Tomb-Sweeping Day's short story one
Legend has it that one year in Tomb-Sweeping Day, Taiping Chen, the general of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, was chased by Qing soldiers to a farmland. At this time, a farmer disguised Taiping Chen as a farmer and cultivated land with himself. The Qing soldiers didn't catch anyone, so they set up sentries in nearby villages to check everyone who came in and out of the village to prevent anyone from bringing food to Taiping Chen.
After returning home, the farmer accidentally fell on the wormwood while thinking about what to bring to Taiping Chen. Suddenly, he thought about it. Farmers picked some wormwood and washed it at home, boiled it, and then kneaded the blue wormwood juice into glutinous rice flour to make blue rice dumplings. Finally, put the blue rice dumplings in the grass and get past the sentry at the entrance of the village.
After eating the blue rice ball, Taiping Chen felt fragrant, waxy and non-sticky. It was delicious. After dark, he bypassed the Qing soldiers' checkpoint and returned to the barracks. Later, Taiping Chen taught this way to all soldiers, and the custom of eating Youth League spread.
Tomb-Sweeping Day's Short Story II
According to legend, in the Spring and Autumn Period, Jin Xiangong, the monarch of the State of Jin, had a beautiful young concubine Li Ji. In order to let her son Xi Qi inherit the throne in the future, she killed Prince Shen Sheng with a deadly trap. Shen Sheng's younger brother, Zhong Er, was humiliated all the way to escape the persecution of Li Ji. On one occasion, Zhong Er fainted because of hunger. Minister Jiezitui cut a piece of meat from his leg, cooked it with fire and gave it to Zhong Er.
In this way, they went from place to place and went through hardships, and finally returned to the State of Jin after 19 years. Zhong Er later became a famous Jin Wengong in history. Later, Zhong Er became a monarch and rewarded all the followers who followed him in exile, but Jietui refused to be sealed and took his mother to live in seclusion in Mianshan. Jin Wengong ordered the release of Yamakaji, trying to force the meson to push his mother out. Who knows that this fire burned the meson mother and son to death. To commemorate meson push, Jin Wengong ordered that mountain fires should be banned on this day every year, and every household can only eat raw and cold food.
Tomb-Sweeping Day's short story 3
According to legend, at the end of the Qin Dynasty, Emperor Gaozu Liu Bang wanted to go back to his hometown to worship his parents after he unified the whole country. However, due to years of war, the ancestral temple was covered with weeds and damaged. Although the men turned it over, they couldn't find the tablet of Liu Bang's parents until dusk. Finally, Liu Bang had no choice but to ask the gods. He took out a piece of paper from his sleeve and tore it into many small pieces by hand and held it in his hand. Liu Bang prayed to God: "I hope that my parents will have a spirit in the sky. If there is a piece of paper on a tablet that can't even blow the wind, it belongs to my parents." Say that finish, liu bang threw the paper into the air.
Sure enough, a piece of paper fell on a broken tablet, which could not be blown no matter how the wind blew. Liu Bang ran over and looked carefully, and there was really a Chinese character engraved on it. Liu Bang was so happy that it was renovated immediately, and Tomb-Sweeping Day would return home every year to worship his parents. Later, people followed suit and pressed a few pieces of paper on it with small stones, indicating that someone was offering sacrifices to sweep.