(1) Legendary story of Qingming Festival. (100 words)
The Qingming Festival was first a farming festival, when another festival was the Cold Food Festival in honor of Duke Wen of Jin and the wise minister Jie Zi Tui in the Spring and Autumn Period. At that time, there was civil unrest within the court, and the half-brother of the crown prince of Jin wanted to get rid of him and take the throne of the emperor. In order to escape from being victimized, he ended up escaping from the palace and wandering around, still taking his most loyal vassal, Jie Zi Pui, and others with him.
Just one day, in the mountains, the crown prince and jiezi push and others lost, appeared to the extent of fasting, jiezi push without hesitation cut off his thigh meat to cook soup for everyone to drink, temporary relief of hunger, the crown prince and other ministers are very touched. This incident has been put in the heart of the crown prince of Jin. 19 years later, he returned to the state of Jin and became the king of a country. He was called Duke Wen of Jin. At that time, many of the ministers who helped the Duke of Jin went to the palace to be rewarded, but did not see Jie Zi Tui to come.
At that time, Jie Zi push did not want to go, and even more did not expect Jie Zi push with his old mother quietly returned to his hometown, living in seclusion in the mountains. Duke Wen of Jin was very uncomfortable in his heart, so he went to the mountains to invite Jie Zi push. But Jie Zi Tui did not want to go back to be rewarded. Finally, the Duke of Jin thought of a way is to use fire to burn the mountain to force the jiezi push out, the result of the fire is too big to the jiezi push his old mother accidentally burned to death.
Very regretful Duke Wen of Jin apologized, very sad, decided to bury his mother in the willows, known as the "mesa", on the day of death is not allowed to people to eat by fire, only cold food, to commemorate the jiezi push, designated as the "Cold Food Festival". ". Since then and then the meson of the meson push the grave every day on this day will be on time to go to sweep the tomb to worship the meson push.
So this day Cold Food Festival is also designated as tomb-sweeping, Cold Food Festival and Qingming Festival originally belonged to the two festivals. By the time of the Tang Dynasty, the two festivals were very similar, so they were designated as the same day as the Qingming Festival and the Cold Food Festival, and the custom of sweeping tombs appeared on the day of the Qingming Festival.
(2) The story of Qingming Festival
The origin of Qingming Festival: According to the Records of the Grand Historian, during the Spring and Autumn Period, the Prince of Jin, Chong Er, was persecuted and fled around. Once the hunger was unbearable, ordered his vassal Jie Zi push to find food, Jie Zi push can not bear to see his master wasting away day by day, so he dug off a piece of meat on his thigh and burned it to give Chong Er to eat, Jie Zi push also suffered from leg disease as a result.
Chong Er was so grateful that he vowed not to forget his loyalty to Jie Zi Tui. A few years later, Chong Er re-emerged on the throne and became Duke Wen of Jin, the hegemon of the Spring and Autumn period. All the ministers who fled with Chong Er were rewarded, except for Jie Zi Pui, who fled to the mountains with his mother on his back.
Duke Wen of Jin remembered his guilt and wanted to re-instate this old minister who had been in trouble with him, but Jie Zi Pui was determined to go back to his hometown. The fire burned for three days and three nights, and Jie Zi Tui sat under a willow tree until he was burned to death, but he did not come out. Duke Wen of Jin regretted it so much that he ordered the whole country not to burn fire on this day every year, and to eat only raw food. This is the origin of the Cold Food Festival, the first day of the Qingming Festival.
Cold Food Festival is the day before the Qingming Festival, the ancients often extended the activities of the Cold Food Festival to the Qingming, and over time, people will be cold food and Qingming into one. Now, the Qingming Festival has replaced the Cold Food Festival, and the custom of worshipping Jie Zi Tui has become the custom of sweeping graves at Qingming.
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Qingming Festival, also known as the Treading Green Festival, is held at the intersection of mid-spring and late spring. Qingming Festival is a traditional Chinese festival and one of the most important sacrificial festivals, a day for sweeping tombs and paying homage to ancestors. The traditional Qingming Festival of the Chinese people began around the Zhou Dynasty, more than 2,500 years ago.
Through the development and evolution of history, Qingming has an extremely rich connotation, and different customs have been developed in various places, while sweeping tombs and sacrificing to ancestors, trekking is the basic theme. The Qingming Festival, together with the Dragon Boat Festival, the Spring Festival and the Mid-Autumn Festival, is known as one of the four major traditional festivals in China, and the Qingming Festival declared by the Ministry of Culture of China was approved by the State Council to be included in the list of the first batch of national intangible cultural heritages on May 20, 2006
The Qingming Festival is one of the important "eight festivals of the year" in China, which is generally celebrated on the 5th day of the 4th month of the Gregorian calendar. Before and after, the festival period is very long, there are 10 days before and after 8 days and 10 days before and after 10 days two kinds of say, this nearly 20 days are Qingming Festival. Qingming Festival originally refers to the fifteen days after the equinox, in 1935 the Republic of China *** clearly defined April 5 as a national holiday Qingming Festival, also called the National Tomb Sweeping Festival.
(3) Qingming Festival legend story (to be brief)
Qingming Festival legend story: According to legend, during the Spring and Autumn Period, Jin Gongzi Chong Er to escape persecution and exile country back outside, tired and hungry, answer no longer able to stand up, with the ministers of meson pushed from his own thigh to cut a piece of meat to cook the soup for Chong Er to drink. Nineteen years later, Chong Er did the Duke of Jin, Jie Zi push back against the willow tree died in the mountain fire, to commemorate the Jie Zi push, Duke of Jin ordered the day to be designated as "Cold Food Festival".
Qingming Festival is an ancient festival of the Chinese nation, which is not only a solemn festival of sweeping tombs and worshipping ancestors, but also a joyful festival for people to get close to nature, trekking and enjoying the fun of spring. Doo refers to B (or the sun's yellow longitude reaches 15 °) for the Qingming Festival, the delivery of the festival time in the calendar around April 5 around.
This time of the year, angry and prosperous, Yin recession, everything "spit out the old and new", the earth presents the image of spring and Jingming, it is the countryside trekking and spring line Qing tomb sacrifice of a good time. Qingming ancestor festival period is very long, there are 10 days before 8 days and 10 days before 10 days after the two say, this nearly 20 days are Qingming ancestor festival period.
(4) about the story of the Qingming Festival, to be brief
This is a rainless Qingming, the first warm and cold.
Zhao, who had been sleeping for days, suddenly woke up in the early morning, and her children and grandchildren were surprised.
This is a lonely grave without a monument, and the grave soil is newly cultivated.
Zhao was helped to stand in front of the grave, behind her children and grandchildren kneeling. It was like remembering a half-century
of distant and familiar stories.
A newlywed soon to have a pregnant wife, the beloved husband sent out of the Daba Mountain, sent to the front line of the anti-Japanese war, the turn of the war for a few years, no news.
The Japanese surrendered, and she took her son to look for her long-lost relatives in high spirits.
However, what they found was a hand-sewn shirt full of bullet holes and a shiny medal. The mother and son did not ask for anything from the army and returned to their hometown with tears in their eyes.
The mother, with the eternal longing for her husband, and the son, with the lifelong regret of never having seen his father, buried a coffin with only two relics.
A lonely grave protrudes from a nameless and barren hill in the Daba Mountains, lonely and desolate. And since the grave, every Qingming, the deserted mountain next to the lonely grave will be more than a few newly planted pines and cypresses. The first time I saw it, it was a very good one, and the second time I saw it, it was a very good one.
Unconsciously, fifty years have passed. The bald mountain has long been covered by green trees, the lonely grave is always covered by pines and cypresses. The big trees in the sky and the newly planted seedlings, constituting a clear forest belt. Undulating mountains and forests but failed to hide Zhao's life of bitterness, ups and downs and ageless complex.
"Zhao, I'm here again, bringing our children and grandchildren to plant Qingming trees. Time passes so slowly, it's not easy to see you once a year. It's hard to see you once a year. I almost couldn't make it today, but I'm sure I'll come sooner or later.
I told you that you will not be lonely and will not be forgotten, you are not alone with these Qingming trees.
Zhao brother ah, my life is really enough ...... do not say, I know you do not love to hear that sad things. Say something else!" Zhao whispered to himself. Fire paper gradually burned out, paper ash gently flying up with the wind.
This rainless Qingming, a lonely grave around a few more newly planted pines and cypresses. One of them is a tree planted by an old woman in her eighties.
The next year's Qingming Festival, rainy and cloudy, there was a new grave next to the Qingming tree.
(5) Legend of Qingming Festival Synopsis
During the Spring and Autumn Period, Jie Zi Tui, a minister of the State of Jin, protected the eldest son of the State of Jin--Shong Er to escape, and at the time of starvation and cold version of the occasion, Quan, in order to prevent Shuang Er from starving to death, cut off the meat of his own thighs and gave it to Shuang Er to eat. Later, when Chong Er became the king of Jin, he wanted to give Jie Zi Tui an official title, but Jie Zi Tui refused to be an official, and lived in seclusion in the mountains.
In order to force Jie Zi Tui out, some people suggested setting fire to the mountain, and the fire burned for many days, but Jie Zi Tui still did not come out. When the fire was extinguished, Jie Zi Tui's body was found by people. Chong Er regretted a lot. In order to commemorate Jie Zi Tui, this day was designated as the Cold Food Festival, which later evolved into the present-day Qingming Festival.
(5) the main story of the Qingming Festival extended reading
Qingming Festival, also known as the Treading Green Festival, according to the solar calendar, it is between April 4 and 6 every year, it is the time of spring bright and beautiful grass and trees spit green, but also it is the people of the spring tour (the ancient called trekking) a good time, so the ancients have the Qingming trekking, and a series of sports activities. Therefore, the ancient people have Qingming trekking, and carry out a series of sports activities of the custom. Until today, the Qingming Festival to worship ancestors, mourning the deceased relatives of the custom is still very prevalent.
Qingming Festival is one of the traditional festivals of the Han Chinese people in China, one of the twenty-four solar terms in China, around April 5 on the solar calendar every year. In ancient times, the day before the Qingming Festival for the "cold food festival" said, according to legend, from the Spring and Autumn period, the Duke of Jin Wen mourning Jie Zi push "cut the stock to fill the hunger", and gradually after the Qingming cold food into one.
(6) about the Qingming Festival short story
The Manchu cold food festival, why do not move the fireworks, in memory of the first ancestor of King Hanking saved Mrs. Maus. The people of Menghua City in Weishan Yine Hui Autonomous County, Yunnan Province, Yong in the Qingming Festival willow is to be grateful to the Menghua people who saved the people from being poisoned by the officials and soldiers, and was burned to death by the fire, Liu Qing. Jinping County, Yunnan Province, Yao women in the Qingming Festival head of flowers, is to be grateful to the thieves and thieves struggle to save the owner, the hero died of injuries to the snake.
Jiangsu Suzhou, Changshu area around the Qingming Festival like to eat wine cakes, is from the end of the Yuan Jiangzhe area of the volunteer leader Zhang Shicheng in order to thank the old man who saved his mother with the cake when in distress. Tongxiang, Zhejiang Province, Zhu Jiage area farmers, Qingming Festival in addition to the hall set up wine and food offerings to the ancestors, but also in the hall outside the porch house set up a table of wine and food, put 18 cups and chopsticks, pay homage to the 18 "outside the hall of the ancestors".
It is to commemorate the 18 warriors of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom who brought favors to Zhu Jiage.
Qingming Festival integration of cold food festival
By the time of the Tang Dynasty, both the scholar and the common people, the cold food festival tomb sweeping is regarded as the rituals to return to the roots of the ancestor, due to the Qingming from the cold food festival is very close to the people also often extend the tomb sweeping to the Qingming. During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, the Qingming Festival gradually rose from being affiliated with the Cold Food Festival to replacing it. Not only on the tomb sweeping ceremony held in the Qingming, even the cold food festival original customary activities such as cold food, cuju, swinging swing, etc., are Qingming Festival to all.
(7) the story of the origin of the Qingming Festival summarizes the main content
The origin of the Qingming Festival:
It is said to have begun in the ancient emperors and generals "tomb sacrifice" of the ceremony, and then the folk also follow suit, in this day ancestral tomb sweeping, and the generations along the return to inherit and become China to answer the nation a fixed custom. Originally, the Cold Food Festival and the Qingming Festival are two different festivals, to the Tang Dynasty, will be the day to worship the tomb as the Cold Food Festival.
The name "Qingming Festival" also comes from the Qingming Festival in the 24 solar terms of the Chinese lunar calendar. The 105th day after the winter solstice is the Qingming Festival. The Qingming Festival **** has 15 days. The time of Qingming as a festival is after the vernal equinox. At this time, winter is gone, spring is in full bloom, the weather is clear, the fields are bright and clean, and nature shows vitality everywhere. The term "Qingming" is the most appropriate term to describe this period.
One hundred and five days after the winter solstice is called the cold food, once upon a time this day, banning fire, cold food, so also known as the "cold festival", "ban smoking festival". Folk legend has it that the cold food is to commemorate the Spring and Autumn period of jie zi tui was burned in the fire in Mianshan, Jin Wengong ordered to prohibit fire. Jie Zi Tui was a native of Shanxi, so the cold food custom was first popular in Shanxi. In the old days, cold food off fire, the next day in the palace there are drilling wood to take the new fire ceremony, the folk are also more to willow each other begging for a new fire.
(8) Ching Ming Festival short story
Spring and Autumn Period, the minister of the State of Jin, Jie Zi Pui, to protect the eldest son of the State of Jin - Chong Er fled, in the cold and hunger at the time of specialization, in order to not let Chong Er starve to death genera, his thigh meat cut down to Chong Er to eat. Later, when Chong Er became the king of Jin, he wanted to give Jie Zi Tui an official title, but Jie Zi Tui refused to be an official and hid himself in the mountains. In order to force Jie Zi Tui to come out, some people suggested to set fire to the mountain, but after the fire burned for many days, Jie Zi Tui still didn't come out. When the fire was extinguished, Jie Zi Tui's body was found. Chong Er regretted a lot. In order to commemorate Jie Zi Tui, this day was designated as the Cold Food Festival, which later evolved into the present-day Qingming Festival.