Is there a cold food festival in the name of the Qingming Festival, and why is the Qingming Festival

The origin of the Qingming Festival, it is said that it began in the ancient emperors and generals of the "tomb sacrifice" ceremony, and later the folk also followed suit, on this day to worship the ancestors and sweep the tomb, the successive dynasties have become a fixed custom of the Chinese nation.

The name "Qingming Festival" also comes from the Qingming solar term in the 24 solar terms of the Chinese lunar calendar. The 108th day after the winter solstice is the Qingming solar term. There are 15 days of Qingming solar terms.

As the Qingming of the solar term, the time is after the vernal equinox. At this time, winter has gone, spring is full of joy, the weather is clear, the four fields are clear, and nature is full of vitality. "Qingming" is a very appropriate word to call this period.

The specific date of the Winter Food Festival is one hundred and five days after the Winter Solstice Festival (around April 5). Now most of Shanxi celebrates the Cold Food Festival the day before the Qingming Festival. A few places, such as Yushe County, celebrate the Cold Food Festival two days before the Qingming Festival.

Yuanqu County also pays attention to the cold food festival on the day before the Qingming Festival, and the small cold food on the first two days.

Therefore, historically, Qingming Festival is not a cold food festival.

Qingming Festival, also known as the Tomb Sweeping Festival, the Ghost Festival, the Hades Festival, and the July 15 Midyear Festival and the October 15th Yuan Festival are collectively known as the Three Hades Festival, all of which are related to the sacrifice of ghosts and gods. Winter Food Festival.

Therefore, the name of Qingming Festival is the Cold Food Festival.

If you still don't understand, you can ask!

The reason why the Qingming Festival is called the Cold Food Festival is because the day of the Qingming Festival and the Cold Food Festival is close, and the Cold Food Festival is the day when the people ban fire and sweep the tombs.

Qingming Festival is a traditional major spring festival, sweeping the tomb to worship, remembering the ancestors, is a fine tradition of the Chinese nation since ancient times, not only conducive to promoting filial piety and family affection, awakening the common memory of the family, but also to promote the cohesion and sense of identity of family members and even the nation. The Qingming Festival integrates natural solar terms and humanistic customs, which is the unity of the right time, the right place and the right people, and fully reflects the harmonious unity of the ancestors of the Chinese nation in pursuing the harmony and unity of "heaven, earth and man", and paying attention to the idea of conforming to the time and place and following the laws of nature.

Introduction to the Winter Food Festival:

The Cold Food Festival is a very old festival, which has been passed down among the people for a long time, but now it only has this name, and few people know which day the Cold Food Festival is. The Cold Food Festival is also called the Non-Smoking Festival in ancient times, and on this day, every household is forbidden to light a fire and eat cold rice.

The Cold Food Festival spread to the end of the Han Dynasty, and Cao Cao issued an official document in the name of ** to abolish the Cold Food Festival. Cao Cao had a deep study of health culture, eating cold food did not maintain health, and the cold food festival was gradually abandoned.

The Cold Food Festival is one or two days before the Qingming Festival, no smoke and fire, and only cold food is eaten. The Cold Food Festival stretches for more than 2,000 years and was once known as the first major festival day of Chinese folk.

The Cold Food Festival and the Qingming Festival coincide, but the Cold Food Festival disappeared, but the Qingming Festival has been handed down.

The Qingming Festival, also known as the Qingqing Festival, originated in the Zhou Dynasty, for thousands of years, every Qingming Festival, every household has to worship the ancestors and sweep the tombs for the ancestors.

In the past dynasties, the Qingming Festival has been regarded as a legal holiday, and people have been given a holiday on the Qingming Festival to go home to sweep the tomb.

When spring comes, people go out into the wild to move their muscles and bones, fly kites, not only exercise their bodies, feel the breath of spring, and improve their immunity.

Qingming Festival, also known as the Tomb Sweeping Festival, the Ghost Festival, and the Hades Festival, and the July 15th Midyear Festival, October 15th Xia Yuan Festival, collectively known as the Three Hades Festival, are all related to the sacrifice of ghosts and gods. And it's more than 2,500 years old. At the same time, the Qingming Festival, also known as the Qingqing Festival, according to the solar calendar, it is between April 4 and 6 every year, which is the time when the spring is bright and the grass and trees are green, and it is also a good time for people to go on a spring outing (called the Qingqing in ancient times), so the ancients had the custom of going out during the Qingming Festival and carrying out a series of sports activities.

There are tomb sweeping, non-smoking, ancestor worship, tree planting, swinging, flower appreciation, cockfighting, feasting, cold food, willow planting, walking, juju, poetry and so on.

The difference between Qingming Festival and Cold Food Festival: Originally, they were two festivals with different meanings.

The Cold Food Festival, also known as the "Non-Smoking Festival", "Cold Festival", and "Hundred and Five Festivals", is one hundred and five days after the winter solstice in the lunar calendar and one or two days before the Qingming Festival. At the beginning of the day, no smoking and only cold food is eaten. Before the Sui and Tang dynasties, the "Qingming Festival" only referred to one of the 24 festivals that distinguished the alternation of seasons and agricultural operations, and the main item of the Cold Food Festival was to prohibit smoking and eat cold food in every household, and the time was in the cold midwinter season.

Because the time is close to the Qingming Festival, and affected by it, the development of later generations gradually increased the customs such as sacrificial sweeping, stepping on the green, swinging, juju, hooking, fighting eggs, etc., and the cold food festival stretches for more than 2,000 years, which is known as the first major festival day of the people.

Qingming Festival, also known as the Qingqing Festival, is at the turn of mid-spring and late spring, that is, the 108th day after the winter solstice. It is a traditional Chinese festival and one of the most important sacrificial festivals, which is a day to worship ancestors and sweep tombs.

In the Tang Dynasty, the Cold Food Festival and the Qingming Festival gradually merged into one.

It is also called the Cold Food Festival, and if you don't know, you can refer to the origin.

Origin of the Cold Food Festival: The Cold Food Festival originated in the Spring and Autumn Period, and Jiezhitui was burned in Jiexiu Mianshan. Duke Wen of Jin ordered the prohibition of fire and cold food on the day of Zitui's taboo, and sent condolences with cold food.

Origin of Qingming Festival: Qingming Festival is the most grand and grand ancestor worship festival of the Chinese nation, and it belongs to a cultural traditional festival that respects ancestors and chases the distance cautiously. The Qingming Festival embodies the national spirit, inherits the sacrificial culture of Chinese civilization, and expresses people's moral feelings of respecting ancestors and ancestors.

Sweeping the tomb, that is, the "tomb sacrifice", is called the "respect for the time" of the ancestors, the spring and autumn sacrifices, there have been in ancient times.

The Qingming Festival has a long history, originating from the ancestral beliefs and spring rites of ancient times. According to the research results of modern anthropology and archaeology, the two most primitive beliefs of human beings are the belief in heaven and earth, and the belief in ancestors. The formulation of the ancient Ganzhi calendar provided the prerequisites for the formation of festivals, and ancestor belief and sacrificial culture were important factors in the formation of ancestor worship customs during the Qingming Festival.

It is rumored that the original place of the Cold Food Festival is Jiexiu Mianshan in Shanxi, which has a history of 2,640 years. According to the interpretation of "Ciyuan" and "Cihai" "Cold Food Festival": In the Spring and Autumn Period, Jiezhitui went through hardships to assist the Jin Gongzi to return to the country, and lived in seclusion in Jiexiu Mianshan.

Duke Wen of Jin forced him to come out by burning the mountain with heavy ears, and Zitui and his mother and son were burned in hiding. In order to mourn him, Duke Wen of Jin ordered a ban on fire and cold food on the day of Zitui's death (later one hundred and five days after the winter solstice), forming a cold food festival.

In the Song and Yuan dynasties, a traditional festival was formed centered on worshipping ancestors and sweeping tombs, and the customs of banning fire and cold food of cold food were integrated with customs and activities such as outings in Shangsi. The Ming and Qing dynasties generally inherited the old system of the previous generation, and the Qingming Festival still adhered to and developed its status as an indispensable festival in spring life.

Zeng Li will talk to you about the origin of the "horror" of the Cold Food Festival.

Qingming Festival is called the reason for the cold food festival Qingming is a very important solar term at the beginning, Qingming arrives, the temperature rises, it is a good season for spring ploughing and spring planting, so there is "before and after Qingming Festival, plant melons and beans". "Afforestation, no better than Qingming" agricultural proverb.

Later, because the day of Qingming and cold food is close, and cold food is the day of the folk ban on fire and tomb sweeping, gradually, cold food and Qingming will become one, and cold food has become another name for Qingming, but also has become a custom of Qingming season, Qingming day does not move fireworks, only eat cold food.

In the Tang Dynasty, everyone set the day of worshipping and sweeping the tomb as the Cold Food Festival, because the correct day of the Cold Food Festival is one hundred and five days after the winter solstice, so if it is calculated, it is just in time for the Qingming Festival, so people will combine the Qingming Festival and the cold food into one day.

In most parts of Shanxi, the Cold Food Festival is celebrated the day before the Qingming Festival; Yushe County and other places celebrate the cold food festival two days before the Qingming Festival; Yuanqu County also pays attention to the cold food festival on the day before the Qingming Festival, and the small cold food on the first two days.

Because the Qingming Festival originated from the Cold Food Festival, it was gradually replaced and the customs of the Cold Food Festival gradually evolved into the Qingming Festival, which has a history of more than 2,600 years from the Spring and Autumn Period.

One hundred and five days after the winter solstice, it is called cold food, and it is forbidden to fire and cold food on this day in the past, so it is also called "cold festival" and "non-smoking festival". Folklore has it that the cold food is to commemorate the Spring and Autumn period when Jie Zitui was burned in Mianshan, and the Duke of Jin Wen ordered a ban on fire. Jie Zitui is a native of Shanxi, so the custom of cold food was first popular in Shanxi.

In the old days, the cold food broke the fire, and the next day there was a ceremony of drilling wood to get a new fire in the palace, and the people also begged each other for new fire with wicker.

Fifteen days after the vernal equinox is Qingming, which is a good day for outings. Qingming is the day of sweeping the grave and worshiping the ancestors, and the folk are also called "Ghost Festival", "Hades Festival", and July 10.

5. October 1 is generally known as the "Three Dead Festival", and there is a ceremony for the city god to go out on patrol.

Qingming Festival is not called the Cold Food Festival.

The Cold Food Festival is also known as the "Non-Smoking Festival", "Cold Festival", and "Hundred and Five Festivals", which is 105 days after the winter solstice in the summer calendar and one or two days before the Qingming Festival.

At the beginning of the day, no smoking and only cold food is eaten. And in the development of later generations, the customs such as sacrificial sweeping, stepping on the green, swinging, juju, hooking, cockfighting, etc., stretched for more than 2,000 years before and after the cold food festival, and was once known as the first major festival day of the people. The Cold Food Festival is the only festival named after the food customs among the traditional festivals of the Han nationality.

Later, because the cold food and Qingming were closer, people combined the cold food and Qingming to only celebrate the Qingming Festival.

The Cold Food Festival is usually the 105th day after the winter solstice. It is similar to the date of Qingming Festival. Before the reform of the Tang John calendar in the early Qing Dynasty, the Qingming Festival was set two days after the Cold Food Festival; After the Tang reform, the Cold Food Festival was set on the day before the Qingming Festival.

The modern 24 solar terms follow the Tang family, so the Cold Food Festival is the day before the Qingming Festival. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, many regions equated the Cold Food Festival with the Qingming Festival and celebrated it on the same day.

After 105 days of the east solstice, it is the Cold Food Festival, which is the Qingming Festival that we live now. The Qingming Festival is to commemorate Jie Zitui, who is a native of Shanxi and died in the fire of Mian Mountain.

Due to the proximity of Qingming and the days of cold food, everyone feels that it is very troublesome to have 2 festivals, so they slowly merge them and spend them together, which is more convenient, and everyone will not forget, and cold food has become another name for Qingming, but also has become a custom of the Qingming season.

Qingtuan is one of the representatives, using the juice of wormwood that only exists before and after the Qingming Dynasty to mix into flour, and then wrap it in bean paste, meat floss and other fillings. The blue-green dumplings are pinched out and steamed over the heat. The green soft and glutinous thin skin, not sweet or greasy, with a light and long grassy taste, a little sticky, but not sticky to the teeth, plus the taste of the filling inside, it dissolves in the mouth, and it is simply impossible to stop.

Southerners like to eat salty and sweet meat floss filling, while northerners prefer pure and sweet bean paste filling.