Hello everyone, I'm talking about poetry casually.
Today's cold food festival Ha, we are not this festival now, but in ancient times, this is still a very important festival. And it is a very long-standing traditional festival.
Cold Food Legend
According to legend, during the Spring and Autumn Period, the Prince of the Jin Dynasty was exiled to other countries for 19 years, and the minister Jiezi Tui always followed around, and later Chong'er became the Duke of Jin Wen, but the Zi Tui returned to the hidden mountains and forests. Heavy ear sent people to ask the meson to push out the mountain to continue to assist himself, but he was refused, so he ordered the mountain to be burned, in fact, he also frightened and frightened the meson to push, who knew that this old brother had an iron head, and he was stunned that he burned himself to death and did not go down the mountain.
Heavy ear was very regretful, pushed the meson to a thick burial, and built a temple to sacrifice, and also ordered that the meson push was not burned to death, that from now on, the death day of the meson push, the whole country is not allowed to light a fire, to express the mourning for the meson push.
Gradually, the traditional festival of cold food festival was formed.
Fire and cold food are prohibited
So why not call it the Fire Festival, but the Cold Food Festival? In fact, the cold food festival really has another name, called the non-smoking festival, and also called the cold festival. So why is it called the Cold Food Festival?
This is related to the ancient people's life with fire, you know that the ancient fire is not easy, the beginning are drilling wood for fire, with flint to knock fire has been a long time later, so after people take the fire, they must keep the fire, the burning charcoal buried in the grass ash, so that the charcoal fire will not be extinguished, when you need to use the fire and then take the flammable products to ignite, eliminating the cumbersome need to drill wood for fire every time.
At this point, the fire must be maintained for a whole year, until the next year's Cold Food Festival is completely extinguished. This fire is called the old fire.
When the cold food has passed and the Qingming has arrived, we will re-take the fire, which is called changing the fire, and this fire is called the new fire.
Ancient cold food festival in the Qingming Festival to last for three days, people have to prepare cooked food a few days in advance, there is no fire for these three days, you can only eat cold food, so called cold food festival.
Cold Food Poetry
The Tang and Song dynasties all paid great attention to the cold food festival, and every year the palace had to feast on hundreds of officials, of course, they still ate cold food, and when the sun was dusk, the banquet dispersed, and the emperor also gave the hundred officials a new fire. Therefore, in the poetry of the Tang and Song Dynasties, there are also many works related to the Cold Food Festival.
The Tang Dynasty poet Han Hong had a poem called "Cold Food":
Spring City is full of flowers, cold food east wind royal willow oblique.
Candles were passed down at the Han Palace, and light smoke spread into the Wuhou family.
You see, this poem writes very clearly about the custom of giving new fires in the Tang Palace, which is not only a poem, but also a documentary of customs.
The Song Dynasty had Su Shi, didn't mention "changing fire" earlier, Su Shi's "Linjiang Xian Send Qian Mu Father" has the sentence "One don't block the door and change the fire three times, and the end of the world is full of red dust".
Of course, Su Shi's most famous is "Cold Food and Rain Two Songs":
One
Since I came to Huangzhou, I have passed three cold foods.
Every year wants to cherish the spring, and the spring is not to be regretted.
This year is raining again, and autumn is sluggish in February.
Smell the begonia flowers, muddy swallow fat snow.
Stealing in the dark, the night is really powerful.
He Shu was a sick teenager, and his illness began to be white.
Second
The Spring River wants to enter the house, and the rain is coming.
The hut is like a fishing boat, in the clouds.
Cook cold vegetables in the empty room, and burn wet reeds on a broken stove.
It is known that it is cold food, but see the black paper.
The king's gate is nine times deep, and the tomb is in the thousands of miles.
I also want to cry poorly, and I can't afford to blow ashes.
This is Su Shi's tragic life after he was degraded to Huangzhou, "empty boiled cold vegetables, broken stove burning wet reeds", there is no colder food under the sky, that day the miserable Mr. Su Shi borrowed wine to pour sorrow, the result was more and more sad, the whole person was emo, the pen wrote these two poems, the level of poetry can not represent the highest level of Su Shi, but that character, is the world's third line of the book "Cold Food Post", in front of him is Wang Xizhi's "Orchid Pavilion Collection" and Yan Zhenqing's "Sacrifice Nephew Manuscript".
Well, this is the story of the Cold Food Festival, I am casually talking about poetry, pointing me a thumbs up, my hands have residual incense, we will see you tomorrow, pray bye~