Tomb-Sweeping Day was related to Jin Wengong and Zhong Er, the five tyrants in the Spring and Autumn Period. Zhong Er's earlobe is very big, his ribs are connected together, and there are two eyes in one eye. There was civil strife in the state of Jin, and the sons Yiwu and Zhong Er fled outside. The son Yiwu killed Prince Kim and was even more rude to him. Zhong Er had to go with Hu Yan, Jie Zitui and others. On the way, Zhong Er, the son, was dying because he swallowed weeds for days, but where is a doctor in the wild mountains? In order to cut off a piece of thigh meat for his master, Jiezitui made a fire and gave the broth to Zhong Er. He recovered.
He went to the State of Qin, and with the help of Qin Mugong, he returned to the State of Jin and became an official in A Jin. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Jin Wengong sealed all his active ministers. Someone told him that the broth was pushed by mesons, saying that Zhong Er forgot to seal mesons. So he regretted forgetting to promote the title for meson, but now that six ministers have done it, he went to ask meson to promote him to be an official. Who knows that Jie Zitui lived in seclusion in Mianshan, and Wen Gong never forgot his roots. He personally went to Mianshan to invite him, but he couldn't find him.
Someone has come up with a bad idea: burning the mountain will let him out. But Jiezitui and his mother just couldn't get out, and then they burned two old willows in their arms. Wen Gong ordered the whole country to mourn Jiexiu, renamed Mianshan Jiexiu, and stipulated that it was forbidden to burn fire and insert willows on this day every year, and designated April 5 as Qingming Festival, also known as Cold Food Festival.
For two thousand years, we in China have always attached great importance to this festival. In Tomb-Sweeping Day, every household doesn't need fire one day, but only eats some vegetables or green dumplings the next day. Recently, our country has designated it as a legal holiday. Let people have time to worship their ancestors, sweep graves and hike.
Tomb-Sweeping Day symbolizes the tradition of China for thousands of years, showing the loyalty and feelings of China people and the gratitude of China people. Because of this, I like Tomb-Sweeping Day best.
The following is some information about the origin of Tomb-Sweeping Day, hoping to help you:
The traditional Tomb-Sweeping Day in China began in the Zhou Dynasty and has a history of more than 2,500 years. Tomb-Sweeping Day is first of all a very important solar term. As soon as Tomb-Sweeping Day arrives, the temperature rises, which is a good season for spring ploughing and planting. Therefore, there is a saying that "melons and beans are planted before and after Qingming". Agricultural proverb "Planting trees is not as clear as Qingming". Later, as the days of Qingming and cold food approached, cold food was the day when people banned fire to sweep graves. Gradually, cold food and Qingming became one, and cold food became another name of Qingming and became a custom of Qingming. On Qingming Day, there are no fireworks, only cold food.
There is a legend about cold food:
According to legend, in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Jin Xiangong's concubine killed the prince in order to let her son inherit the throne, and Shen Sheng was forced to commit suicide. Shen Sheng's younger brother, Zhong Er, went into exile to escape the scourge. During his exile, Zhong Er suffered humiliation. Most of the courtiers who went out with him went out one after another. Only a few loyal people have been following him. One of them is called meson push. On one occasion, Zhong Er fainted from hunger. In order to save Zhong Er, Jiezitui cut a piece of meat from his leg, cooked it with fire and gave it to Zhong Er. Nineteen years later, Zhong Er returned to China and became the monarch, that is, Jin Wengong, one of the famous five tyrants in the Spring and Autumn Period.
After Jin Wengong came to power, in addition to meson push, he offered many rewards to courtiers who shared his joys and sorrows. Someone defended meson in front of Jin Wengong. Jin Wengong suddenly remembered the past and felt guilty. He immediately sent someone to ask meson to take the imperial court to be rewarded as an official. However, after several trips, the meson could not be pushed. Jin Wengong had to please. However, when Jin Wengong came to the meson pusher's house, he saw that the door was closed. Jiezitui didn't want to see him, and had already been hiding in Mianshan (now southeast of Jiexiu County, Shanxi Province) behind his mother's back. Jin Wengong asked his body guard to search Mianshan, but he couldn't find it. So, someone had an idea, saying, it is better to let Yamakaji go, set fire on three sides, leave one side, burn it and the meson will come out. Jin Wengong ordered the promotion of Yamakaji. Unexpectedly, the fire burned for three days and nights. After the fire was put out, the meson was not pushed out after all. Looking up the mountain, the mother and son were holding a charred willow tree and were dead. Jin Wengong looked at meson push's body and cried for a while. Then I buried the body and found that the back of meson push was blocked by a willow hole, as if there was something. Take out a look, turned out to be a skirt, with a blood poem:
I hope your master is always clear.
It is better to be a ghost than to accompany you as an exhorter.
If your master has me in his heart, remember that I often reflect.
I have a clear conscience in Jiuquan, diligent and honest.
Jin Wengong hid the bloody book in his sleeve. Then meson tui and his mother were buried under the charred willow tree. To commemorate Jiexiu, Jin Wengong ordered Mianshan to be changed to Jiexiu Mountain, and an ancestral temple was built on the mountain, and the day when Yamakaji was released was designated as the Cold Food Festival, telling the whole country that it is forbidden to set off fireworks and firecrackers on this day every year and only eat cold food.
When he left, he cut a charred willow and made a pair of clogs in the palace. He looked at it every day and sighed, "What a pity." The "first step" is the name of ancient people's subordinates respecting each other between superiors or peers, which is said to come from it.
The following year, Jin Wengong led his ministers to go hiking in plain clothes to show their respect and condolences. Walking to the grave, I saw the dead old willow tree resurrected, with thousands of green branches dancing in the wind. Jin Wengong looked at the resurrected old willow tree and seemed to see the meson push. He walked up to him respectfully, lovingly squeezed a branch, braided it into a circle and put it on his head. After the sacrifice, Jin Wengong named the revived old willow "Qingming Willow" and named it Tomb-Sweeping Day.
Later, Jin Wengong often took a bloody book with him as a souvenir, urging himself to take power. He is diligent and honest, and strives to govern the country well.
Since then, the people of Jin have been able to live and work in peace and contentment, and they are very nostalgic for Jietui, who has made outstanding contributions and is not looking for wealth. On the day of his death, it is forbidden to set off fireworks in memory of him. It is also made of flour and jujube paste into the shape of a swallow, strung with willows and inserted in the door to summon his soul. This thing is called "pushing swallows" (also called intermediary pushing). Since then, cold food and Qingming have become grand festivals for the people of the whole country. Whenever there is cold food, people don't make a fire to cook, but only eat cold food. In the north, people only eat cold food prepared in advance, such as jujube cakes and wheat cakes. In the south, there are mostly green balls and glutinous rice and sugar lotus roots. Every time I go to Tomb-Sweeping Day, people put wicker in a circle and put wicker branches in front of the house to show their memory.