Two Legends of Tomb-Sweeping Day (Short Stories)
Legend in Tomb-Sweeping Day: According to legend, during the Spring and Autumn Period, Zhong Er, the son of the Jin Dynasty, left his hometown to escape persecution. He was tired and hungry, so he couldn't stand up anymore. He cut a piece of meat from his thigh with the minister's meson and cooked soup for Zhong Er. Nineteen years later, Zhong Er became a literary official in A Jin, but Jiexiu died of a mountain fire with his back against a willow tree. To commemorate Jiexiu, Jin Wengong ordered that this day be designated as "Cold Food Festival".
Tomb-Sweeping Day is an ancient festival of the Chinese nation. It is not only a solemn festival to pay homage to ancestors, but also a happy festival for people to get close to nature, have an outing and enjoy the fun of spring. Douzhi B (or solar calendar reaches 15) is Tomb-Sweeping Day gas, and the node time is around April 5 of Gregorian calendar.
At this time, the vitality is booming, the yin is declining, everything is "going to the old and welcoming the new", and the earth presents a scene full of spring, which is a good time to go for a walk in the spring and sweep the graves. Tomb-Sweeping Day, who worships his ancestors, is very long. There are two statements: 8 days before 10 and 10 days before 10. These nearly 20 days belong to Tomb-Sweeping Day who worships his ancestors.
Three stories about Tomb-Sweeping Day.
During the Spring and Autumn Period, Jie Zitui, the minister of the State of Jin, tried to protect Zhong Er, the eldest son of the State of Jin, from escaping. In order to prevent Zhong Er from starving to death, he cut off the meat from his thigh and gave it to Zhong Er. Later, Zhong Er became the king of the State of Jin and wanted to give meson an official title, but meson refused to be an official and lived in seclusion in the mountains. In order to push the meson out, it was suggested that Yamakaji should be released. As a result, it burned for many days, but the meson push still didn't come out. After the fire went out, meson's body was found.
Zhong Er regretted it. To commemorate meson tui, this day was designated as the Cold Food Festival, which later evolved into today's Tomb-Sweeping Day.
Legend has it that during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there was a prince. In order to avoid the scourge, during his exile, most courtiers who fled with him parted ways. Only a few loyal people stayed and followed him.
One of them is called meson push. Once, the prince fainted from hunger. In order to save the prince, Jiezitui cut a piece of meat from his leg and cooked it with fire for him to eat. Nineteen years later, the prince returned to China and became a monarch. Later, someone said that Jin Wengong.
After Jin Wengong came to power, in addition to meson push, he offered many rewards to courtiers who shared his joys and sorrows. Someone defended meson in front of Jin Wengong. Jin Wengong remembered the past and felt guilty. Jin Wengong went to invite him himself. However, when Jin Wengong came to the meson pusher's house, he saw that the door was closed. Jiezitui didn't want to see him and hid in the mountains behind his mother's back. Jin Wengong asked his body guard to search the mountain, but he couldn't find it.
So, someone had an idea, saying, it is better to let Yamakaji go, set fire on three sides, and keep one side, hoping that the meson will come out by himself after the fire. Jin Wengong ordered the promotion of Yamakaji. Unexpectedly, the fire burned for three days and nights. After the fire was put out, the meson was not pushed out after all. Looking up the mountain, the mother and son were holding a charred willow tree and were dead.
On the day of Tomb-Sweeping Day in the second year, Jin Wengong led the ministers to the Miao Jie Temple at the foot of the mountain to pay homage to Jiexiu, and saw the burning willow on the burning forest slope come back from the dead. Jin Wengong thought that willow was transformed from mesons, so he named it Qingming Willow. People in the state of Jin want to hang willow branches at home, plant willows at graves and go hiking in the mountains.
Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as the outing festival, is one of the traditional festivals in China, and it is also one of the most important sacrificial festivals. It is at the turn of mid-spring and late spring, that is, 104 days after the winter solstice. This is the day to worship ancestors and sweep graves.
The traditional Tomb-Sweeping Day of the Han nationality in China began in the Zhou Dynasty and has a history of more than 2,500 years. Influenced by the Han culture, 24 ethnic minorities in China, such as Manchu, Hezhe, Zhuang, Oroqen, Dong, Tujia, Miao, Yao, Li, Shui, Jing and Qiang, also have the customs of Tomb-Sweeping Day. Although customs vary from place to place, sweeping graves to worship ancestors and outing are the basic themes.
Tomb-Sweeping Day originally referred to Tomb-Sweeping Day, and April 5, 1935 was designated as a national holiday, 15 days after the vernal equinox, also known as the National Tomb Sweeping Festival. On May 20th, 2006, with the approval of the State Council, Tomb-Sweeping Day was listed in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage.
Four Historical Stories about Tomb-Sweeping Day
Liu Bangji's parents:
At the end of Qin Dynasty, Liu Bang finally defeated the overlord and won the world. Liu bang returned to China dressed in gold and wanted to go to his parents' grave to worship, but because of years of war, the grave was covered with weeds and his parents' grave could not be found. Liu bang is very sad. Although his subordinates also helped him search all the tombstones, he didn't find his parents' graves until dusk.
Finally, Liu Bang took the paper out of his sleeve, tore it into many small pieces, held it tightly in his hand, and prayed to God: "My parents are alive in the sky, so I will throw these papers into the air. If the paper falls in one place and the wind cannot move, it is my parents' grave. "
Say that finish, Liu Bang threw the paper into the air, and sure enough, a piece of paper landed on a grave that could not be blown no matter how the wind blew. Liu bang ran over and looked at the vague tombstone carefully, and sure enough he saw his parents' names engraved on it. Later, folks like Liu Bang, Tomb-Sweeping Day went to the ancestral graves every year, and pressed a few pieces of paper on the graves with small clods to show his grave-sweeping.
(4) Guan Yu's extended reading of Tomb-Sweeping Day's story.
Tomb-Sweeping Day is the Spring Festival of the Chinese nation, and the corresponding Spring Festival is the Mid-Autumn Festival of the Double Ninth Festival. Tomb-Sweeping Day's grave-sweeping is a kind of "grave-sweeping sacrifice" and a kind of "respect for time thinking" for ancestors. Its customs have a long history.
As a kind of sacrifice, Tomb-Sweeping Day mainly worships his ancestors and expresses his filial piety and yearning for them. This is a traditional cultural festival, respecting ancestors and pursuing the future cautiously. Tomb-Sweeping Day originally belonged to "ancestor worship festival" and was named "Ghost Festival" in the development and evolution of later generations. In ancient times, people worshipped their ancestors to express filial piety and gratitude, and it was not called Ghost Festival.
There are differences around Tomb-Sweeping Day. According to the different places of sacrifice, Tomb-Sweeping Day can be divided into tomb sacrifice and ancestral temple sacrifice. Tomb sacrifice is the most common, and the Qingming sacrifice is characterized by tomb sacrifice. The reason why Qingming Festival is called sweeping graves is mainly because of the way of sweeping graves. Another form is ancestral temple sacrifice, also called temple fair sacrifice, which is a gathering of clans.
Some places are simply called "Tomb-Sweeping Day" or "Eating Tomb-Sweeping Day". After the ancestor worship ceremony, the patriarch presided over important activities within the Shang clan, admonished the laws and regulations within the clan, and finally got together to eat and drink. It is an ancient tradition to share the blessings of ancestors and reunite clans by eating and drinking together. The so-called "blood brothers eat and drink."
Five short stories about Tomb-Sweeping Day.
Why don't Manchu people set off fireworks at the Cold Food Festival? In memory of Mrs. Mao Mu who saved her ancestor Wang Han. In Tomb-Sweeping Day, people in Weishan Yi and Hui Autonomous County, Hua Meng City, Yunnan Province put willows to thank Liu Qing, a native of Hua Meng, who saved the people under the poison of officers and men, but was burned to death. Tomb-Sweeping Day, a Yao woman in Jinping County, Yunnan Province, put flowers on her head to thank the snake that fought with the thief, saved her master and died heroically.
Tomb-Sweeping Day in Suzhou and Changshu, Jiangsu, likes to eat fermented cakes before and after, which originated from Zhang Shicheng, the rebel leader in Jiangsu and Zhejiang at the end of Yuan Dynasty, to thank the old man who saved his mother with bread when her mother was in danger. During the Qingming Festival, farmers in Zhujiage, Tongxiang, Zhejiang, not only set up tables of food and wine in the hall to worship their ancestors, but also set up a table of food and wine and 18 pairs of chopsticks in the corridor outside the hall to worship 18 "ancestors outside the hall".
It is to commemorate the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom 18 Warriors who brought benefits to Zhujia Pavilion.
Tomb-Sweeping Day Fusion Cold Food Festival
In the Tang Dynasty, both literati and civilians regarded sweeping graves at the Cold Food Festival as a ritual festival to trace the roots. Because Tomb-Sweeping Day is close to the Cold Food Festival, people often extend the grave sweeping to Tomb-Sweeping Day. During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, Tomb-Sweeping Day gradually rose from being attached to the Cold Food Festival to replacing it. Not only were grave-sweeping and grave-sweeping ceremonies held in Tomb-Sweeping Day, but the original customs and activities of the Cold Food Festival, such as cold food, cuju and swinging, were also taken over by Tomb-Sweeping Day.
The story about Tomb-Sweeping Day should be very short.
This is a sunny day without rain, and it is warm and cold at first sight.
Zhao, who had been sleeping for many days, suddenly woke up in the morning, and her children and grandchildren were pleasantly surprised.
This is an isolated grave without a monument, and the grave soil is newly reclaimed.
Zhao was helped to stand in front of the grave, kneeling behind her children and grandchildren. Burning paper in the grave kiln is roaring and dancing. It seems to have been recalled for half a century.
A distant and familiar story.
A pregnant wife, newly married, sent her beloved husband out of Daba Mountain and sent him to the front line of anti-Japanese war. She hasn't heard from him for several years.
Japan surrendered, and she happily took her son to find her long-lost relatives.
However, what I found was a hand-sewn shirt full of bullet holes and a shiny medal. The mother and son made no demands on the troops and returned to their hometown with tears in their eyes.
The mother always misses her husband, and the son buried a coffin with only two relics with lifelong regret that he had never seen his real father.
A lonely grave stands on an unnamed barren hill in Daba Mountain, lonely and desolate. Since the tomb was built, every time I go to Tomb-Sweeping Day, there will be more newly planted pines and cypresses beside the solitary grave on the barren hills. Year after year, never stop.
Unconsciously, fifty years have passed. Bare mountains have long been covered with green trees, and solitary graves have always been covered with pine and cypress. The towering trees and newly planted saplings alternate with each other to form a forest belt with clear annual rings. The ups and downs of the mountains failed to cover up Zhao's bitterness, frustrations and youth complex.
"Zhao4 ge, here I am again, planting Qingming trees with our children and grandchildren. Time flies. It's not easy to see you once a year. I almost couldn't come today, but I will come sooner or later.
I said you won't be lonely and forgotten. With these Qingming trees with you, you are not lonely. How time flies! In a blink of an eye, even our son became a grandfather.
Zhao Ge, I've had enough in my life ... Stop it, I know you don't like to hear those sad things. Say something else! "Scott muttered to himself. The paper gradually burns out, and the paper ash rises gently with the wind.
On this sunny and rainless day, a lonely grave is surrounded by several newly planted pines and cypresses. One of them was a Qingming tree planted by an old lady in her eighties.
In the second year, during the Qingming Festival, it was rainy and rainy, and there was a new grave next to the Qingming tree.
Tell a short story about Tomb-Sweeping Day.
Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as the Cold Food 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 "cutting stocks."
Zhong Er tried to become a famous monarch "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. Bearing in mind his ambition to be a loyal minister, Jin Wengong buried him in Mianshan, built a shrine and a temple, and ordered the fire and cold to be banned on the day of the festival to show his grief. This is the origin of the "Cold Food Festival".
(7) Guan Yu's extended reading of Tomb-Sweeping Day's story.
Holiday changes:
Cold food and Qingming in the Song Dynasty also had seven days' holiday. Volume 1 of Pang Wenchang Magazine in the Northern Song Dynasty records: "Every 70-year-old ancestral temple has six days, and Yuan Day, cold food and winter are seven days each." In the Southern Song Dynasty, Chen Juan quoted Song Luyuan-ming's Miscellaneous Notes on the Age of the Year as saying, "The first two days in Tomb-Sweeping Day are Cold Food Festival, with three days before and after, and seven days off. Civil fire ban 104 days, called private cold food, also known as big cold food. Northerners use this day to offer sacrifices first. There is a saying that there is no way out for the moon. "
1935, the Republic of China designated April 5th as a national holiday in Tomb-Sweeping Day. On February 7, 2007, the 1 98th executive meeting of the State Council adopted a decision on amending the National Festival and Memorial Day, stipulating that "Tomb-Sweeping Day will have a holiday1day (the first day of the Lunar New Year is clear), and Tomb-Sweeping Day will officially become a legal holiday in 2008, with one day off. It was changed to three days in 2009.