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Is Tomb-Sweeping Day also called Cold Food Festival? Is Tomb-Sweeping Day also called Cold Food Festival? )

1. Tomb-Sweeping Day is also called Cold Food Festival, which is the day before Tomb-Sweeping Day. The ancients often extended the activities of the Cold Food Festival to Qingming. Over time, people combine cold food with Qingming.

2. Now Tomb-Sweeping Day has replaced the Cold Food Festival, and the custom of worshipping mesons has become the custom of sweeping graves in Tomb-Sweeping Day.

3. The traditional Tomb-Sweeping Day in China began in the Zhou Dynasty and has a history of more than 2,500 years.

Tomb-Sweeping Day was a very important solar term from the beginning. As soon as Tomb-Sweeping Day arrives, the temperature rises, which is a good season for spring ploughing and planting, so there is a saying that "melons and beans are planted before and after Qingming Festival".

5. Agricultural proverb "Planting trees is never clear".

6. Later, because the days of Qingming and cold food were close, cold food was the day when people banned fire from sweeping graves. Gradually, cold food and Qingming became one, and cold food became another name for Qingming and also became a custom in Qingming period. Tomb-Sweeping Day, no fireworks, only cold food.