According to legend, Zhong Er (the son of Jin Dynasty, Zhong Er) traveled around the world and went through hardships. Once, when he was starving and helpless, Jie Zhitui cut off the meat on his thigh for him to eat. Later, Zhong Er became king (Jin Wengong, one of the five tyrants in the Spring and Autumn Period) and went to find Jie Zhitui who was hiding in the mountains with his mother. I couldn't find it everywhere, so I ordered Yamakaji to be released, trying to force Jietui out, but finally I found Jietui and his mother were burned to death. Zhong Er regretted it very much, so he stipulated that no fire should be made at this time of the year and all cold food should be eaten, which was called Cold Food Festival.
The activities of the Cold Food Festival
In front of Tomb-Sweeping Day. There is a traditional festival with a long history called Cold Food Festival. Nowadays, few people know about the Cold Food Festival, or think that it is the ancient name of Tomb-Sweeping Day, and confuse them, but it is not. Qingming Festival is in early March of the lunar calendar, while Cold Food Festival is in February of the lunar calendar. The Cold Food Festival has two important activities, one is to ban fire, and the other is to sweep graves.
No fire in cold food festival
prohibit cooking (on certain days)
According to "Zhou Li", the fire is forbidden at the Cold Food Festival to "fire in March". According to the custom at that time, whenever the fire was extinguished in mid-spring and February, a new fire was introduced into the people from the palace in March, and the day when the new fire alternated with the old one was the Cold Food Festival.
However, some astronomers have suggested that it is a great historical misunderstanding for future generations to understand internal fire and fire as burning fire. The word "fire" here was originally the name of the star in astronomy, which means big Mars, which is the Q star of Scorpio, with its middle name antares, also known as Shang Xing. It is the main symbol star used to determine the seasons in ancient China. Astronomical officials at that time were called Huozheng. The so-called "fire in March" actually means that Mars appeared in the east in the early evening of March. The dragon raised its head in February, the fire broke out in March and the fire in May, which are the different positions of the same group of celestial phenomena in different seasons. Observing their orientation is very important for determining the season. China has always been based on agriculture, and it is particularly important for agricultural production to accurately determine the spring sowing season. Therefore, it is necessary to set up an official in charge of fire to inform people of the ban on fire and fire every year.
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pay tribute to a dead person at his tomb
Another activity of the Cold Food Festival is grave sweeping, which includes adding soil to graves, trimming trees, cutting weeds, cleaning graves and offering sacrifices to ancestors. The poem "The Wild Hope of Cold Food", written by the self-styled Yi, describes people's sad and sad feelings when sweeping graves during the Cold Food Festival;
The crow's voice is faint in the trees, and the Qingming cold food is crying.
The wind blows the paper money in the wilderness, and the ancient tombs are full of spring grass.
Pear blossoms reflect poplars, which are everywhere in where will you go.
I don't smell the heavy spring crying, and the rustling rain people go home.
Now, in Fuzhou, while most people pay homage to their ancestors' graves on Qingming Festival, some village and town residents are used to choosing the Double Ninth Festival to sweep graves. In Minqing County, which is located in the west of Fuzhou, many people's traditional grave-sweeping season is around the Mid-Autumn Festival, and Qingming does not carry out any sacrificial sweeping activities. In Putian in the south, grave sweeping time is divided into Qingming Festival, Chongyang Festival and Winter Solstice. Winter Solstice is the mainstream in most areas and urban areas, and Qingming grave sweeping areas are distributed along the coast and only once. In Zhangzhou, southern Fujian, the grave-sweeping season is the third day of March, commonly known as the "March Festival", which is the ancient Shangsi Day, which is relatively special. The custom of sweeping graves at this time also spread to Taiwan Province, which caused the time difference for people of Zhangquan origin to sweep graves.