Is the Cold Food Festival, the day before Qingming Festival in 2019, not suitable for tomb sweeping? What is the Cold Food Festival?
Introduction: Cold Food Festival is a very ancient festival, and there are many things to pay attention to and taboos about it. So is the Cold Food Festival, the day before Qingming Festival in 2019, not suitable for tomb sweeping? What is the Cold Food Festival? Let’s follow the editor to find out! For more details about the 2019 lunar calendar for February, please visit Mr. Shuimo’s website for consultation!Is the Cold Food Festival, the day before Qingming Festival in 2019, not suitable for tomb sweeping?2019 Cold Food Festival Almanac Query:February 29, 2019 (Lunar calendar)Aries (Thursday, April 4, 2019) 【Today’s lunar calendar is suitable】 Breaking ground, drilling, building graves, burying, collecting money, hiding treasures, praying for blessings, getting married, opening business, building houses , offering sacrifices, seeking offspring, holding funerals, fasting and offering sacrifices, attending school, tailoring, seeking wealth, and wearing a hairpin [Today’s taboos in the almanac] Litigation, raising beams and erecting columns, installing beds, building construction, breaking ground, acupuncture, traveling, seeking medical advice From the above content of the old almanac, we can know that today's sacrifice [i.e. tomb sweeping and ancestor worship] is within the appropriate time of the almanac, so the day of Cold Food Festival in 2019 is suitable for tomb sweeping! Why is it not appropriate to visit graves on Cold Food Festival?It is not inappropriate to visit graves during the Cold Food Festival, but it is appropriate to do so.The customs of the Cold Food Festival include visiting graves, outings, cockfighting, swinging on swings, playing on rugs, and tug-of-war. Among them, the custom of visiting graves is a very ancient one. Wherever there is a grave, there must be tomb sacrifices. Later, as it was integrated with the custom of calling back the souls and continuing the spirits in the first three months of the lunar calendar, the sacrifices were gradually set on the Cold Food Festival. But later on, tomb sweeping was gradually integrated into the Qingming Festival. As an important festival in our country, Cold Food Festival has many meanings. Although the activities of Cold Food Festival have been transferred to Qingming Festival, the significance and value of Cold Food Festival are still immeasurable! What is Cold Food Festival?Cold Food Festival: 105 days after the winter solstice in the lunar calendar, one or two days before Qingming Festival. At the beginning of the festival, fireworks are prohibited and only cold food is eaten. In the development of later generations, customs such as tomb sweeping, outing, swings, kicking football, tug-of-war, and cockfighting were gradually added. The Cold Food Festival lasted for more than two thousand years and was once known as the largest folk festival in China. Cold Food Festival is the only traditional festival of the Han nationality that is named after a food custom.The origin of the Cold Food Festival, according to historical records: During the Spring and Autumn Period, Prince Chong'er of Jin State fled to another country for 19 years to avoid disaster. The minister Jie Zitui followed him all the time and never left him; he even "cut off his own flesh to feed the king." Chong'er worked hard to govern the country and became a famous monarch known as "Duke Wen of Jin". But Jie Zitui did not seek fame and fortune, and retired to Mianshan with his mother. In order to force him to come out to meet him, Duke Wen of Jin ordered the mountain to be set on fire. Jie Zitui refused to come out and was eventually burned to death. Duke Wen of Jin was grateful for his loyal minister's determination, so he buried him in Mianshan, built a shrine and a temple for him, and ordered that no fire be burned and only cold food be eaten on the day of Jie Zitui's death to express his grief. This is the origin of the "Cold Food Festival". Before the calendar reform by Johann Adam Schall ... The modern method of determining the 24 solar terms follows Tang's, so the Cold Food Festival is the day before Qingming Festival. The new wave of annual fortune in 2019 has already changed. Calculate your own fortune in advance, correct your mistakes if there are any, and encourage yourself if there are none, so that the new year will be smooth and safe. To calculate your new fortune in 2019, please click on the [Premium Calculation] below to learn about your new fortune. I wish you peace and happiness in the new year! |
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