When is the 2022 Cold Food Festival?
When is the 2022 Cold Food Festival?
In 2022, the Cold Food Festival will be held on April 4, the fourth day of the third lunar month, Monday. The Cold Food Festival is from summer to the future 105, one or two days before Tomb-Sweeping Day.
Cold Food Festival, a traditional festival in China. When the first day of the day is a holiday, smoking is forbidden and only cold food is eaten. In the development of later generations, the customs of sweeping, climbing, swinging, cuju, crochet and cockfighting were gradually increased. The Cold Food Festival lasted for more than 2,000 years and was once called the largest folk festival in China. Cold Food Festival is the only traditional festival of Han nationality named after food customs.
Is the Cold Food Festival before Tomb-Sweeping Day or after Tomb-Sweeping Day?
The Cold Food Festival was before Tomb-Sweeping Day.
Cold Food Festival and Tomb-Sweeping Day are often mentioned. Generally speaking, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Cold Food Festival are not the same festival. Tomb-Sweeping Day held the Cold Food Festival the day before, but because it is too close to Tomb-Sweeping Day, I don't know why. Two festivals are mixed together and thought to be the same. Tomb-Sweeping Day is one of the 24 solar terms, which existed long before cold food. Tomb-Sweeping Day originally meant beautiful spring, beautiful spring and fresh everything, so it was described as Tomb-Sweeping Day. At the vernal equinox, the longitude of the sun is 0 degrees, and Tomb-Sweeping Day represents the longitude of the sun as 15 degrees. The days will get longer and longer, the sunshine will get warmer and warmer, which is more and more conducive to the growth of agricultural plants. This is a rich and fresh and beautiful scene in spring. The cold food festival is made up of.
Traditional customs of cold food festival
Cooking is forbidden (on some days)
The Cold Food Festival was also called "No Smoking Festival" in ancient times. Everyone is forbidden to make a fire and eat cold food.
Worship ancestors
The Cold Food Festival was regarded as a "wild sacrifice" from the Southern and Northern Dynasties to the Tang Dynasty. In the Tang Dynasty, it was included in the Book of Rites of Kaiyuan (volume 87), "Worship and Sweep below the Governors" (cold food worship and sweep attached), and became one of the auspicious gifts officially recognized and advocated.
prescribe a diet
Cold food includes cold porridge, cold noodles, cold paste, green rice and porridge. Cold food offerings include noodles, snakes and rabbits, jujube cakes, refined rye, immortals, etc. There are dozens of drinks, such as spring wine, fresh tea, clear spring and sweet water.
Chuanliuzhi
The symbol of the vitamin cold food festival was originally to miss Jie Zhi's pursuit of political clarity.
spring outing
Also known as spring outing, Sheng Xing was born in Tang and Song Dynasties. Song Lizhi's words "What I saw in the East Valley" say: "I swept things, and then I went home happily with my brother, wife, relatives and deeds."
sway
Swing was originally a female amusement in the ancient cold food festival. Wang Renyu's "Kaiyuan Tianbao Legacy" in the Five Dynasties recorded that "the Tianbao Palace Mid-solstice Cold Food Festival actually erected a swing, which made the wives and concubines in the palace laugh and thought it was a feast.
Coarse ball
Popular in the Tang Dynasty, the Song Dynasty's "Literature General Examination" contained: "Cuju, Gai began in the Tang Dynasty. Plant two bamboos, several feet high, and wrap the net on the net to measure the ball for the door. The ball is divided into friends and friends, and the game wins from the angle.
recite/chant poems
During the Cold Food Festival, literati or homesick relatives, or borrowing scenery, have feelings, feelings, inspirations, poems and chanters.