What festival is on the fifth day of the fourth lunar month? What are the traditional customs?

What festival is on the fifth day of the fourth lunar month? What are the traditional customs?
Introduction: The lunar calendar is my country's traditional calendar, and it is also known as the lunar calendar, Chinese calendar, Xia calendar, Han calendar, and national calendar. There are many lunar festivals in my country. So, what festival is on the fifth day of the fourth lunar month? What are the traditional customs? Let’s take a look at it together below! April is the most beautiful month in the world. April is a very beautiful month. In late spring and early summer, all things are new and many good beginnings appear in this month.

What festival is on the fifth day of the fourth lunar month?

The fifth day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar is the Cold Food Festival.

Introduction to Cold Food Festival

Cold Food Festival is also known as the "No Smoking Festival", "Cold Festival" and "Hundred and Five Festival". One hundred and five days after the winter solstice in the lunar calendar, one or two days before Qingming Festival. On this day, fireworks are prohibited and only cold food is eaten, so it is called "Cold Food Festival". In the development of later generations, customs such as tomb sweeping, outing, swings, Cuju, hook pulling, and egg fighting were gradually added. The Cold Food Festival has lasted for more than two thousand years and was once known as the largest festival among the people. Many men of letters have written poems about the Cold Food Festival.

What are the customs of Cold Food Festival?

No smoking and cold food The Cold Food Festival was also called the "No Smoking Festival" in ancient times. Every family was forbidden to light fire and eat cold food. However, due to the Chinese people's persistent feeling of commemorating the ancient sages, it was banned and revived repeatedly from the Eastern Han Dynasty to the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and the royal family of the Tang Dynasty recognized and participated in it.
Tomb sweeping and ancestor worship on Cold Food Festival was regarded as "wild sacrifice" from the Southern and Northern Dynasties to the Tang Dynasty. In the Tang Dynasty, it was included in "Kaiyuan Ritual" "Volume 87: Worship and Sweeping for Kings and Dukes and Below (Attached to the Worship and Sweeping for Cold Food Festival)" and became one of the auspicious ceremonies officially recognized and advocated. Later it evolved into the royal family offering sacrifices to the tombs; government officials offering sacrifices to the Confucius Temple and to the sages; and the common people visiting the graves, etc. At that time, a family or a clan would go to the ancestral grave together, offer sacrifices, add soil, hang paper money, then scatter Zitui Swallow, Snake and Rabbit on the top of the grave and roll them down, then string them up with willow branches or knotty needles and place them in a high place in the room, in the hope of receiving the ancestors' virtues.
Cold Food Food includes Cold Food Porridge, Cold Food Noodles, Cold Food Soup, Green Rice and Sugar; Cold Food Offerings include Noodles, Snake-coated Rabbit, Date Cakes, Fine Barley, God's Rice and so on; Beverages include Spring Wine, New Tea, Clear Spring Sweet Water and dozens of other kinds. Most of them have profound meanings. For example, offering snakes coiled around rabbits as sacrifices means that there is a saying that "snakes coiled around rabbits will surely bring wealth", which means hoping for the people to be rich and the country to be strong; Zitui Yan is taken from the Jiexiu dialect "Nian Nian", which means not to forget Jietui's noble character...
Planting willows during the Cold Food Festival Willow is a symbol of the Cold Food Festival, originally meant to commemorate Jie Zitui's pursuit of political clarity. As early as the Southern and Northern Dynasties, there was a record in "Jingchu Sui Shi Ji" that "on the Cold Food Day in the Jianghuai area, every family would break willow branches and insert them into the door." In Anhui, Suzhou and other places, it was also popular to wear mustard flowers and wheat leaves instead of willow branches. According to historical records from various places: "willows are planted on graves", "willow branches are broken off and marked on doors", "willows are planted on eaves, in bedrooms and kitchens", "also worn on the head or tied as a belt", "stored in bottles and offered to Buddha and gods", "willows are planted on doors", so there is a saying among the people that "if you don't wear willows during Qingming (Cold Food Festival), your beauty will turn into white hair".
The Cold Food Festival outing is also called spring outing and was popular in the Tang and Song dynasties. Song Dynasty Li Zhiyan's "What I Saw in Donggu" records: "After paying respects and sweeping the ground, he went sightseeing with his brothers, wife, relatives and close friends, and returned home happily." The Ming Dynasty's "A Brief Account of Emperor's Scenery" records the outing scene in the capital as follows: "On the Qingming Festival (Cold Food Festival) every year, the people of the capital go outing. There are tens of thousands of people in carriages, on horseback, and on foot." It can be said to be a grand occasion.
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