Legendary story of Qingming Festival. (100 words)

The Qingming Festival was first a farming festival, when there was another festival which was the Cold Food Festival in honor of Duke Wen of Jin and the wise minister Jie Zi Tui in the Spring and Autumn Period. At that time, there was civil unrest within the court, and the half-brother of the crown prince of Jin tried to get rid of him and take the throne of the emperor. In order to escape being victimized, he ended up escaping from the palace and wandering around, still taking his most loyal vassal, Jie Zi Pui, and others with him.

On a certain day, the crown prince and Jie Zi push and others got lost in the mountains, and appeared to the extent of food deprivation, Jie Zi push without hesitation cut off his own thigh meat for everyone to cook soup to drink, temporary relief of hunger, the crown prince and other ministers are very touched. This incident has been put in the heart of the crown prince of Jin. 19 years later, he returned to the state of Jin and became the king of a country. He was called Duke Wen of Jin. At that time, many ministers who helped the Duke of Jin went to the palace to be rewarded, but did not see Jie Zi Tui come.

At that time, Jie Zi push didn't want to go, moreover, I didn't expect Jie Zi push with his old mother quietly returned to his hometown, living in seclusion in the mountains. Duke Wen of Jin was very uncomfortable, so he went to the mountains to invite Jie Zi push. But Jie Zi Tui did not want to go back to be rewarded. In the end, Duke Wen thought of a way to force Jie Zi Tui to come out by burning the mountain, but the fire was too big and Jie Zi Tui's mother was accidentally burned to death.

Regretful Duke Wen of Jin apologized, very sad, and decided to bury his mother under a willow tree, called "mesa", on the day of death, people are not allowed to eat over a fire, only cold food, to commemorate the mesa, designated as "Cold Food Festival". ". From then on the mesa mountain of the meson pushed the grave on this day will be on time to sweep the tomb to worship meson pushed.

So this day Cold Food Festival is also designated as tomb-sweeping, Cold Food Festival and Qingming Festival originally belonged to two festivals. In the Tang Dynasty, the two festivals were very similar, so they were designated as the same day as the Qingming Festival and the Cold Food Festival, and the custom of sweeping the graves on the Qingming Festival appeared.