During the Spring and Autumn Period, Zhong Er, the son of the State of Jin, went into exile in other countries for 19 years to avoid disaster. Minister Jietui always followed around and never gave up, and even cut off his own meat for Zhong Er to eat when he was deprived of food. After Zhong Er returned to China and became Jin Wengong, Jiezi pushed for fame and fortune, and took his mother to Mianshan.

In order to force him to meet each other, Jin Wengong ordered Yamakaji to be released, but Meson Tui was determined not to come out of the mountain and eventually died in the fire. Jin Wengong, mindful of his ambition to be a loyal minister, buried him in Mianshan, built a temple, and ordered that the fire and cold food be banned on the day when Jietui died, in order to express his grief.

Second, the custom of the Cold Food Festival

The customs of the Cold Food Festival include worshipping ancestors, eating cold food, outing and inserting willows. The cold food festival was regarded as a "wild sacrifice" from the Southern and Northern Dynasties to the Tang Dynasty. Later, it evolved into a royal mausoleum; The official government offered sacrifices to Confucius Temple and sages; People go to graves, etc. Eating cold food means forbidding to make a fire and eating raw and cold food. The outing and willow insertion are both symbolic activities of the Cold Food Festival.

Significance of Cold Food Festival

1, the connotation of cold food culture with loyalty and filial piety as the core and honesty extended from loyalty and filial piety are the essence of meson spirit, the core of Chinese traditional morality, the foundation of national ancestral culture, and the moral force to maintain national and family unity.

Today's Cold Food Festival is an important activity mode and spiritual concept to gather people's hearts, unite soul of china, realize the peaceful reunification of the motherland and build a harmonious society. Jie Zhitui's pursuit of political clarity is the unanimous wish of the broad masses of the people for thousands of years, which has far-reaching practical significance for contemporary democratic political construction.

2. The evolution of the Cold Food Festival in 2640 is a reflection of the ideology of many strata in ancient China society, and it is one of the important clues for the contemporary study of ancient sociology in China.