Why is the traditional cold food festival in China gradually forgotten and almost disappeared?

From the Tang Dynasty onwards, the Cold Food Festival, which represents the custom of banning fire and preventing cold, began to decline when its status reached its peak, while the status of the Qingming Festival, which represents the ancestor worship and sacrificial customs of the Ming Dynasty, began to rise. By the Song Dynasty, Confucianism had taken root in China, and the custom of honoring ancestors naturally gained more respect. From the Ming and Qing dynasties to modern times, the Chinese's ability to use fire has improved.

Matches were invented in Europe and introduced to China, making the custom of "setting fire" completely meaningless. The Winter Food Festival is naturally a thing of the past and has been withdrawn from our lives.

Although we no longer celebrate the Cold Food Festival, as the most important festival in ancient China, the Cold Food Festival still leaves us with valuable treasures. First of all, due to the cold food customs of the time, many new food types were promoted, such as jelly, cold noodles and parfait from Shanxi and the Southern Youth League. They are still a daily food on our modern Chinese table.

The custom of prohibiting arson and the legend of "Jie Zi Tui" have passed on the fine moral qualities of loyalty and observance to generations of Chinese people.

Since the traditional Cold Food Festival and the Qingming Festival are next to each other, the meaning and content of the Qingming Festival include the central meaning of the Cold Food Festival. The two festivals are together, and it is clear which is more important and which is lighter, and the significance of the existence of the traditional cold food festival is not much and is gradually forgotten. The Qingming Festival is more prominent, placed in an important position, and is legislatively designated as a major traditional holiday.

The Cold Food Festival is gradually forgotten, and the most important thing is that the content and connotation function of the Cold Food Festival are gradually fading and shrinking, and are directly replaced by the Qingming Festival.

It's like a good person and a mediocre person together, often highlighting the excellent person more and drowning out the mediocre person, this is the visual effect.

The Cold Food Festival is a day or two before the Qingming Festival, fasting fireworks and eating cold food, a pair of solemn respect and nostalgia for the deceased. Modern life is fast-paced, workplace competition is stressful, and the whole life is on the same line, coming and going in a hurry. I can't take care of the two festivals, so I can only give up the cold food festival and take care of the Qingming Festival.

It has gradually been forgotten and almost disappeared, and many young people don't know what the Cold Food Festival is.

Personally, I feel that from the perspective of the people, habits, superstitions, inner psychological comfort and needs, constitute the superficial driving force of the festival, and without the superficial way that these people can understand, it is difficult for the festival to be sustained. Before the Tang Dynasty, efforts were made to publicize and suppress it, breaking the superficial factors of its superstition, and at the same time, the phenomenon of changing fire in people's actual life gradually became indifferent.

Because before the Tang Dynasty, people mostly drilled wood to make fire, and in the Tang Dynasty, the cold food festival cut off the fire source, and eating raw food was gradually more popular to avoid the ancestral tombs! By the Ming and Qing dynasties, China was influenced by European culture, and its ability to make fire was improved, and its control of fire was also enhanced! There are no longer so many people who go to eat raw food!

I think everyone must have heard of the reason for the Winter Food Festival, and I want to say that with the development of the economy, the development form of the festival is also changing, but more values behind the festival have long been integrated into people's lives, so it feels as if it has been forgotten.

Therefore, not only the Cold Food Festival, but all traditional festivals have lost their intrinsic strong driving force. I don't think that's a bad thing.

After the cold food festival began in the Jin Kingdom, it continued for many years, and there were also strict customs of cold food in the middle, such as Cao Cao during the Three Kingdoms period. But it didn't take long for the wind of "cold food and fire banning" to rise spontaneously among the people. From the pre-Qin period to the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Cold Food Festival was regarded as a major festival.

During the Tang Dynasty, it was still regarded as a national grand festival, and many literati and writers wrote poems about the Cold Food Festival.

Experts said that the cold food festival is the day before the Qingming Festival, and the ancients often continued the activities of the cold food festival to the Qingming Festival. After the late Tang Dynasty and the Song Dynasty, the custom of abstaining from fire and cold food gradually faded and declined. By the Yuan Dynasty, many people had largely stopped following this custom.

During the Ming and Qing dynasties, fire was no longer prohibited during the Cold Food Festival, and people were no longer required to eat cold.

The custom of abstaining from fire and cold food during the Cold Food Festival, along with the Cold Food Festival itself, has slowly disappeared in most parts of our country. In other words, the Cold Food Festival has become a part of the Qingming Festival. But knowing and understanding this festival helps people to dig into the cultural and folk connotations of traditional Chinese festivals, which is very meaningful.

The Cold Food Festival 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, when the festival was held, smoking and fire were prohibited, and only cold food was eaten, and in the development of later generations, customs such as sacrificial sweeps, hiking, swings, juju, hooking, and cockfighting were gradually added. Stretching for more than 2,000 years, the Cold Food Festival was once known as the first major festival of Chinese folk festivals, and is the only festival named after food customs among traditional Chinese festivals.

Legend has it that the Cold Food Festival is a festival set up by the Duke of Wen of Jin in the Spring and Autumn Period to commemorate the introduction of Jiezhitui, which has a history of 2640 years. It has continued through various dynasties and has never stopped. Although it has been banned many times by Zhou Ju of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Cao Cao at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Later Zhao Shile, and Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty, it has been repeatedly banned and prospered, and the customs of cold food have spread throughout the country and penetrated into the hearts of the people.

Tang Xuanzong conformed to the public opinion, issued an edict to compile the cold food festival to sweep the tomb into the "Kaiyuan Ceremony", and set it as the national statutory long holiday, rich and diverse cold food activities, enriched social life, enhanced social interpersonal harmonious relations, alleviated social contradictions, and promoted the continuous progress of society played an important role.

In particular, the recognition and participation of the rulers of the Northern Wei, Liao, Jin, Yuan and Qing dynasties in the customs of the cold food festival played a subtle and great role in promoting national unity and consolidating political power through the exchange and integration of cold food culture.

The political aspirations of the cold food festival to promote the country and the people, loyalty and patriotism, clarity and honesty and the dedication spirit of "merit is not to be said" and retirement are the ancient social ethical norms, the bond of social stability and national unity, and still have important practical significance.

The Cold Food Festival, also known as the "Non-Smoking Festival", "Cold Festival", and "One Hundred and Five Festival", is one hundred and five 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, and fighting eggs were gradually added, and the cold food festival lasted for more than 2,000 years, and was once known as the first major festival day of the people.

The Cold Food Festival is the only traditional festival of the Han nationality named after the food customs.

The main reason is to commemorate a person and Yu, because this person died very unjustly, and secondly, because he is to save the emperor and call Yufeng, so there is such a festival.

It is to pay tribute to a person, because there was a lot of attention at that time, and secondly, because this person's death has a lot to do with the emperor.

The historical Cold Food Festival was established by Duke Wen of Jin to commemorate Jie Zitui, and later it also became to commemorate the ancestors.

There are two theories: one is from the dust bureau sedan car ancient change the old habit of fire, that is, this festival extinguishes last year's fire and ignites the new year's fire. The second is the story of Jin Wengong and Jie Zitui.

The main thing is to pay tribute to a person, because this person died for the emperor, and he was also greatly injured, and he was starved to death.

This is to pay tribute to a dead man, he died for the emperor, and he was still starved to death at that time.

The Cold Food Festival, also known as the "October Dynasty" and "Yin Festival", is the first day of October in the lunar calendar every year, and is a festival for the common people in northern China to sweep the tombs of their ancestors and send winter clothes, which began in the Zhou Dynasty and was produced no later than the Song Dynasty.

The Winter Clothes Festival is popular in North China, and many Northeast people will sweep the graves and burn offerings on this day to commemorate the deceased family members of the fallen ants, which is called sending winter clothes. In North China, the masses call the Winter Clothes Festival, the Qingming Festival every spring, and the Menglan Festival on the fifteenth day of the seventh laughing moon as the three "four ghost festivals" in China. So who is the Winter Clothes Festival because of the commemoration?

The most popular folk custom is the view that Meng Jiangnu cries on the Great Wall, so it is mainly because of the memory of Mengjiang Nu; It is rumored that the Meng and Jiang families of Songjiang Mansion in the Jiangnan region of the Qin Dynasty planted gourds and got a woman, named Mengjiang Girl, with a husband Fan Qiliang. After that, Qi Liang was arrested to build the Great Wall of Xinjiang in northern Xinjiang, and Mengjiang women searched for her husband to send winter clothes, and found the soles of the Great Wall, but she didn't want her husband to die and was buried in the ancient city wall. Meng Jiangnu was filled with righteous indignation, crying bitterly to the Great Wall day and night, finally singing and crying, crying down the Great Wall, exposing her husband's bones.

Since ancient times, this story of loyal feelings has been widely known. After Jiang Nu cried down the Great Wall for 800 miles, she fought with the First Emperor at zero distance, avenged her husband and exhausted herself, and finally took her husband's bones in her arms and jumped into the sea to commit suicide. At the moment of suicide by jumping into the sea, the waves on the water were surging, slowly arching the rocks on both sides.

I heard that the ginger girl grave on the water, no matter how big the waves are, they have never been topped. Because of the small story of Mengjiang women looking for a husband to send winter clothes, inside and outside the Great Wall, the first day of the tenth month of the lunar calendar is called the "Winter Clothes Festival".

"Burning winter clothes on the first day of October" has long become a custom in the northern region to mourn the deceased family members. The traditional foods of the Winter Clothes Festival include glutinous rice glutinous rice dumplings, dumplings, fresh noodles and red bean rice. This is also a Hakka cultural saying, which says that on the first day of October of the lunar calendar every year, every household will make glutinous rice glutinous rice cakes.

On the first day of October, when the harvest is over, the diligent Hakka culture will make the newly harvested rice into powder, rub the paste and cook it, and then use the sticky rice as the skin, add peanut kernels, white shirt pure sesame seeds, sugar and other fillings to make glutinous rice glutinous rice cakes, in order to reward the family, men, women and children, and congratulate the harvest.

It should be to commemorate the sail seepage meson, and then the sedan chair Qi has this cold food festival. The main reason is that Jiehao Lingzi was burned to death by fire, and he also saved the king's life, so the king called this festival the Cold Food Festival.

The Cold Food Festival in history is to commemorate the character of Jie Zitui, who Hu Yunwu cut off the flesh on his thigh in the process of helping Emperor Wu escape and save the emperor, and finally burned to death with his mother in digging or fire.

This festival is 1-2 days before the Qingming Festival, no smoking and cold food, and is set up to commemorate the ancestors.

The dust is full of tears, and he returns after being in a foreign country. When children and grandchildren come to the grave, they are sad and sad.