Cold Food Festival is an ancient festival in China. The main festivals are memorial service, spring outing and play. With the development of society, China Cold Food Festival has been completely integrated with Tomb-Sweeping Day, and few people remember this festival.

According to historical records, during the Spring and Autumn Period, Zhong Er, the son of the State of Jin, fled to other countries and lived in exile for 19 years. Minister Jiezitui always followed around and never gave up. Even cut shares.

Zhong Er strives to become a famous Jin Wengong. But meson tui didn't want to make a fortune, so he lived in seclusion with his mother in Mianshan. Jin Wengong ordered the release of Yamakaji to force him out of the mountain, but meson was determined not to go out of the mountain and eventually died in a fire.

Considering his ambition to be a loyal minister, Jin Wengong buried him in Mianshan, built a temple, and ordered to ban fire and cold food on Jiexiu day to express his grief. This is the origin of the Cold Food Festival.

Before the calendar reform in the early Qing Dynasty, the Cold Food Festival was held two days after Tomb-Sweeping Day, and the day before Tomb-Sweeping Day after the reform of Tangjiafa. The definition of the modern twenty-four solar terms follows that of the Tang Dynasty, so the Cold Food Festival is the day before Tomb-Sweeping Day.

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There is another name for the Cold Food Festival, 150, because it is from winter to the future 105. A poem by Su Zhe in Song Dynasty, "New Fire": "Yesterday at 150, many old people ate cold food." In Song Dynasty, Mei Yao Chen wrote "Yi Yun's Cold Food Sense and Li Sheren's Journey": "After 150 days of wind and rain, the clothes in the spring suburbs are wet." ?

Cold food and no fire put out the fire preserved in winter. When it comes to Qingming, it is necessary to drill wood for fire again. Wang Biao, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, once wrote: "A cold food will bring thousands of trees and snow, and a clear fire will bring out ten thousand cigarettes."

The Cold Food Festival originated from the burning of mesons in Mianshan, Jiexiu during the Spring and Autumn Period. Jin Wengong ordered a ban on fire and cold food on the anniversary of the child's death, and sent grief with cold food.

By the time of the Tang Dynasty, a national statutory festival had been formed, and then it merged with Tomb-Sweeping Day, the earliest traditional festival in China. The Cold Food Festival was 2640 years ago. There were five days, one hundred and five days, one month, three days and two days, five days and seven days, and finally it became one day. From Jiexiu in Taiyuan County to all parts of the country.