What is the origin of the Cold Food Festival? What traditional foods are eaten during the Cold Food Festival?
Tour Guide: Cold Food Festival is an important and traditional festival, but the origins of Cold Food Festival are also different. So what is the origin of Cold Food Festival? What traditional foods are eaten during Cold Food Festival? A year's plan begins with spring. The wind in February of the lunar calendar officially brings spring, and the weather is gradually getting warmer. Shuimoxiansheng.com will interpret every day of February of the lunar calendar in 2019 for you!What is the origin of Cold Food Festival?Ancient times <br /> The origin of the Cold Food Festival should be the fire worship of ancient humans. The life of the ancients could not be separated from fire, but fire often caused great disasters to mankind, so the ancients believed that fire had a spirit and they had to worship fire. The fire that each family worships must be extinguished once a year. Then relighting a new fire is called changing the fire. When changing the fire, a grand ceremony of ancestor worship is held, during which symbols of the grain god Ji are burned, which is called human sacrifice. This custom was passed down and later became the Fire Ban Festival.Spring and Autumn Period <br /> The Fire Ban Festival was later transformed into the Cold Food Festival to commemorate Jie Zitui, a famous minister and righteous man of the State of Jin during the Spring and Autumn Period. Legend has it that when Duke Wen of Jin was in exile, Jie Zitui cut off his own flesh to feed him. After Duke Wen of Jin returned to his country and became king, he forgot Jie Zitui when he was enfeoffing his ministers. Jie Zitui was unwilling to boast about his achievements and seek favor, so he lived in seclusion in Mianshan with his old mother. Later, Duke Wen of Jin went to Mianshan in person to invite Jie Zitui, but Jie Zitui did not want to be an official and hid in the mountains. Duke Wen of Jin's men set fire to the mountain in an attempt to force Jie Zitui to reveal himself. However, Jie Zitui was burned to death under a tree while holding his mother. In order to commemorate this loyal and righteous man, people did not light a fire to cook on the day of Jie Zitui's death. Instead, they ate cold food, which was called the Cold Food Festival. Wei and Jin Dynasties <br /> During the Han Dynasty, people in Shanxi banned fire for a month to commemorate the event. During the Three Kingdoms period, Emperor Cao Cao of Wei ordered the abolition of this custom. There are such words in "The Secret Fa Order", "I heard that Taiyuan, Shangdang and Yanmen all ban fire and eat cold food 150 days after the winter solstice. It is said to be for Zitui", "The order prohibits people from eating cold food. Those who violate the order will be sentenced to half a year in prison for the head of the family, 100 days in prison for the chief clerk, and one month's salary will be deprived of the chief". After the Three Kingdoms were unified by the Jin Dynasty, because the name was the same as the "Jin" of the Jin State in the Spring and Autumn Period, people paid special attention to the history of the Jin area, and the custom of banning fire and celebrating the cold food festival in memory of Jie Zitui was restored. However, the time was shortened to three days. At the same time, the idea of commemorating Jie Zitui on Cold Food Festival was spread to all parts of the country, so Cold Food Festival became a national festival, and banning fire and eating cold food on Cold Food Festival became a common custom of the Han nationality. What traditional food is eaten during Cold Food Festival?Cold Food Porridge : During the Cold Food Festival, people are not allowed to use fireworks at home and must prepare cold food such as wheat porridge to commemorate the occasion. Cold Food Porridge is a festival food that has been passed down since the Cold Food Festival.Qingjing Rice : Also known as black rice, black rice, and black rice, it is rice cooked with glutinous rice dyed with the juice of the black rice tree. It is dark in color and is one of the foods of the Cold Food Festival. On the third day of March every year, every She ethnic group household cooks "Wunen Rice" and gives it to their Han relatives and friends. Over time, the local Han people also developed the custom of eating "Wunen Rice" during the Qingming Festival. Runbingcai : also known as Runbing and Nenbingcai, it is a kind of spring roll. It originated in Quanzhou and then became popular in Taiwan and Fujian. During the Qingming Festival, people in Quanzhou have the custom of eating "runbingcai". It is said that this is a legacy of the ancient Cold Food Festival diet customs. Sugar : That is modern maltose, which was a special food for the Cold Food Festival in ancient times. "There is no Cold Food Festival overseas, and no sugar in spring", "There is no sugar for Cold Food Festival in the distant city". Snake-coated rabbit : a kind of noodle dish, it is a must-have delicacy for the Qingming Cold Food Festival in Shanxi with a history of 2,500 years. Snake and Rabbit are made with flour into the shapes of "snake" and "rabbit". The "snake" represents Jie Zitui's mother, and the "rabbit" represents Jie Zitui himself. The "snake" and "rabbit" are entangled together to express filial piety. There is also a proverb that has been passed down: "When a snake coils around a rabbit, you will definitely be rich." There are dozens of kinds of cold food drinks, including spring wine, new tea, spring water, etc. People in southern Shanxi are accustomed to eating jelly, cold noodles, cold cakes, etc. 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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