Cold food is the winter solstice after/kloc-0.05, and three days are in * * *, while Tomb-Sweeping Day is the winter solstice after/kloc-0.08. The Cold Food Festival, also known as "No Smoking Festival", "Cold Food Festival" and "Hundred Days Festival", is a day-long festival. No smoking is allowed, only cold food is eaten. Later generations gradually increased the customs of sweeping, climbing, swinging, cuju, crochet and cockfighting, which became the biggest folk festival.
A short story about the origin of the Cold Food Festival.
"The child is evasive, and the mountain fire burns me. The four seas have the same cold food, and one person in a thousand years. "
According to historical records, in the Spring and Autumn Period of 636 BC, Jin Xiangong's favorite concubine, Li Ji, had ulterior motives, attempting to murder Prince Shen Sheng and his son Zhong Er, and supporting his youngest son Moqi to inherit the throne. After the loyal subjects such as Jiezitui knew about it, they protected Zhong Er and took refuge in the State of Jin.
One day, they ran out of food in the deep forest of Weiguo. Just when Zhong Er was starving to death, Jiezitui secretly cut a piece of meat on his leg and cooked it with the picked wild vegetables for Zhong Er to eat.
Zhong Er was very moved when he learned the truth. He said with tears, "Never forget the great kindness of' cutting shares to serve the king'" and promised to be rewarded after he succeeded to the throne in the future.
Jiezitui replied, "I don't want you to repay me in the future. I want you to care about the people and be a wise king."
After living in exile with 19 years, he returned to China and acceded to the throne with the help of China people and Qin.
As the bus approached the capital, Zhong Er threw away the broken mat that accompanied him in exile.
Jie tui picked up the broken mat and quietly returned to his hometown in Peijie Village, Xia County to honor his mother.
After Jin Wengong and Zhong Er came to power, all the active ministers who followed him were rewarded by high officials and generous salaries, but they forgot to recommend mesons.
After being reminded, Jin Wengong realized that he regretted it very much and ordered the whole country to look for mesons. But Jiezitui didn't want to be an official any more, so she took her mother to Mianshan to live in seclusion.
When Jin Wengong learned of this, he personally led the minister to Mianshan, but Mianshan was too big for Jiezitui to meet, and he could not be found at all.
At this time, it was suggested that meson tui was a dutiful son. If Mianshan is burned, Jiezitui will definitely carry his mother out of the mountain to save his life.
So Jin Wengong ordered the mountain to be burned. As a result, the fire burned for many days, and there was no trace of meson push. Jin Wengong took people into the mountains to look for it, only to find that meson pushed his mother and was burned to death under a big tree.
Jin Wengong was heartbroken and regretted it. He changed today's Mianshan Mountain to Jieshan Mountain, renamed Dingyang County to Jiexiu County, and set up the "Miao Jie" in the cypress forest south of Baigou Village at the foot of Mianshan Mountain.
In order to avoid "burning the dutiful son" in the future, Jin Wengong also ordered the State of Jin not to make a fire to cook on this day, and called it "Cold Food Festival".
In order to remember and admire meson tui, future generations don't light a fire when there is "cold food", but have a cold food for one day. Later, the custom of "Cold Food Festival" spread slowly from Shanxi and became a national festival.