Does the Cold Food Festival originate from the Spring and Autumn Period? What is the significance of the festival?

Does the Cold Food Festival originate from the Spring and Autumn Period? What is the significance of the festival?
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Does the Cold Food Festival originate from the Spring and Autumn Period?

——The Cold Food Festival originated from the story of Duke Wen of Jin and his loyal minister Jie Zitui during the Spring and Autumn Period. [1] According to historical records: During the Spring and Autumn Period, Prince Chong'er of Jin fled to another country for 19 years to avoid disaster. The minister Jie Zitui always followed him and never left him. He even "cut off his own flesh to feed the king." Chong'er worked hard to govern the country and became a famous monarch known as "Duke Wen of Jin".
[2] However, Jie Zitui did not seek fame or fortune, and he retired to Mianshan with his mother. In order to force him to come out to meet him, Duke Wen of Jin ordered the mountain to be set on fire. Jie Zitui refused to come out and was eventually burned to death.
[3] Duke Wen of Jin was grateful for his loyalty and buried him in Mianshan Mountain. He also built a shrine and temple for him. He also ordered that no fire be burned and only cold food be eaten on the day of Jie Zitui's death to express his grief. This is the origin of the "Cold Food Festival".
——Festival Origin: Sacrifice
——Festival activities: tomb sweeping, outing, swings, kicking balls, hooks, cockfighting
——Holiday diet: only eat cold food
——Meaning of the festival: To commemorate Jie Zitui
——Setting location: Jin State
——Institution establishment: Duke Wen of Jin
——Set time: Spring and Autumn

What is the meaning of the festival?

——According to historical legends: Cold Food Festival is to commemorate the loyal minister Jie Zitui.
(1) The Cold Food Festival was established by Duke Wen of Jin during the Spring and Autumn Period to commemorate Jie Zitui. It has a history of 2,640 years.
(2) It has continued through the dynasties to the present day without interruption. Although it was banned many times by Zhou Ju of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Cao Cao in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, Shi Le of the Later Zhao Dynasty, and Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty, it was revived again and again, and the custom of Cold Food Festival spread throughout the country and was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
(3) Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty responded to public opinion and issued an edict to include the Cold Food Festival's tomb-sweeping and tomb-opening ceremonies in the Kaiyuan Ritual, and designated it as a national statutory holiday. The rich and varied Cold Food Festival activities enriched social life, enhanced harmonious interpersonal relationships, and played an important role in easing social contradictions and promoting the continuous progress of society.
(4) In particular, the recognition and participation of the Cold Food Festival by the rulers of the fraternal ethnic groups during the Northern Wei, Liao, Jin, Yuan and Qing dynasties played a subtle and significant role in promoting national unity and consolidating the regime through the exchange and integration of the Cold Food Festival culture.
——Modern significance: Promote democratic construction and achieve peaceful reunification <br /> The Cold Food Festival contains Jie Zitui's political ambition of worrying about the country and the people, being loyal to the emperor and patriotic, and being clear-minded and honest, as well as his dedication to "not asking for rewards" and retiring after success. It is an ancient social ethical code and a link for social stability and national unity. It still has important practical significance today.
The Cold Food Festival culture, with loyalty and filial piety as its core connotation and the integrity derived from loyalty and filial piety, is the essence of the Jie Zi spirit, the core of the traditional morality of the Chinese nation, the foundation of the nation's ancestral culture, and the moral force that maintains national and family unity.
Today, it is an important way of activity and spiritual concept to gather people's hearts, consolidate the national spirit, achieve peaceful reunification of the motherland, and build a harmonious society.
The political clarity pursued by Jie Zitui has been the unanimous wish of the broad masses of people for thousands of years, and it has far-reaching practical significance for the construction of democratic politics in contemporary times.

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