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The Cold Food Festival is a kind of football-playing sport, which is very popular among the people, the palace and the army. It is recorded in Wei Yingwu's "Work on the North Building after Cold Food": "Gardens celebrate the New Festival, and the wind and flowers are on the shelf. I heard the sound of drums, and I was happy in the army. " It depicts the scene in the army.
2. Worship the ancestors
During the Cold Food Festival, people offered sacrifices, filled the earth and hung paper money in front of the ancestors' graves. Then, sacrifices such as pushing swallows and snake rabbits were scattered on the top of the graves and rolled down. They were put up with willow branches and placed high in the house to show their ancestors' virtue.
3. Insert willow
An important custom of the ancients in the Cold Food Festival, every time the Cold Food Festival, put the willow branches with new buds under the eaves of the door, which is called "cold food inserting willow". In the Tang dynasty, people would insert willow branches into eaves and skirts; In the Qing dynasty, the Cold Food Festival and Qingming Festival were completely integrated, but the custom of inserting willows was still preserved. There is a folk saying that inserting willows in the Cold Food Festival can ward off evil spirits, exorcise ghosts and purify filth.
The Cultural Influence of Cold Food Festival
The formation and evolution of the Cold Food Festival, which combines the wisdom and spiritual culture of the ancients, is of great significance to the inheritance and development of civilization. Historically, the Cold Food Festival is a festival to commemorate the loyalty and righteousness of Jiezitui, which has a history of more than 2,000 years. The core of the Cold Food Festival, loyalty and filial piety and honesty, plays a connecting role in national unity and social stability, lays a foundation for the development of advanced culture, and maintains national, social and family unity.
In art, the Cold Food Festival has produced many works as a writing theme in the historical development. Among the poems involved, there are only hundreds of poems about the Cold Food Festival in Tang and Song Dynasties. The famous poets involved are Han Yu, Bai Juyi, Wang Anshi and Du Fu. The historical celebrities involved are Tang Xuanzong and Cao Cao.