A short story of Qingming Festival

A short story of Qingming Festival, Qingming Festival has a long history, originated from the ancient times of the spring festival activities, is to honor the ancestors of a cultural tradition of the festival, but also to promote filial piety of a cultural tradition of the festival. Here's a short story about the Qingming Festival.

Story 1

Legend has it that one year during the Ching Ming Festival, Chen Taiping, a general of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, was hunted down by the Qing soldiers and captured to a piece of farmland. At that time, a farmer disguised Chen Taiping as a farmer and plowed the land with himself. When the Qing soldiers failed to capture the man, they set up guard posts in nearby villages, checking everyone entering and leaving the villages to prevent anyone from bringing Chen Taiping food to eat.

When he returned home, the farmer accidentally fell on the mugwort while pondering what to bring Chen Taiping to eat. At once, he had a plan. The farmer picked some mugwort, went home, washed it and boiled it, then kneaded the green mugwort juice into the glutinous rice flour and made a green rice ball. Finally, the green-colored rice dumplings were placed in the green grass and mixed with the sentries checking at the entrance of the village.

Chen Taiping ate the green rice balls and felt that they were fragrant, sticky and not sticky, very delicious. After dark, he bypassed the Qing sentry checkpoints and returned to the barracks. Later, Chen Taiping taught this way of eating to all the generals, and with that, the custom of eating green dumplings spread.

Story 2

Qingming Festival is a traditional folk festival in China, as early as the Tang Dynasty, Qingming has become a legal holiday.

Our people have the traditional virtue of "thinking of the source of water". According to the "Dream sorghum book" records: in ancient times, every Qingming Festival this day, no matter the dignitaries, or ordinary people, will go to the grave, sweep the tomb, ancestor worship, to express respect for the ancestors and nostalgia. Sweeping tombs is the most important activity on this day. However, to this day, in some parts of China, the custom of eating cold rice on Qingming Festival is still retained.

According to legend, during the Spring and Autumn Period, the monarch of the state of Jin, Duke Xian of Jin, had a young and beautiful concubine, Li Ji. In order for her son Xi Qi to succeed the throne in the future, she killed the crown prince Shen Sheng with a poisonous plan.

Shen Sheng's younger brother, Chong Er, fled Jin to escape Li Ji's persecution, and was humiliated along the way. Once, when Chong Er fainted from hunger, his minister, Jie Zi Pui, cut off a piece of meat from his own leg, cooked it over a fire, and gave it to Chong Er to eat. After 19 years, they finally returned to the state of Jin, and Chong Er became the famous Duke of Jin in history.

Later, when Chong Er became the king of the state, he rewarded all of his exiles, except Jie Zi Tui, who refused to be rewarded and took his mother to live in seclusion in the Mian Mountains. But the fire killed Jie Zi Tui and his mother. In order to honor the memory of Jie Zi Tui, Duke Wen of Jin ordered that every year on this day, mountain fires were forbidden, and families could only eat raw and cold food.

Story 3

According to legend, at the end of the Qin Dynasty, Liu Bang, the founder of the Han Dynasty, wanted to go back to his hometown to pay homage to his parents after he had united the world, but due to the successive years of wars, the area around the ancestral hall was full of weeds and was in a state of disrepair. Although the ministry turned all over, but until dusk did not find the tablet of Liu Bang's parents.

Finally, Liu Bang had no choice but to start asking the gods. He took out a piece of paper from his sleeve and tore it into many small pieces with his hands and squeezed it in his hands. Liu Bang prayed to the heavens and said, "I hope my father and mother are alive in heaven, and if there is a piece of paper that falls on which monument even the wind can't blow, it is my father and mother's."

After saying this, Liu Bang threw the pieces of paper into the air. Sure enough, there is a piece of paper fell on a broken tablet, no matter how the wind blowing can not be blown, Liu Bang ran over to take a closer look, above really carved a Liu character.

The Story of Qingming Festival

The Story of Qingming Festival.

According to legend, during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the consort of Duke Xian of Jin, Li Ji, set up a poisonous plot to murder the crown prince Shen Sheng in order to let her son Xi Qi succeed the throne, and Shen Sheng was forced to commit suicide. Shen Sheng's younger brother, Chong Er, went into exile to avoid the disaster. While in exile, Chong Er suffered a lot of humiliation. Most of the ministers who followed him out of the country went their separate ways one after another.

Only a few loyal people were left to follow him. One of them was called Jie Zi Tui. Once, Chong Er fainted from hunger. In order to save Chong Er, Jie Zi Pui cut off a piece of meat from his thigh, roasted it on fire and gave it to Chong Er to eat. Nineteen years later, Chong Er returned to his country and became the monarch, which was Duke Wen of Jin, one of the famous Five Hegemons of the Spring and Autumn Period.

After the reign of Duke Wen of Jin, he rewarded those who had suffered with him, but forgot about Jie Zi Tui. Some people complained for Jie Zi Tui in front of Duke Wen. Duke Wen of Jin suddenly remembered the old story, the heart of shame, immediately sent people to ask the mesoteric push on the court to be rewarded by the official.

However, after a few trips, Kai Zi Tui did not come. The Duke of Jin had to go in person to invite. However, when Duke Wen arrived at Jie Zi Tui's house, the door was closed. Jie Zi Tui did not want to see him, and had already carried his mother to hide in Mianshan Mountain (southeast of present-day Jiexiu City, Shanxi Province). The Duke of Jin then sent his imperial army to search on Mian Mountain, but they did not find him.

So, someone came up with the idea that it would be better to set fire to the mountain, lighting fires on three sides and leaving one side behind, so that when the fire started, Jie Zi Tui would come out on his own. Duke Wen of Jin ordered the fire to burn the mountain, the fire burned for three days and three nights, the fire went out, after all, did not see the mesotronic push to come. Going up the mountain to see, meson push mother and son holding a big charred willow tree has died.

Duke Wen of Jin looked at the body of the mediator to cry and worship for a while, and then buried the remains, and found that the mediator pushed the spine blocked a willow tree hole, the hole seems to have something.

The ghosts under the willow will never be seen, but they will be like a counselor to the king.

If your lord has me in his heart, he will always think of himself when he remembers me.

I have no shame in the nine springs of my heart, and I am diligent in my administration and clear in my mind.

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Duke Wen of Jin hid the bloody book in his sleeve. Then he buried Jie Zi Tui and his mother separately under the big burnt willow tree. In order to commemorate Jie Zi Tui, Duke Wen of Jin ordered to change Mian Shan to "Jie Shan", built a shrine on the mountain, and designated the day of setting fire to the mountain as the Cold Food Festival, and informed the whole country that every year on this day, it is forbidden to eat fireworks and only eat cold food.

When he left, he cut a section of charred willow wood, to the palace to make a pair of wooden clogs, and every day looked at it and sighed: "Woe to the foot."

The next year, the Duke of Jin led a group of ministers in plain clothes to pay homage on foot, to express their condolences. When he arrived at the grave, he saw the old willow tree come back to life, with thousands of green branches, dancing in the wind. The Duke of Jin looked at the resurrected old willow tree, as if he had seen Jie Zi Tui.

He respectfully went to the front, cherished a pinch of the branch, and wove a circle to wear on his head.

The story of the Qingming Festival is brief.3

According to legend, during the Spring and Autumn Period, Li Ji, the favorite of Duke Xian of Jin, wanted her son Xi Qi to succeed the throne, so she designed to murder Prince Shen Sheng. The prince was forced to commit suicide. After Shen Sheng's death, his younger brother Chong Er had to go into exile to escape from the war. Chong Er was later the Duke of Jin, modest and studious, good at making friends with talented people, there is no shortage of talented friends around.

During his days of exile, Chong Er suffered a lot of humiliation, and when his future was uncertain, his subjects abandoned him one after another, leaving only a few loyal people around him. Chong'er had traveled a great deal during this period of time.

Once, Chong Er was so tired and hungry that he almost fainted, so his vassal, Jie Zi Tui, cut off a piece of meat from his thigh to make soup for Chong Er, who was moved to tears when he learned about it.

In the spring of 636 BC, with the support of Duke Mu of Qin, Chong Er returned to Jin and killed Duke Huai of Jin. At this point, after 19 years of exile, Chong Er succeeded as the king of the state, namely Duke Wen of Jin. When Duke Wen of Jin became the king of the country, he naturally rewarded his ministers who had followed him into exile.

But Duke Wen forgot about Jie Zi Tui, the man who cut his flesh to feed the hungry during his exile. But what about Jie Zi Tui? He was a man indifferent to fame and fortune, so he went to Mianshan Mountain to live in seclusion. When Duke Wen realized his mistake, he sent his men around to look for Jie Zi push. After learning that Jie Zi Tui lived in Mian Mountain, Duke Wen ordered his men to search the mountain, but they did not find Jie Zi Tui. In a hurry, Duke Wen burned Mianshan Mountain to force Jie Zi push to appear, but did not realize that this killed Jie Zi push.

By the time Duke Wen found Jie Zi push, he was dead under an old dead willow tree with his mother on his back. Jie Zi Tui left his last words, "I cut my flesh to serve my lord, but I wish my lord would always be clear". Duke Wen of Jin, who was y grieved, designated this day as the Cold Food Festival.

The next year, Duke Wen of Jin led his ministers to pay tribute to Jie Zi Tui, and found that the old willow tree, which had been burned to death last year, had actually come back to life. And he broke a few willow sticks and put them on his head to show his nostalgia.

From then on, Qingming willow wear willow become a symbol to commemorate the jiezi push. Although after more than two thousand years of evolution, the Qingming Festival in different parts of the world also developed different customs, such as tug-of-war, swinging, cockfighting, etc., but tomb-sweeping and ancestor worship is still a thousand years of the same theme.