During the Qingming season, it rains,

Pedestrians on the road want to break their souls,

By asking where the restaurant is,

The shepherd boy refers to Xinghua Village.

This is a poem by Du Mu in the Tang Dynasty, called "Qingming".

This poem has been used to describe the mood of condolences to relatives during the Qingming Festival, and then a liquor brand was brought out, Shanxi Xinghua Village Liquor.

However, is this the case? Because of the reason for writing the book, Lao Ning checked a lot of information, including historical materials, because Lao Ning wanted to write a history book in the first place. Then the history books were not written, but I learned a lot of interesting things.

The answer is: no.

In fact, the poem also said that during the Qingming Festival, the Qingming Festival of the meeting is not a festival, but a season, one of the 24 solar terms in China. And Xinghua Village is not an apricot blossom village, but a mountain village with apricot blossoms at a glance. It's too normal for a little apricot blossom peach blossom pear blossom in the mountain village, but in the Qingming two days, the apricot blossom is blooming, and it will be on history.

At that time, there was no Xinghua Village wine. This belongs to the category of marketing, let's not talk about it.

The people of the Tang Dynasty, in our current words, are more hi, starting from Li Shimin, all the festival gatherings are hi, parties, drinking, bullfighting, wrestling, dancing and singing, except for the time when there is no jumping to be more hi, the Tang Dynasty has a sense of etiquette is not as rigorous as later, and the atmosphere is quite open.

Speaking of Qingming, we have to talk about two other real festivals that we modern people have forgotten: the Shangsi Festival and the Cold Food Festival.

It is impossible to study when the Shangsi Festival began, but in the Tang Dynasty, this is an authentic festival, equivalent to our current Spring Festival, how to say this festival, at that time it was the Universal Festival, everything was in charge, and the soul was sacrificed to seek a son to ward off evil spirits, which was very grand. Inserting wicker is the main feature of this festival, and wicker wards off evil spirits.

This festival is also a day for men and women to go on a blind date without a cover, I can't think of it, haha, men and women go to the river to wash under the guidance of the wizard, the official name is Purification Wedge, wash away the bad luck to welcome the new year, large open-air mixed bath, hey, the cool shower can no longer resist the inner turmoil.

At that time, as long as the eyes were aligned, no one cared about elopement, it was an important period to increase the population at that time.

We are more familiar with the Cold Food Festival, Jin Wengong was going to starve to death when he was in exile, Jie Zi Tui cut his own meat for him to eat, and then Jin Wen Gong was developed and looked for Jie Zi Tui to repay his kindness, but I didn't know what Jie Zi Tui thought, and he hid in the mountains with his mother, and he didn't see it. Then a smart man proposed to set fire to the two of them.

As a result, the fire accidentally burned big, and the two of them were roasted into jerky, and in order to commemorate him, he ordered that no fires should be lit in the country. But you may not know that the Winter Food Festival lasts for a month. You read that right, a month. You can't make a fire to cook for a month, you can only eat cold raw, and it's at the beginning of the third month of the lunar calendar, and the snow in the north hasn't melted yet.

The cold food festival is immediately followed by the Shangshi Festival, people just smoke from the skin, and then it is a month of cold rice, the mood is inevitably more ups and downs, it is easier to think of relatives and the deceased, so they began to visit relatives during the cold food festival, sacrifice and sweep the deceased, and gradually formed a folk activity of sweeping the tomb.

Festivals like the Cold Food Festival, which are not high-spirited and have to eat cold rice for a month, can be imagined how unpopular it is, at that time only northerners have passed, southerners, at that time the south is still a barbarian area, and people don't have this festival.

In fact, the people in the north couldn't stand it, it was too long, and Cao Cao wanted to try to change the festival, but it didn't work. At that time, people had to work hard to drink wine to ward off the cold, so the northerners were good at drinking wine.

Finally arrived in the Tang Dynasty, this dynasty of all the people came, and the national territory expanded from south to north I don't know how many times, and all the corresponding national festivals were also promoted. It's the same with the Winter Food Festival.

However, there was Li Shimin in the Tang Dynasty, how could this big crowd stand this, what is the meaning of life if you don't make a fire, don't sing, or dance for a month? So I ordered that the Cold Food Festival was changed to three days, but the custom of sweeping the tomb was retained.

And the third day of this cold food festival happens to be Qingming.

In an era and country where all the people are happy, although the depressing festival of the Cold Food Festival has changed from thirty days to three days, it is still sad, so on the last day of the Cold Food Festival, that is, the day of Qingming, the whole people ran out to go out to party and get high, and it gradually became a day to let go of themselves.

At that time, the two most popular things in the whole country were to kick parties and kick the party, and the other was to take holidays; under the leadership of Li Shimin, the people of the whole country turned all festivals, whether solemn or serious, into entertainment.

However, the three-day Cold Food Festival is just a tomb sweep at this time, and it can't be hi at all, how does this make Hi Sheng accept? Da Hi forced Li Shimin to order again, tomb sweeping or something is too depressing, to be high, the three days of the Cold Food Festival are equipped with four days of Qingming Qingqing Hi Song activities, so these seven days are occupied by kicking, people are still crying in front of the grave one second, and the next second they start to kick Hi Pi.

Seven days, seven days. At this time, people regret it, you must know that it turned out to be a whole month, thirty days. Holiday, the holiday is going to be kicked off.

So, the vigorous three-day cold food + the seven-day kick of the four days of Qingming is completely manic, to what extent?

At that time, some people objected, and wanted to rectify it, although the three views of the Tang Dynasty were quite avant-garde, but this feeling of jumping on the grave was still quite not good, but it was useless, in front of the emperor + important ministers + officials + all the people, what could resist the footsteps of the whole seven-day process?

The popularity of the seven-day traffic jam-free holiday is increasing year by year.

So the Shangsi Festival was sad, and in the Song Dynasty, this major festival that had been passed down for hundreds of thousands of years completely declined, and was completely overtaken by cold food + Qingming.

And what was there in the Song Dynasty? Zhu Xi, Zhu Xi, a chaste fighter who saved heavenly principles and destroyed people's desires. Damn, you shameless people who bathe in broad daylight with large fruit bodies? This must be extinct, holiday, do you know what a holiday is? Who let you really live?

So the Shangsi Festival was knocked down with a stick and was gone.

Has it disappeared? No, how could it be, it's just a private game for Zhu Xi and these people, such a hi thing must be done by themselves behind closed doors, and the common people must destroy people's desires.

Confucianism, the thousand-year-old religion of China, turned a corner here and became Confucianism. Zhu Xi's stinky goods that don't want Bilian have succeeded.

At the same time, Qingming finally succeeded in counterattacking, broke away from the Cold Food Festival, and became an independent festival. How can it be comfortable to eat cold rice and sweep the tomb. By the end of the Song Dynasty, Qingming was gorgeous, and it was a carnival festival of hi skin.

In the Ming Dynasty, the two festivals of Shangsi and Hanshi have basically disappeared from the people, but only the text is left, and our people only pass the Qingming Festival.

However, there must be a day to pay tribute to the deceased relatives and friends, so, under the official efforts + the habits of the common people, in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, Qingming became a four-in-one festival including willow planting + worship + stepping on the green hi skin,

Then everyone knows that the completely egoistic thinking group formed by these shameless Bichi literati led by Zhu Xi has collapsed the Ming Dynasty, knelt and licked the Qing Dynasty, and all the people in China are slaves, and the Hi Pi in the four-in-one project of the Qingming Festival is gone, and it has become today's three-in-one of willow insertion + memorial + outing, and there is only one day left and there is no holiday.

But this is all in the past, and now that Qingming is on holiday again, is it still far from continuing to be hi?

To sum up, have you noticed that we have been deceived by Lao Xian since we were children.

On the day of the Qingming Festival, Du Mu looked at the drifting rain, his heart was full of sorrow, and after worshipping his relatives, he wanted to find a restaurant to borrow wine to eliminate his sorrows.

He's worried about a hammer, he's going to be hi, he's going to be hi!

He's going to find a place to order, kick off, play with some flowers, and get high.