Qingming Festival is also called Cold Food Festival, right? What are the customs?
The Qingming Festival and the Cold Food Festival are not the same festival.Qingming Festival is a traditional Chinese festival.On this day, many wanderers go home to worship their ancestors and sweep the tombs.It is very solemn.This is similar to the ancient Cold Food Festival, but there are essential differences between the two.Two days after the Cold Food Festival, so it’s not the same.
Origin of Qingming Festival and Cold Food Festival
Qingming Festival, also known as Outing Festival, Xingqing Festival, March Festival, Ancestor Worship Festival, etc.Difference:Qingming Festival is an ancient festival of the Chinese nation.It is not only a solemn festival to sweep graves and worship ancestors, but also a joyous festival for people to get close to nature, go out for a walk, and enjoy the fun of spring.The Cold Food Festival, a traditional Chinese festival, falls on the 105th day after the winter solstice in the summer calendar and one or two days before the Qingming Festival.It is the beginning of the day for the festival, no smoking, only cold food.
The origin of the Cold Food Festival, according to historical records:During the Spring and Autumn Period, Chong’er, the son of Jin State, went into exile for 19 years to avoid the turmoil.sir".Chong’er made great efforts to manage and became a famous emperor of a generation "Jin Wen Gong".But Jie Zitui did not seek benefits, so he and his mother went into hiding in Mianshan.Duke Wen of Jin ordered him to set fire to the mountain in order to force him to come out of the mountain to meet.Duke Wen of Jin was grateful for the loyalty of his loyal ministers, buried him in Mianshan, built a shrine and built a temple, and ordered the ban on fire and cold food on the day of Jie Zitui’s death to express his condolences.This is the origin of the "Cold Food Festival".
The difference between the Qingming Festival and the Cold Food Festival
1.Different functions
When the Qingming Festival comes, the Cold Food Festival also follows.Now, some people confuse Cold Food with Qingming, which is actually wrong.Because one of the two is a farming solar term and the other is a folk festival, they are not the same thing.Qingming is one of the twenty-four solar terms in the Chinese lunar calendar, usually around the fourth or fifth day of the fourth month of the Gregorian calendar.Cold Food is a folk festival that originated in the Spring and Autumn Period, the story of Jie Zhi Tuining, a minister of Duke Wen of Jin in the Spring and Autumn Period, who was burned to death on Mianshan Mountain in Jiexiu, Shanxi, and refused to go down the mountain to receive the seal.One is the solar term for farming, the other is the allusions and folk customs, which are two different things; but the two festivals are one or two days apart, or even overlap on one day, so there is a saying that Qingming and cold food are called together.
2.Different cultural connotations
Before the Tang Dynasty, Hanshi and Qingming were two consecutive festivals with different themes.One yang, one breath and one life, the two have a close cooperation relationship.Prohibition of fire is for the sake of fire, and sacrifice to death is for the sake of life.This is the inner cultural relationship between Cold Food and Qingming.During the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, the court had fixed the custom of folk tomb-sweeping in the form of a decree on the Cold Food Festival before the Qingming Festival.Since Cold Food and Qingming are closely related in time, the custom of the Cold Food Festival was related to Qingming very early, and the tomb-sweeping was also postponed by Cold Food.To Qingming.
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