The Origin of Cold Food Festival
The origin of the Cold Food Festival is Mianshan, Jiexiu, Shanxi, with a history of 2640 years (358 years earlier than the Dragon Boat Festival). According to the definition of "Cold Food Festival" in Ci Yuan and Ci Hai, Jiexiu lived in seclusion in Mianshan, Jiexiu during the Spring and Autumn Period after suffering and assisting the restoration of Jin Wengong Zhong Er.
Burn the mountain to force it out, and push the mother and son to hide and burn it. In order to mourn him, Jin Wengong ordered that fire and cold food be forbidden on the anniversary of his death (after the winter of November 150), thus forming a cold food festival. The Cold Food Festival originated from the record of burning mesons in Mianshan, Jiexiu.
It was first published in Huan Tan's New Theory, Volume XI, Deviation from the Topic of the Western Han Dynasty, and later published in the History of the Later Han Dynasty, the Biography of the Later Han Dynasty, Cao Caoming's Execution Order, Jin Shu Biography, Li Daoyuan's Notes on Water Classics, Fenshui Biography and Qi Yaomin's Notes in the Northern Wei Dynasty.
Historically, the two festivals, Cold Food and Qingming Festival, are similar, and with the passage of time, they merged into one festival. ""Don Yao Hui "Volume 82. It is clearly recorded in Vacation: "(Kaiyuan) February 11th: Cold food is distinct, and the fourth day is a holiday. February 15th, 13th year of Dali: From now on, there will be a five-day holiday.
March 9, the sixth year of Zhenyuan: cold food is clear, and it is appropriate to celebrate the month and day of Zhenyuan, giving three days before and after. Therefore, "The Grand View of China Traditional Culture" contains: "Roughly in the Tang Dynasty, the Cold Food Festival and Tomb-Sweeping Day became one."
Cold food festival culture
Historically, the activities of the Cold Food Festival have gradually evolved from commemorating mesons to promoting smoking and cold food, and then to worshipping ancestors. The concept of loyalty, filial piety and chastity contained in it completely conforms to the traditional moral core of China's ancient country's need for loyalty and filial piety, and has become an important carrier of family harmony and social stability.
In modern times, the Cold Food Festival has become an important form of remembering revolutionary martyrs and educating young people. At the same time, during the Cold Food Festival, compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan and overseas Chinese returned to their hometowns to worship their ancestors, which has become an important festival to inherit the ancestral culture of the Chinese nation and reflect national identity and cohesion.
Ancient ancestors insisted on banning smoking and cold food at the Cold Food Festival, expressing their eternal memory of Jiexiu, an ancient sage. There are dozens of cold foods and drinks, most of which have profound meanings. For example, there is a saying in Jiexiu custom that "snakes and rabbits will be rich", which means that the country is expected to enrich the people and strengthen the country; Sacrifice to eat noodles, Jiexiu dialect is to educate future generations to "miss" and not forget to introduce the public, virtuous and virtuous.
The Cold Food Festival symbolizes the pursuit of political clarity. There are many special tracks and chapters about festivals, tuijie and cold food festivals in Yuan Zaju, modern Beijing Opera, Jin Opera, modern Jin Opera and novels in Ming Dynasty. Since the Eastern Han Dynasty, legends, stories and inscriptions on mesons have also become important historical materials for the study of folk literature and epigraphy in Sanjin.
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