Cold Food Festival is an ancient festival in China. The main festivals are memorial service, spring outing and play. With the development of society, China Cold Food Festival has been completely integrated with Tomb-Sweeping Day, and few people remember this festival.

According to historical records, during the Spring and Autumn Period, Zhong Er, the son of the State of Jin, fled to other countries and lived in exile for 19 years. Minister Jiezitui always followed around and never gave up. Even "stock trading."

Zhong Er tried to become a famous monarch "Jin Wengong". But meson tui didn't want to make a fortune, so he lived in seclusion with his mother in Mianshan. Jin Wengong ordered the release of Yamakaji to force him out of the mountain, but meson was determined not to go out of the mountain and eventually died in a fire.

Jin Wengong remembered his loyalty, buried him in Mianshan, built a shrine and a temple, and ordered the prohibition of cold food on the day of Jiexiu to express his grief. This is the origin of the "Cold Food Festival".

Before the calendar reform in the early Qing Dynasty, the Cold Food Festival was held two days after Tomb-Sweeping Day, and the day before Tomb-Sweeping Day after the reform of Tangjiafa. The definition of the modern twenty-four solar terms follows that of the Tang Dynasty, so the Cold Food Festival is the day before Tomb-Sweeping Day.

The story of the Cold Food Festival:

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 became a hero. Only meson push refused to accept the reward. He took his mother to live in seclusion in Mianshan and refused to come out.

Jin Wengong had no choice but to let go of Yamakaji and force him to go down the mountain. Who knows that the mother and son would rather be burned to death than come out. To commemorate Jiezitui, Jin Wengong ordered Mianshan to be renamed Jieshan, and a temple was built to erect a monument. At the same time, it was also ordered that on the day when the meson was pushed to death, "cold food was forbidden to fire", and the whole country was not allowed to bake food with fire, only dry food and cold food could be eaten.

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The significance of the Cold Food Festival:

The activities of the Cold Food Festival mainly focus on banning smoking and cold food, and gradually evolved into ancestor worship. The concept of loyalty, filial piety and honesty contained in it fully conforms to the traditional moral core of China's ancient countries' need for loyalty and filial piety, and has become an important carrier of family harmony and social stability.

In modern times, the Cold Food Festival has become an important form of remembering revolutionary martyrs and educating young people. At the same time, during the Cold Food Festival, compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan and overseas Chinese returned to their hometowns to pay homage to their ancestors, which became an important festival to inherit the Chinese nation's ancestral culture and reflect national identity and cohesion.

Cold Food Festival is the day before Tomb-Sweeping Day. The ancients often extended the activities of the Cold Food Festival to Qingming. Over time, people combine cold food with Qingming. After the late Tang Dynasty and the Song Dynasty, the custom of forbidding fire and cold food gradually faded and declined. In the Yuan Dynasty, many people basically stopped using this custom. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the Cold Food Festival no longer banned fire, and people were not required to eat cold food.

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