The Qingming Festival, also known as the Treading Green Festival, is a traditional Chinese festival and one of the most important sacrificial festivals at the intersection of mid-spring and late spring, a day of ancestor worship and grave sweeping. The traditional Chinese Qingming Festival began around the Zhou Dynasty, more than 2,500 years ago.

The origin of the Qingming Festival:

The origin of the Qingming Festival is said to have begun in ancient times when emperors and generals performed the ritual of "tomb sacrifice", which was later imitated by the people to offer sacrifices to their ancestors and sweep their tombs, and it has been inherited through the generations and has become a fixed custom for the Chinese nation. Originally, the Cold Food Festival is the same as the Qingming Festival. Originally, the Cold Food Festival and the Qingming Festival are two different festivals, to the Tang Dynasty, will be the day to worship and sweep 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 has gone, spring is full of flavor, the weather is clear, the four fields are clear, and nature shows vitality everywhere. The term "Qingming" is an appropriate term for this period.

One hundred and five days after the winter solstice is called the cold food, once upon a time this day ban on fire, cold food, so also known as the "cold festival", "Smoke-free Festival". Folk legend has it that the cold food is to commemorate the Spring and Autumn period of jie zi push was burned in the fire in Mianshan, Jin Wendong ordered a ban on fire. Jie Zi push is Shanxi people, so the cold food custom in Shanxi first popular. In the old days, cold food fire break, the next day in the palace there are drilling wood to take the new fire ceremony, the folk also more to willow each other begging for a new fire.