Autumn Period. Jin Wengong wants to be an official for meson, but meson doesn't want to be one. He has been hiding behind his mother's back in Mianshan. Jin Wengong asked his body guard to search Mianshan, but he couldn't find it. So, someone had an idea, saying, it is better to let Yamakaji go, set fire on three sides, leave one side, burn it and the meson will come out. Jin Wengong ordered the promotion of Yamakaji. Unexpectedly, the fire burned for three days and nights. After the fire was put out, the meson was not pushed out after all. Looking up the mountain, the mother and son were holding a charred willow tree and were dead. Jin Wengong looked at Jiexiu's body and cried for a while, then buried it. In order to commemorate Jiexiu, Jin Wengong ordered Mianshan to be changed to Jiexiu Mountain, and an ancestral temple was built on the mountain, and the day when Yamakaji was released to China was designated as the Cold Food Festival, telling the whole country that it was forbidden to set off fireworks and firecrackers on this day every year, and only cold food was eaten.

3. Since then, the people of the State of Jin have been able to live and work in peace and contentment, and they miss this behavior of making meritorious deeds without seeking wealth. On the day of his death, it is forbidden to set off fireworks in memory of him. It is also made of flour and jujube paste, kneaded into the shape of a swallow, strung with willow branches, and inserted in the door to summon his soul. This thing is called "Tuiyan". Since then, cold food and Qingming have become grand festivals for the people of the whole country. Whenever there is cold food, people don't make a fire to cook, but only eat cold food. In the north, people only eat cold food prepared in advance, such as jujube cakes and wheat cakes. In the south, there are mostly green balls and glutinous rice and sugar lotus roots. Every time I go to Tomb-Sweeping Day, people put wicker in a circle and put wicker branches in front of the house to show their memory.