Pictures of handwritten newspapers in Tomb-Sweeping Day in 2020 1.
Picture 2 of Tomb-Sweeping Day Manuscript in 2020
Picture 3 of Tomb-Sweeping Day Handwritten Newspaper in 2020
The Legend of Tomb-Sweeping Day
There is a legend about cold food:
According to legend, in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Jin Xiangong's concubine killed the prince in order to let her son inherit the throne, and Shen Sheng was forced to commit suicide. Shen Sheng's younger brother, Zhong Er, went into exile to escape the scourge. During his exile, Zhong Er suffered humiliation. Most of the courtiers who went out with him went out one after another. Only a few loyal people have been following him. One of them is called meson push. On one occasion, Zhong Er fainted from hunger. In order to save Zhong Er, Jiezitui cut a piece of meat from his thigh, cooked it with fire and gave it to Zhong Er. Nineteen years later, Zhong Er returned to China and became a monarch. This is Jin Wengong, one of the five famous tyrants in the Spring and Autumn Period.
After Jin Wengong came to power, in addition to meson push, he offered many rewards to courtiers who shared his joys and sorrows. Someone defended meson in front of Jin Wengong. Jin Wengong suddenly remembered the past and felt guilty. He immediately sent someone to ask meson to take the imperial court to be rewarded as an official. However, after several trips, the meson could not be pushed. Jin Wengong had to please. However, when Jin Wengong came to the meson pusher's house, he saw that the door was closed. Jiezitui didn't want to see him, and had already been hiding behind his mother in Mianshan (now southeast of Jiexiu City, Shanxi Province). Jin Wengong asked his body guard to search Mianshan, but he couldn't find it. So, someone had an idea, saying, it is better to let Yamakaji go, set fire on three sides, leave one side, burn it and the meson will come out. Jin Wengong ordered the promotion of Yamakaji. Unexpectedly, the fire burned for three days and nights. After the fire was put out, the meson was not pushed out after all. Looking up the mountain, the mother and son were holding a charred willow tree and were dead. Jin Wengong looked at meson push's body and cried for a while, then buried it, and found that meson push's back was blocked by a willow hole, and there seemed to be something in the hole. Take out a look, turned out to be a skirt, with a blood poem:
I hope your master is always clear.
It is better to be a ghost than to accompany you as an exhorter.
If your master has me in his heart, remember that I often reflect.
I have a clear conscience in Jiuquan, diligent and honest.
Jin Wengong hid the bloody book in his sleeve. Then meson tui and his mother were buried under the charred willow tree. To commemorate Jiexiu, Jin Wengong ordered Mianshan to be changed to Jiexiu Mountain, and an ancestral temple was built on the mountain, and the day when Yamakaji was released was designated as the Cold Food Festival, telling the whole country that it is forbidden to set off fireworks and firecrackers on this day every year and only eat cold food.
When he left, he cut a charred willow and made a pair of clogs in the palace. He looked at it every day and sighed, "What a pity." The "first step" is the name of ancient people's subordinates respecting each other between superiors or peers, which is said to come from it.
The following year, Jin Wengong led his ministers to go hiking in plain clothes to show their respect and condolences. Walking to the grave, I saw the dead old willow tree resurrected, with thousands of green branches dancing in the wind. Jin Wengong looked at the resurrected old willow tree and seemed to see the meson push. He walked up to him respectfully, lovingly squeezed a branch, braided it into a circle and put it on his head. After the sacrifice, Jin Wengong named the revived old willow "Qingming Willow" and named it Tomb-Sweeping Day.
Later, Jin Wengong often took a bloody book with him as a souvenir, urging himself to take power. He is diligent and honest, and strives to govern the country well.
Tomb-Sweeping Day's composition
Tomb-Sweeping Day was originally an ordinary solar term, but as early as the Zhou Dynasty, Tomb-Sweeping Day evolved into a festival, which has been passed down to this day.
My father's hometown is Yangzhou, so every year in Tomb-Sweeping Day, my father wakes me up early in the morning and goes to Yangzhou to worship my grandfather (my grandfather died when my father was my age). On this day, grandma got up early, because she had to prepare all kinds of favorite dishes before grandpa died, of course, grandpa's favorite paper mahjong and the necessary gold ingot made of yellow paper. The graves in the country are usually in remote places at the end of the field, and we take these sacrifices to the graves. Walking in the fields in spring, I can see patches of green wheat seedlings, patches of golden rape flowers, and unknown small wild flowers in full bloom ... except for the occasional cock crowing and dog crowing in the distance, I can only hear birds chirping. Really quiet and beautiful!
When we arrived at the grave, we put a fish, a dish, a plate of tofu and a bowl of meat on a small piece of concrete floor in front of grandpa's grave, poured a glass of wine in front of the grave, and then burned all the "Mahjong" and "Yuanbao" in the open space next to it. Grandma made us kowtow when burning incense, hoping grandpa would bless us with luck, happiness, happiness and intelligence. Finally, we have to plant a Qingming willow on the top, which has a history: During the Spring and Autumn Period, Jin Wengong's minister Jietui lived in seclusion in Jieshan, which made Jin Wengong regret it. Knowing that Jiexiu was a dutiful son, he ordered Yamakaji to be released (he thought that only by burning the mountain could Jiexiu and his mother come down), but he burned Jiexiu and the creatures on the mountain. But the next year, the old willow on the mountain came back to life, so Jin Wengong called it "Qingming Willow". At this moment, people have given the Qingming willow the function of ward off evil spirits.
After the sweeping ceremony, I usually fly kites with friends I haven't seen in the countryside for many days. My father said it was also a custom in Tomb-Sweeping Day. In the past, when they were young, they made their own kites with bamboo sticks and newspapers, but now they buy them in the street. According to the old people, it has the function of ward off evil spirits or evil spirits.
This is a custom in my hometown of Tomb-Sweeping Day. What about yours?