The Cold Food Festival, that is, the modern era, is less important. In ancient times, at least, it was still valued in the Tang and Song dynasties. From the Han Dynasty to the Song Dynasty, the Cold Food Festival had to be magnified. Let's just say that the Tang Dynasty was good, first it was four days, and in the twenty-fourth year of the Kaiyuan Dynasty, it was stipulated that there would be a four-day holiday. After that, in the twelfth year of the Great Calendar, it was stipulated that it would be released for five days. After more than ten years, the sixth year of Zhenyuan, it was put into seven days. Since then, until the Song Dynasty, it has been put for seven days.

This holiday is put together with the Qingming Festival. The Cold Food Festival is usually associated with Qingming, and it is difficult to say who comes first and who comes last. Because they are all determined according to the solar terms and a certain day.

The Winter Food Festival is one hundred and five days after the winter solstice. Qingming Festival is fifteen days after the vernal equinox. If the winter solstice comes late and spring comes early, it may become the Qingming Festival first, and then the Cold Food Festival.

'It's so troublesome...., it's nice to be connected. After being busy for a while yesterday, Li Chen finally won't be here, cold food and Qingming, this fire ban day, starving to death of a family.

Yes, it's much easier now. Merge these two days, and no one will forget them. On the way to the suburbs, Xiaohong said that the Cold Food Festival has evolved, and in the twelfth year of the Great Calendar, the imperial court issued an order, and the Cold Food Festival merged with the Qingming Festival.

Originally, the Tang Dynasty stipulated that the day after the Cold Food Festival was Qingming. The rule of the Han Dynasty was that three days after the cold food was Qingming, and fire had to be banned for these days... It's really troublesome not to be able to make a fire, and I don't know how the Han Dynasty got through these days.

In the Song Dynasty, it became two days after the cold food, and the Southern Song Dynasty Chen Yuanliang introduced the Northern Song Dynasty Lu Yuanming, and the miscellaneous notes of the year said that the first two days of the Qingming Festival were cold food, three days before and after, and seven days off.

'Put it for a few days, it was released by the government, and it was released by those big officials. For the people, there is actually no hard and fast rule, which day to go to the grave, so there is a saying about the January Festival of cold food. This means that throughout the month, people go to the grave, and it is not limited to the day of cold food or Qingming.

(I don't know what to say, does a cold food festival need to be so important?) Listening to Xiaohong say so much about the Cold Food Festival, Li Chen only felt that there was no need to pay so much attention to a Cold Food Festival.

Even in modern society, the Qingming Festival still exists, even in modern society, filial piety is a very important part, not to mention the ancient society of governing the world with filial piety, symbolizing the meaning of chasing far away in the end, to be filial, to be filial to your parents, and then to obey the emperor like filial piety to your parents, or even more filial than that.

If the emperor wants you to die, you have to die, and if you don't give you a reward, you can't ask for it. Thunder, rain and dew are all Jun's grace, even the emperor Lao Tzu killed your whole family, you have to thank the emperor for killing well, killing well, he deserved it.

Therefore, Qingming Festival is very important. So what's so important about the Cold Food Festival? In the Tang Dynasty, the importance of the Cold Food Festival was far greater than that of the Qingming Festival. Even Qingming is just an accessory to the Cold Food Festival. What is the significance of a cold food energy saving that deserves such attention?

No wonder after the Song Dynasty, to the Yuan Dynasty, the Cold Food Festival declined, on the one hand, where did the group of barbarians abide by it, what Cold Food Festival, can't they make a fire to make them eat raw meat. On the other hand, this cold food festival is really meaningless.

(yes, that doesn't seem right.) In this more comfortable and pleasant weather than the Shangsi Festival, Li Chen dreams and imagines extraordinary. Compared with March 3, the climate of the Cold Food Festival is better, and spring has really come to the world, no wonder Li Chen dreamed.

Li Chen suddenly thought, just now, Qingming has a river meaning to the imperial society, and complains, isn't the meaning of the Cold Food Festival the same?

Wouldn't it be perfect for an emperor. Loyal to the emperor (cutting meat), hard-working and resentful (no reward and no complaints, quietly retreating. ), the king wants the minister to die, and the minister goes to die with a smile, (after death, he was found to have left a desperate poem, and there were no complaints.) ）。

No wonder, Li Chen patted his head and suddenly realized, no wonder from the Han Dynasty to the Song Dynasty, what kind of cold food festival is being promoted, dare to love is this factor.

'What are you doing with your head on the back?' Li Chen patted his head, which startled Xiaohong, who was sitting not far from him, thinking that he had committed some stupid disease, grabbed his hand and gently stroked his head, "Does it hurt, do you have to pat your head well." In fact, today Xiaohong did not take Yang Erniang's donkey cart, but squeezed their car with a few children, Li Chen was very happy, and now he was treated so gently, Li Chen's heart immediately bubbled.

It's here, it's here. It seems like this is it. At this time, Ah Xiang shouted, shouting while patting the head of the little tiger who was driving the car.

Since it is a cold food today, it has also been merged into the Qingming Festival, so it is necessary to go to the grave. It's just that Li Chen has any grave to go to in Xuzhou, first of all, he is not a person of this era at all, and then come, even if he wants to go to the grave of the ancestor of this body, I am afraid that he will have to go to the grave of Li Shimin and Tang Xuanzong in Chang'an. Today, they are actually here to go to the grave of Ah Xiangde's parents.

What graves do orphans need to go to? Of course, who doesn't have parents, Sun Wukong still needs a stone. It is said that it is an orphan, but everyone is born differently, and some are discarded as soon as they are born, which is rare. Thai half of the family had an accident after he was born.

Ah Xiang is better, her parents are natives of Pengcheng. After the family had an accident, her parents died, and those powerful relatives were busy dividing up her family's property, no one wanted to pay attention to her, and rushed over like a ball, she was angry, and simply ran away from home and became an orphan, and then she would meet Xiaohu and them.

Except for Ah Xiang, there is no cemetery for several other people. Either they came from other places, or their parents had already thrown them into mass graves, and they didn't even know where the corpses were.

Is this meowing a grave sweeper?' When he arrived near the cemetery, he began to busily move sacrifices from the car and move to the grave of Ah Xiang's parents on foot, Li Chen knew for the first time that Ah Xiang's surname was Wang and his name was Wang Hanxiang.

Well, it's not about Ah Xiang's name, or where she's from. The point is that on the way to carry the sacrifices, they met a lot of people, a lot of people who came to sweep the tombs, and this is not the point. Along the way, they thought they had met a lot of people, and if they had money, they had to drive donkey carts, otherwise ox carts would be good. If you don't have any money, you have to use it early, so the old and young people of the family are holding it on their shoulders, carrying a food box with sacrifices, and a wine urn on their shoulders.

The point is, these people seem to be here to sweep the tomb, many are to sweep the tomb, and more people seem to be here to have fun. What to play?

A tree on the left, not hanging, but swinging, this old tree is so strong that the branches are hung with red, red, green and green ropes, and a few young girls are giggling and playing under the tree.

The girl on the swing, swinging higher and higher, laughing louder and louder, a few girls cheering her up, the swing got that, and kept asking her partner to push her up. Li Chen was worried about them, whether the trunk would break, or whether the red rope would be unreliable.

But he didn't worry about them in a hurry, so he suffered, and his ear was grabbed by Xiaohong, so painful that he almost cried out, and immediately retracted and continued to walk further.

Further on, on the slightly flat grass on the right, several men were kicking Keju. Kicking, boobs, headbutting, having a good time. There were more spectators watching from time to time, and from time to time the golfers either applauded or sighed.

The corners of Li Chen's mouth twitched for a while in this situation, what is this, isn't this here to sweep the tomb? Why is it like an outing now, and this is not a cemetery, but an amusement park.

What is this doing? Li Chen said angrily, "This is to express remembrance to the ancestors." If you don't have a sad look, why are you still playing. Is this going to the grave or going to the green. ''That's normal.'' Everybody's like that. Xiaohong said disapprerovingly, "If this is too much, look at the people fighting cocks in front of you." That's what it is. ’

Li Chen turned his head and saw a group of people surrounding there, looking very excited. Because it was far away and noisy, I couldn't hear what they were talking about, but I knew that there were a lot of people and I was very excited.

'How do you know it's a cockfight?' Li Chen asked Xiaohong strangely, so far away, do you know this? The circle is so small, I can't think of anything to make if it weren't for cockfighting. When I got closer, it was a fighting, two majestic fighting cocks, in a circle, glaring at each other for a while, and then pounced on and bited.

This made Li Chen sigh for a while, what was wrong with the Tang Dynasty? If you don't come, forget it, and when you come, you still look like you're traveling. Swings, jujus, and even cockfights have come out, and there are people betting next to them. Regarding this question, Li Chen habitually began to think, or rather, Li Chen was distracted again.

However, after all, he was not alone, and soon Xiaohu, who was used to him being distracted at every turn, pulled his sleeves, and woke up, they had reached the goal of this time, and Ah Xiang's parents had their graves.

What finally comforted Li Chen was that Ah Xiang and the other children were not frolicking like usual, and Xiaohong was also very cautious and began to help.

What are you busy with? That is, cut some grass off the grave, and it won't look so messy. Then symbolically add some soil to the grave. The puppy brought the wine urn, poured out some wine, and sprinkled it on the grave. Ah Xiang and Datou were busy placing the sacrifices they had brought in front of the tombstone.

And they broke the willows, and took the willows from near the grave, and broke a few branches and put them in the grave. The second dog also pulled a lot, Xiaohong began to wear wicker circles for the children, and Li Chen also asked for one.

After these are done, it is time to start putting on incense, Li Chen lights a handful of incense. Distributed to a few children, Ah Xiang took the lead and knelt half-in, after all, this is her parents, Li Chen and Xiaohong are tied with him, and behind them are six children.

After worshipping, the incense is inserted in a cup of rice, and then kowtows to the tombstone. This ceremony was almost completed, and in the last few hours, he began to burn paper money, and Li Chen went to carry water, which was afraid of accidentally burning something. The paper money is burned and the ceremony ends.

The whole process was quite solemn, even if it wasn't for their parents, the six elementary schools looked serious, but the serious atmosphere was completely ruined by the nearby blowing, playing, and singing.