What is the Cold Food Festival called and what are the customs?
The Cold Food Festival is also known as the "No-smoking Festival" ", "Cold Festival", "Hundred and Five Festivals", one hundred and five days after the winter solstice in the summer calendar, and one or two days before the Qingming Festival.The ancients used different trees to drill fires due to different seasons, and there was a custom of changing the seasons to change the fires.And every time the fire is changed, it is necessary to exchange for a new fire.
Cold Food Festival What are the customs
Ancestor worship
The Hanshi Festival tomb-sweeping and ancestor worship was regarded as a "wild sacrifice" before the Southern and Northern Dynasties arrived in the Tang Dynasty.In the Tang Dynasty, it was included in the "Kaiyuan Rites" "Volume 87:Maharajas and Praises (Han Shi Bai Sweeps Attached)", and became one of the auspicious rituals officially recognized and advocated.
Peach Blossom Scenery
Laterally, it evolved into a royal sacrificial mausoleum; official government sacrificing Confucian temples and ancestors; At that time, a family or a clan would go to the ancestors’ graves to make sacrifices, add soil, and hang paper money.Then they would scatter Zituiyan and snake-coiled rabbits on the top of the tomb and roll them down, pierce them with willow branches or needles, and place them high in the house.Intentional ancestor Deze.
Outing
Outing is also called Tachun, which flourished in the Tang and Song Dynasties.Song Li Zhiyan’s "Donggu Seeing" contains:"I did a good job, and then I visited with my brothers, wives, relatives, and deeds, and returned with joy."
Scenic Bridges and Flowing Water
The Ming Dynasty "Emperor’s Scenery Brief" records the Beijing-effect outing scene as:"On the day of Sui (Cold Food) and Qingming, all people go out for an outing, spectators, riders, walkers, etc.There are tens of thousands of tourists." It can be said that it is extremely prosperous.
The relationship and difference between the Cold Food Festival and the Qingming Festival
The time relationship between the "Qingming Festival" and the "Cold Food Festival" in ancient times was:the day before the Qingming Festival was the "Cold Food Festival", Now the two have traditionally merged into one.
The Qingming Festival began around the Zhou Dynasty and has a history of more than 2,500 years.Qingming is one of the twenty-four solar terms in my country’s lunar calendar.During this season, the rainfall increases, and the earth presents the image of spring and Jingming.It is said that the Qingming Festival originated from the "tomb sacrifice" ceremony of the ancient emperors and generals.
In ancient times, the day before the Qingming Festival was the "Cold Food Festival".According to legend, in the Spring and Autumn Period, Duke Wen of Jin was in distress, and Jie Zitui cut his own flesh to feed him.Living in seclusion in Mianshan, Duke Wen of Jin set fire to the mountain to force Jie Zitui out, but he mistakenly burned Jie Zitui to death.Duke Wen of Jin was very remorseful and ordered a fire ban from now on.Because of the prohibition of fire, people can only eat cold food on this day, so it is called "cold food".Later, Qingming and cold food were gradually combined into one, and it has become a traditional festival of the Chinese nation.
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