When is the Cold Food Festival in 2022 When is the Cold Food Festival
Many people only know the Qingming Festival, and do not Didn’t know we had a cold food festival.The Cold Food Festival usually occurs before and after the Qingming Festival, and the two are also closely related.Today, the Cold Food Festival has gradually faded out of our traditional festivals.In fact, the Cold Food Festival is a very commemorative festival.So, when is the 2022 Cold Food Festival?
What is the Cold Food Festival?
The Cold Food Festival, also known as the "No Smoking Festival", "Cold Festival" and "Hundred and Five Festivals", follows the ancient custom of changing fires.
In the early spring, the climate is dry, not only the fires that people save are easy to cause fires, but also the occurrence of spring thunder is easy to cause mountain fires.In this season, the ancients carried out grand sacrificial activities, extinguishing all the fires handed down from the previous year, that is, "forbidden fire", and then re-drilling and taking out new fires as the starting point of production and life in the new year, which is called "fire ban".Change the fire" or "Please make a new fire".There is a time interval between the fire ban and the change of fire.Historical data have different views such as three days, five days, and seven days.In Taiyuan and other places, it is more special to ban fire for one month.
In this period of no fire, people must prepare enough cooked food to survive the day with cold food, which is "cold food", hence the name "Cold Food Festival".Because the time is close to the Qingming Festival and is influenced by it, customs such as sacrificial sweeps, outings, swings, Cuju, pulling hooks, and egg-fighting have been gradually added in the development of later generations.It is called the largest festival of the people.
Origin of the Cold Food Festival
Ancient Times
The origin of the Cold Food Festival should be the worship of fire by humans in ancient times.The life of the ancients was inseparable from fire, but fire often caused great disasters to human beings, so the ancients believed that fire had gods and wanted to worship fire.The fires worshiped by each family are extinguished once a year.Then rekindle a new fire, which is called re-fire.When the fire is changed, a grand ancestor worship activity should be held, and the symbol of the god of grain will be burned, which is called human sacrifice.It became a common practice, and the later Fire Ban Festival was formed.
The Spring and Autumn Period
The Fire Prohibition Festival was later transformed into the Cold Food Festival to commemorate Jie Zitui, a famous minister of Jin during the Spring and Autumn Period.Legend has it that Jie Zitui cut his shares to satisfy his hunger when Duke Wen of Jin was in exile.After Duke Wen of Jin returned to the country as king, he forgot about Jie Zitui when he divided the ministers.Jie Zitui was reluctant to boast and compete for favor, so he and his mother lived in seclusion in Mianshan.Later, Duke Wen of Jin personally went to Mianshan to invite Jie Zitui, but Jie Zitui did not want to be an official and hid in the mountains.Jin Wengong set fire to the mountain, his original intention was to force Jie Zitui to reveal, but Jie Zitui was burned to death under a big tree holding his mother.In order to commemorate this loyal minister and righteous man, on the day of Jie Zitui’s death, no fire was used to cook, but cold food was eaten, which was called the Cold Food Festival.
What are the customs of the Cold Food Festival
The Cold Food Festival is also known as "No Smoking Festival", "Cold Festival" and "Hundred and Five Festivals".A day or two before the holiday.It is the beginning of the day for the festival, no smoking, only cold food.Because the time is close to the Qingming Festival and is influenced by it, customs such as sacrificial sweeps, outings, swings, Cuju, pulling hooks, and egg-fighting have been gradually added in the development of later generations.It is called the largest festival of the people.my country’s traditional Qingming Festival began around the Zhou Dynasty and has a history of more than 2,500 years.In ancient times, it was not as important as the Cold Food Festival the previous day, because the dates of the Qingming Festival and the Cold Food Festival were close together, and the folk gradually merged the customs of the two.During the Sui and Tang Dynasties (581-907), the Qingming Festival and the Cold Food Festival gradually merged into the same A festival has become the day of sweeping tombs to worship ancestors, that is, today’s Qingming Festival.
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