Qingming, a traditional Chinese festival, originated from the ancient people's belief in ancestors and spring festival rituals.
Qingming was originally the name of a festival, evolving into a festival commemorating ancestors, associated with the Cold Food Festival.
During the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a famous figure named Jiezi Tui, who followed the Prince of Jin to 8 countries and went into exile for 19 years. In the process of fleeing for life and death, Zhong'er and Suichen Jiezi Tui cut off a piece of meat on his leg, boiled it into soup, saved the heavy ear that was about to starve to death, and finally helped Jin Wengong return to China to seize the throne.
The meson did not seek fame and fortune, retired from the army, lived in seclusion in the mountains, and never came back for the rest of his life.
Zhong'er became the monarch and rewarded all those who followed him during his exile, but forgot about the meson push. Someone pushed and screamed for the meson in front of the heavy ear, and the heavy ear suddenly remembered the old thing, felt ashamed in his heart, and sent someone to ask the meson to push the court to be rewarded. Sent people to go a few times, the meson push has not come, helpless, heavy ears will personally go to please. When Zhong'er came to Jiezi Tui's home, he saw that the door was closed, and asked about his neighbors, Fang Zhi Jiezi Tui did not want to see him, and hid in Mianshan with his old mother on his back. Therefore, Heavy Ear asked his Imperial Forest Army to search up the Mianshan Mountains. People search in front of the mountain, the meson pushes the old mother to the back mountain, the person searches in the back mountain, and the meson pushes the old mother to the front mountain. The mountain is high and dangerous, the trees are thick, the rocks are lined up, and one or two people hide in the mountains, like a needle in a haystack, searching around, not even a shadow.
At this time, some people offered a plan to say that it was better to set fire to the mountain, light a fire on three sides, and leave one side. When the fire starts, the meson pushes it out on its own. Therefore, Zhong'er ordered the burning of Mianshan Mountain. Mountains full of dead wood and hay, in case of fire, the wind blows and fire, the mountains are red, and smoke clouds cover the sky. The front and back mountains, the left mountain and the right mountain, burned out when they saw it, and finally did not see the meson pushing out of the Mianshan Mountain. After the fire was extinguished, I saw the meson pushing the old mother on her back and dying against a large charred willow tree. Looking heavily at the corpse pushed by the meson, he knelt down for a while and cried loudly. After crying for a while, moving the body to be buried, I found that the spine pushed by the meson was blocked with the willow tree hole, and there seemed to be something in the hole, and when I took it out to see, it turned out to be a piece of clothing, and a few lines of writing were written in blood on the placket:
Cut the flesh and serve the king with all his heart,
May the Lord always be clear.
The ghost under the willow is finally gone,
Strong as a companion to the king as a courtier.
If the Lord has me in his heart,
I often reflect on myself.
The subject is not ashamed in the Nine Springs,
Diligent government and clean government.
Looking at it again, he folded the blood book hem of the meson and hid it in his sleeve, and then pushed the meson and his mother and buried them under the big willow tree with burnt scorched branches and beards. In order to avoid fireworks, this day was set as the Cold Food Festival, and the whole country was told, and the cold food was a day.
The next year, Zhong'er led the courtiers to Mianshan To pay their respects, first eating cold food at the bottom of the mountain for a day, and then hiking in plain clothes the next day, climbing the mountain to mourn. When I went to the grave, I saw that the dead willow was resurrected, and thousands of tender silks danced with the wind. Heavy ears moved, looking at the resurrected old willow tree, as if he saw the meson pushing, he walked to the front, pinched a little, and made a circle to wear on his head. The courtiers saw the lord wearing willow and also learned to fold the willow plug. After the monarchs and courtiers wore the willow sacrifice and swept it, they gave the resurrected old willow tree the name Of the Qingming Willow, and set this day as the Qingming Festival.
Heavy ears often carried the blood book placket of the meson with him as a motto to spur himself to govern. Later, he was diligent and clear-cut, governed the country well, and later became one of the five hegemons of the Spring and Autumn Period, that is, the famous Jin Wengong in history. The people lived and worked in peace and contentment, and they were very grateful to the meson who had made meritorious contributions to death, and since then, Qingming has become a grand festival for the people of the whole country.
The main custom of the Qingming Festival is to sweep the grave and sacrifice and remember the ancestors, which is also a fine tradition of the Chinese nation since ancient times, which is not only conducive to promoting filial piety and family affection, awakening the common memory of the family, but also promoting the cohesion and identity of family members and even the nation.
The qingming festival culture has a long history, and many literati and inkers have left classic poems. Today, let's enjoy the famous works that describe Qingming.
《Qingming》
--Don Du Mu
During the Qingming Dynasty, the rain is pouring,
Pedestrians on the road want to break their souls.
Where is the restaurant?
The shepherd boy refers to the apricot blossom village.
"Clear Night"
--Don Bai Juyi
Good wind and moon clear night,
Bi Masonry Red Xuan Thorn Historian.
Alone around the cloister to rest,
Listen to the strings and watch the flowers darkly.
《Kanghoku Nozomi Gin》
Crowing Magpie Noise Dim Tree,
Qingming cold food who cries.
The wind blows the wilderness paper money flying,
The ancient tomb fortress is green with spring grass.
Tang pear blossom reflects the poplar tree,
It's all about life and death.
Crying and not hearing,
Xiao Xiao Twilight Rain Man returned.
"Qingming is a Matter"
--Don Meng Haoran
The emperor is clear and clear, and the people's hearts are worried about themselves.
The sound of the car on the road, willow color East City Green.
Flowers and grasses bloom together, and warblers and butterflies play double play.
The empty hall sat and reminisced, drinking tea and chatting on behalf of drunkenness.
"Lu Men Are The Thing"
--Don Zhang Ji
The cultivator summons the love building ship,
Spring grass green ten thousand fields.
Try wu men peeping gun guo,
There are new smokes in several places in Qingming.
Cold Food
--Don Han Hong
Spring City is everywhere flying flowers,
Cold food East Wind Imperial Willow Slope.
Nichiren Han Palace Pass candles,
Light smoke spread into the Wuhou family.
"Cold Food on the Way"
--Don Songzhi asked
Immediately cold food, the way is late spring.
Poor Jiang Puwang, did not see the Luoqiao people.
The Lord of the North Pole is the Lord, and the South Ming is the vassal.
The old garden is broken, and the wicker is new day and night.
"Chang'an Qingming"
--Don Weizhuang
Fleas are wounded spring dreams on rainy days,
Can be more qianqian.
The inner official gave the Qingming fire at the beginning,
Idle money on the upper side.
Purple Mo chaotic red squealing,
Green poplar high reflection swing.
Tourists remember the chengping thing,
Dark joy scenery is like a past year.
"The Outing is the Thing"
--Song Cheng Hao
Yerba Buena Green Wild,
Spring enters the surrounding area of Yaoshan Mountain.
Red through willow lanes,
Guyin water sits on the moss.
Mo Cijiu is very persuasive,
Only the wind flowers are red.
The situation is clear and good weather,
You may wish to wander around and forget about it.
"Qingjiang Introduction: Qingming Sunrise Tour"
--Ming Wang Pan
Q Where is the west building smoking?
Sunny Path of Green Field.
The horse wears the willow hiss,
Man leans on the swing and laughs,
Scouting warblers always teach spring drunk.