I hope your master is always clear.
It is better to be a ghost than to accompany you as an exhorter.
If your master has me in his heart, remember that I often reflect.
I have a clear conscience in Jiuquan, diligent and honest.
Vernacular translation:
Cut off my flesh and give it to your master to show my loyalty. I hope your master can always be honest and clean. It is better to be a ghost under the willow tree after death than to remonstrate with the master, and never see the master again. If I am in your master's heart, I hope that when you think of me, you can always reflect on yourself. After my death, I had a clear conscience in Jiuquan. I hope you will always be diligent and honest.
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During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Zhong Er, the younger brother of Jin Xiangong's son Shen Sheng, fled abroad to escape the scourge. During his exile, Zhong Er was humiliated, and finally only a few people remained, who followed him all the time. One of them is called meson push. On one occasion, Zhong Er fainted from hunger. In order to save Zhong Er, Jiezitui cut a piece of meat from his leg, cooked it with fire and gave it to Zhong Er.
Nineteen years later, Zhong Er returned to China and became the monarch, that is, Jin Wengong, one of the famous five tyrants in the Spring and Autumn Period. After Jin Wengong came to power, in addition to meson push, he offered many rewards to courtiers who shared his joys and sorrows. Someone defended meson in front of Jin Wengong. Jin Wengong sent someone to ask Jietui to bring the imperial court rewards and punishments, but Jietui refused to come.
Jin Wengong went in person, but Jiezitui has been hiding behind his mother's back in Mianshan. Jin Wengong asked his body guard to search Mianshan, but he couldn't find it. Zhao Shuai, Hu Yan and others put forward plans to release Yamakaji, forcing mesons to push him and his mother down the mountain. Hearing this, Jin Wengong ordered to do it. The fire burned for three days and nights, but not a meson was pushed out. The fire lasted for several miles and was extinguished after three days; But the meson push still hasn't come out.
After the fire, Jin Wengong found the bones of Mu Zi's mother and son under a withered willow tree. Jin Wengong was very sad. When he was crying and burying the body, he found something in the willow hole behind the meson push. He took it out and saw a poem in blood on the skirt:
I hope your master is always clear. It is better to be a ghost than to accompany you as an exhorter. If your master has me in his heart, remember that I often reflect. I have a clear conscience in Jiuquan, diligent and honest.
Jin Wengong was scared, looked at the body of meson tui, cried and bowed down repeatedly, hid the bloody book in his sleeve, and buried meson tui and his mother under the charred willow tree. Because the word "Qingming" appeared three times in Jie Zitui's poems, Jin Wengong named this willow Qingming Willow, and named the day when Yamakaji was released as Tomb-Sweeping Day.
To commemorate meson push, in the first three days in Tomb-Sweeping Day, people banned fire and smoking, ate cold food for three meals, and did not cook with a fire. These three days are called "Cold Food Festival".