Folk Tales about Qingming Festival

Folktales about Qingming Festival

Folktales about Qingming Festival, Qingming is at the very beginning of a very important festival, Qingming one, the temperature rises, it is the spring plowing and spring planting of a great time, so what are the interesting stories of the Qingming Festival, let's take a look at the folktales about the Qingming Festival.

1. Legend has it that one year during the Qingming Festival, Chen Taiping, a general of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, was pursued by the Qing soldiers to a piece of farmland.

At this time, a farmer disguised Chen Taiping as a farmer to plow the land with himself. When the Qing soldiers failed to capture him, they set up guard posts in nearby villages, checking everyone entering and leaving the village to prevent anyone from bringing Chen Taiping food to eat.

When he returned home, the farmer accidentally fell on the mugwort while pondering what to bring Chen Taiping to eat. At once, he had a plan. The farmer picked some mugwort, went home, washed it and boiled it, and then kneaded the green mugwort juice into the glutinous rice flour to make a green rice ball. Finally, the green-colored rice dumplings were placed in the green grass and mixed with the sentries checking at the entrance of the village.

Chen Taiping ate the green rice balls and felt that they were fragrant, sticky and not sticky, very delicious. After dark, he bypassed the Qing sentry checkpoints and returned to the barracks. Later, Chen Taiping taught this way of eating to all the generals, and with that, the custom of eating green dumplings spread.

2. Qingming is a traditional festival in China's folklore, and as early as the Tang Dynasty, it became a legal holiday.

Our people have the traditional virtue of "thinking of the source of water". According to the record of Mengliang Records: In ancient times, every Qingming Day, no matter the nobleman, or ordinary people, will go to the grave, sweep the tomb, ancestor worship, to express the respect and nostalgia for the ancestors. Sweeping tombs is the most important activity on this day. However, to this day, in some parts of China, the custom of eating cold rice on Qingming Festival is still retained.

According to legend, during the Spring and Autumn Period, the monarch of the state of Jin, Duke Xian of Jin, had a young and beautiful concubine, Li Ji. In order for her son Xi Qi to succeed the throne in the future, she killed the crown prince Shen Sheng with a poisonous plan.

Shen Sheng's younger brother, Chong Er, fled from Jin to escape Li Ji's persecution, and was humiliated along the way. Once, when Chong Er fainted from hunger, his minister, Jie Zi Pui, cut off a piece of meat from his own leg, cooked it over a fire, and offered it to Chong Er to eat. In this way, they were displaced and went through a lot of hardships, and finally returned to the state of Jin after 19 years, and Chong Er became the famous Duke Wen of Jin in history. He later became the famous Duke of Jin.

Later, when Chong Er became the king of the state, he rewarded all of his exiles, except Jie Zi Tui, who refused to be rewarded and took his mother to live in seclusion in Mian Mountain. But the fire killed Jie Zi Tui and his mother. In order to honor the memory of Jie Zi Tui, Duke Wen of Jin ordered that every year on this day, mountain fires are prohibited, and families can only eat raw and cold food.

3. According to legend, at the end of the Qin Dynasty, Liu Bang, the founder of the Han Dynasty, wanted to return to his hometown to pay homage to his parents after he unified the world, but due to the successive years of wars, the ancestral hall was surrounded by weeds and was in a state of disrepair. Although the ministry turned all over, but until dusk did not find Liu Bang's parents' tablet.

Finally, Liu Bang had no choice but to start asking the gods. He took out a piece of paper from his sleeve and tore it into many small pieces with his hands and squeezed it in his hands. Liu Bang prayed to the heavens and said, "I hope my father and mother are alive in heaven, and if there is a piece of paper that falls on which monument even the wind can't move, it is my father and mother's." After saying this, Liu Bang threw the piece of paper into the air.

Sure enough, there is a piece of paper fell on a broken tablet, no matter how the wind blowing can not be blown, Liu Bang ran over to take a closer look, the above is really engraved with a Liu character.

Traditional customs of the ancient Qingming Festival

1, "burning baggage"

The so-called "baggage", that is to say. The so-called "baggage" refers to the parcels of mail that are sent to the "netherworld" by the filial family members from the Yangshi world. In the south paper store to buy the so-called "baggage skin", written on the name of the deceased money, burn incense and candles, after the ceremony in the door of incineration. Imagine, now people can according to their own situation and schedule, agree with some of the old custom of sacrificing at home, may be able to greatly ease the congestion on the road every year, saving a lot of social resources.

2, Cold Food Festival

Cold Food Festival is the day before the Qingming Festival, the ancients often continue the activities of the Cold Food Festival to the Qingming, and over time, people will be the cold food and Qingming into one. Now, the Qingming Festival has replaced the Cold Food Festival, and the custom of worshipping Jie Zi Tui has become the custom of sweeping graves at Qingming. Today, in the Qingming Festival customs, inherited seems to be only sweeping the tomb, in fact, the Qingming Festival, there are some "old talk" it.

3, wear willow

In the past, an important part of the tomb sweeping is to wear willow. "The first thing you need to do is to wear a willow, and then turn into a yellow dog after you die. Qingming willow culture, there is a willow in the grave, there are branches inserted in front of the door, there will be willow inserted in the sedan chair or children's lapel, because the willow tree has a strong vitality. Imagine, today's grave if people have the habit of planting trees in the willow, year after year, I do not know how many mountains to dye green.

The folk tale of Qingming Festival 2

According to legend, during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, the consort of Duke Xian of Jin, Li Ji, in order to let her son Xi Qi succeeded to the throne, set up a poisonous plan to murder the crown prince Shen Sheng, who was forced to commit suicide.

Shen Sheng's younger brother, Chong Er, went into exile to avoid the disaster. During his exile, Chong Er suffered a lot of humiliation. Most of the ministers who followed him went their separate ways one after another. There were only a few loyal men left who followed him all the way. One of them was called Jie Zi Tui (介子推).

Once, Chong Er was so tired and hungry in a deserted place that he could no longer stand up and fainted from hunger. In order to save Chong Er, Jie Zi Tui cut off a piece of meat from his own leg and cooked a bowl of meat soup for the prince to drink, and Chong Er gradually recovered his spirit.

Nineteen years later, Chong Er returned to his country and became the monarch, the Duke Wen of Jin, one of the famous Five Hegemons of the Spring and Autumn Period.

When Duke Wen came to power, he rewarded those who had suffered with him, but forgot about Jie Zitui. Many people were angry with Jie Zi Tui and urged him to face the king to ask for rewards. However, Jie Zi push despised to ask for rewards. When Duke Wen of Jin heard about this, he was so ashamed that he immediately sent someone to invite Jie Zi push to the court to be rewarded.

However, after several trips, Jie Zi Tui did not come. The Duke of Jin had to go and ask him himself. However, when Duke Wen arrived at Jie Zi Tui's house, the door was closed. Jie Zi Tui did not want to see him, and had already carried his mother to hide in Mianshan Mountain (southeast of present-day Jiexiu County, Shanxi Province). The Duke of Jin had his imperial army search on Mianshan Mountain, but it was so high and dense that it was not easy to find him.

So, someone came up with the idea that it would be better to set fire to the mountain, lighting fires on three sides, leaving one side, and when the fire started, Jie Zi Tui would come out on his own. What is expected after the fire is extinguished, after all, do not see mesotronic pushed out. The people went up the mountain to see, meson push mother and son leaning against a big charred willow tree has died.

The Duke of Jin Wen looked at the body of the mother and son of Jie Zidui and wept for a while, and then buried the remains. Accidentally found that mesoteric push spine blocked a willow tree hole, the hole seems to have something. I was surprised to find that there was something in the hole. I took out a look and it turned out to be a piece of lapel, which was inscribed with a poem in blood:

Cutting off my flesh to serve the king, but I wish that my lord would always be clear.

The ghosts under the willow will never be seen, but they will be like a counselor to the king.

If your lord has me in his heart, he will always think of himself when he remembers me.

I have no shame in the nine springs of my heart, and I am diligent and clear in my administration.

In honor of Jie Zi Tui, Duke Wen of Jin ordered that this day be designated as the Cold Food Festival.

The next year, Duke Wen of Jin led his ministers to climb the mountain to pay homage, and found that the old willow had risen from the dead. He gave the old willow the name of Qingming Willow and told the world to designate the day after the Cold Food Festival as the Qingming Festival.

The origin of Qingming Festival is thanksgiving, and it is this spirit of thanksgiving that we follow when we go to the graves of our ancestors on Qingming Festival. However, China's Qingming Festival on gratitude, as if focused on those dead ancestors, but not to the living, to their own grace of people, seems to be more, more important thanks to the dilution.

A society full of gratitude, a nation that understands its own hardships, an individual who understands the bounty can cherish the reality, value history, honor others, and respect public morality. Thanksgiving Day, in China is the Qingming Festival, we are grateful for the passing of history and people at the same time, we should be more grateful to those who are beneficial to our survival and development.

Folktales about Qingming Festival 3

Qingming Festival Legendary Stories of Liu Bang's Ancestor Sacrifice

At the end of the Qin Dynasty, Liu Bang finally won the world by defeating the overlord.

When Liu Bang returned to his hometown, he wanted to go to the graves of his parents to pay his respects, but he could not find his parents' graves because of the years of war, which had made a grave full of weeds.

Liu Bang was very sad, although his subordinates also helped him to turn over all the tombstones, but still could not find his parents' graves until dusk.

Finally, Liu Bang took out the paper from his sleeve, tore it into many small pieces, pinched it tightly in his hand, and then prayed to the heavens, saying, "My parents are alive in heaven, I will take these pieces of paper and throw them into the air, and if the pieces of paper fall in a place where the wind does not move them, it is the graves of my parents."

After Liu Bang threw the pieces of paper into the air, there is a piece of paper fell on a tomb, no matter how the wind blowing can not blow, Liu Bang ran over to take a closer look at the fuzzy gravestone, and really saw his parents' names engraved on it.

Later, the people, like Liu Bang, went to their ancestors' graves every year on the Ching Ming Festival, and used small pieces of earth to press a few pieces of paper on the graves to show that the graves were cleaned.