The Cold Food Festival is a traditional festival in China, after the summer solstice and one or two days before Tomb-Sweeping Day. When the first day of the day is a holiday, smoking is forbidden and only cold food is eaten. In the development of later generations, the customs of sweeping, climbing, swinging, cuju, crochet and cockfighting were gradually increased. The Cold Food Festival lasted for more than 2,000 years and was once called the largest folk festival in China. Cold Food Festival is the only traditional festival of Han nationality named after food customs.
Cold food is a seven-character quatrain written by Han Yi, a poet in Tang Dynasty. The first two sentences of this poem describe the scenery during the day, the charming spring scenery and the scenery in the palace in Liu Xufei, Chang 'an.
The last two sentences are about the night scene, which vividly draws a picture of candles at night, making people see the light of candles and smell the faint smoke. The whole poem is realistic by line drawing, depicting the royal style, full of intoxication of the spring scenery of the imperial capital and singing of Chengping in the prosperous times. From the emperor at that time to the ordinary courtiers, they all preferred the poem and always spoke highly of it.
Cold Food Festival is a traditional festival in ancient China, which usually takes place from winter to the day after 105 and two days before Tomb-Sweeping Day. The ancients attached great importance to this festival. According to the custom, every family banned fire and only ate ready-made food, hence the name cold food. In the system of the Tang Dynasty, on Qingming Day, the emperor announced that he would take the fire of elms and willows as a reward for his recent ministers to show his gratitude.
This ceremony has two purposes: first, it marks the end of the Cold Food Festival, and fire can be used; The second is to remind courtiers and officials, so that everyone can learn from mesons who have made meritorious deeds but not rewarded, and work diligently for the people. In fact, Dou Shu, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, once wrote a poem entitled "Making a Fire at the Cold Food Festival": "Grateful for the light and small officials, the lights are on at the beginning of spring. The film follows the ambassador and the stars shine on passers-by. Fortunately, the willows are warm and the grass is poor. " You can use this poem of Han Yi for reference.
The significance of the Cold Food Festival:
Historically, the activities of the Cold Food Festival have gradually evolved from commemorating mesons to advocating smoking, cold food and 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 activity to commemorate the revolutionary martyrs. 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.