During the Spring and Autumn Period, Zhong Er, the son of the State of Jin, fled and lived a hard life. He followed the meson and cut a piece of meat from his leg to satisfy his hunger. Later, Zhong Er returned to the State of Jin, became a monarch (namely Jin Wengong), and also made a hero. Only the mesons that were particularly helpful to him were forgotten. When Jin Wengong recalled Jiexiu's loyalty to himself, Jiexiu had gone to his hometown Mianshan (now southeast of Jiexiu County, Shanxi Province) to live in seclusion behind his elderly mother.
Deeply ashamed, Jin Wengong personally took people to Mianshan to look for them, but meson tui avoided them. According to other people's suggestions, Mianshan should set a fire and leave a way out. I want to take advantage of the fire in the forest to push the mother and son out of the mountain to avoid the fire. However, after burning for three days and nights, dozens of forests were burned to the ground, and there was still no meson pushing the mother and son. After the fire went out, he found that both his mother and son were holding a big tree and burned to death.
Cold Food Festival, also known as "No Smoking Festival", "Cold Food Festival" and "Hundred Five Days Festival", follows the ancient habit of changing fire. In early spring every year, the climate is dry, not only the kindling preserved by people is easy to cause fire, but also the occurrence of spring thunder is easy to cause mountain fires. In this season, the ancients held a grand sacrificial ceremony to put out all the kindling handed down from the previous year, that is, "forbidding fire", and then drilled a new fire as the starting point of production and life in the new year, which was called "changing fire" or "inviting new fire". When the fire is changed, a grand ritual activity is held to burn the symbol of millet, the god of cereal, which is called human sacrifice.
Cold Food Festival, also known as "No Smoking Festival", "Cold Food Festival" and "Hundred Five Days Festival", follows the ancient habit of changing fire. In early spring every year, the climate is dry, not only the kindling preserved by people is easy to cause fire, but also the occurrence of spring thunder is easy to cause mountain fires. In this season, the ancients held a grand sacrificial ceremony to put out all the kindling handed down from the previous year, that is, "forbidding fire", and then drilled a new fire as the starting point of production and life in the new year, which was called "changing fire" or "inviting new fire". When the fire is changed, a grand ritual activity is held to burn the symbol of millet, the god of cereal, which is called human sacrifice.
The Cold Food Festival was regarded as a "wild sacrifice" from the Southern and Northern Dynasties to the Tang Dynasty. In the Tang Dynasty, it was included in Volume 87 of "Opening Ethan", which was worshipped by princes (cold food worship) and became one of the auspicious gifts officially recognized and advocated. Later, it evolved into a royal mausoleum; Official sacrifices to Confucius Temple and sages; People go to sweep graves and so on. At that time, a family or a clan went to the ancestral grave to offer sacrifices, add soil and hang paper money, then sprinkled swallows and snakes and rabbits on the top of the grave, rolled them down, put them on with willow branches or needles, and put them high in the room to show their ancestors' virtue.