During the Spring and Autumn Period, Zhong Er of Jin Wengong was exiled. He was tired and hungry on the road. He cut a piece of meat from his thigh and made soup for Zhong Er. Zhong Er was very grateful when he learned that. When Jin Wengong acceded to the throne, he forgot to praise the minister, but Jiexiu didn't want fame and fortune and lived in Mianshan. Zhong Er regretted it and burned Mianshan to find it. Afterwards, he found that Xie tui died in a withered Liuxia behind his mother's back, and left his last words: "May your master always be clear."
To commemorate meson tui, Jin Wengong designated this day as Cold Food Festival. In the second year, Jin Wengong climbed a mountain to pay homage, and the willow tree actually came back to life, so he gave the old willow the title of "Qingming Willow" and took the day after the cold food as Tomb-Sweeping Day.
Second, Tomb-Sweeping Day's poems:
1, Qingming (Don Mutu)
A drizzling rain falls like tears on the Mourning Day; The mourner's heart is going to break on his way.
Ask local people where to buy wine? The shepherd boy just laughed and didn't answer Xingshan Village.
2. Tomb-Sweeping Day (North Leaf)
I have lived in Tomb-Sweeping Day without flowers and wine. Like a monk in a temple, everything is depressing and lonely for me.
Yesterday, I discussed new kindling from my neighbor's house, and early in Tomb-Sweeping Day, I lit in front of the window and sat down to study.
3. Chang 'an Qingming Yanhuai (Tang Gu Xiong Fei)
In the Ming Dynasty, when Emperor Li met Qingming, he also drove tourists out of the Forbidden City.
The nine-stranger wheatgrass warbler crows, and a thousand chariots and horses rain and clear.
It's the first time I met a guest today, and I'm tired of seeing flowers in my sorrow.
Who's in charge in spring, it's even more futile.
Third, the customs of Tomb-Sweeping Day:
Tomb-Sweeping Day's custom of offering sacrifices to ancestors has been passed down from generation to generation and has become a fixed custom of the Chinese nation. Although the custom of forbidding fire and cold food in Tomb-Sweeping Day became a national folk custom only in the Song Dynasty, the custom of sweeping graves to worship ancestors in Tomb-Sweeping Day has a long history.
In addition to visiting graves, the custom of Tomb-Sweeping Day has absorbed a series of folk sports activities in its historical development, such as swinging, cuju, polo and willow planting.
The custom of sweeping graves to worship ancestors in Tomb-Sweeping Day has continued since ancient times. Even in today's society, people still visit graves around Tomb-Sweeping Day to pay homage to their ancestors: uprooting weeds, placing offerings, burning incense and praying in front of graves, burning paper money and gold ingots, or simply offering a bunch of flowers to express their memory of their ancestors.