Cut the stock and serve you! After Jin Wengong ordered the release of Yamakaji, people began to eat wet cakes.

Tomb-Sweeping Day will be here soon. According to the custom, many people will buy moist cakes in addition to sweeping graves to worship their ancestors, but most people have actually forgotten the origin of eating moist cakes and don't even know that they "ate it wrong"! In fact, in addition to Tomb-Sweeping Day, there is a "Cold Food Festival" one or two days before/kloc-0 in Tomb-Sweeping Day, which is named because it is forbidden to burn cook the meat on fire, from which the custom of eating wet cakes is derived.

According to folklore, before Jin Wengong Zhong Er ascended the throne in the Spring and Autumn Period, he fled for 65,438+09 years. During this period, five wise men followed him to death. One of them, Jie Zhitui, cut off his thigh meat and cooked it into broth for Zhong Er when Zhong Er was hungry and cold. Afterwards, it was spread that he was regarded as a loyal minister by the people, and it was also the origin of the allusion of "cutting stocks to serve the king". Finally, Zhong Er returned to the State of Jin to retrieve it.

However, when people learned that meson had been pushed back to his hometown to live in seclusion, they thought that Zhong Er had abandoned him, so they wrote a folk song of "One Snake Tells Alone", which tells the story of five snakes traveling around the world with 1 dragon, and one of them cut off his own flesh when the dragon had nothing to eat. As a result, the other four snakes were given a cave to live in, and only the "meat-cutting snake" wandered outside.

Later, this ballad was learned by Zhong Er. As soon as he heard this, he knew that he was telling a story about himself and meson push, and immediately sent someone to find him. Finally, he found Jiezitui and his old mother who lived in seclusion on Mianshan Mountain. However, because Meson Tui refused to go down the mountain, Zhong Er adopted the courtier's suggestion and wanted to force Meson Tui to go down the mountain. Who knows that meson Tui's whereabouts are still unknown after a month's fire? Finally, Zhong Er sent someone to search the mountain to find meson Tui and burned him alive under a willow tree.

Zhong Er regretted seeing the body of meson push. He took the burnt willow back and made a clogs. He looks at it every day and sighs that "the first step is deplorable", which is said to be the allusion of the word "the first step". In addition, after seeing the burned mesons pushing the bodies, Zhong Er suddenly began to dislike cooked meat, and even ordered that there should be no kindling in the palace. As a result, his health became worse and worse for a long time, so civil and military officials demanded that Zhong Er fire again.

Finally, Zhong Er ordered the whole country not to fire for three days on the anniversary of Jiexiu's death to commemorate Jiexiu. However, food is the most important thing for people, and it is inevitable that human beings will be full. Therefore, people have developed many different cooking methods and delicacies. However, because there is no fire, I can only enjoy cold food these days. For a long time, people have called it "Cold Food Festival", and moist cakes have gradually become a must-eat food for the Cold Food Festival because they do not need fire in the cooking process.

The exact date of the Cold Food Festival is about "the day from winter to the future 105". However, because this day is often repeated with Tomb-Sweeping Day, and ancestor worship is a very important part of China culture, people made an unwritten rule in the past to directly set the Cold Food Festival on the day before Tomb-Sweeping Day. However, for a long time, most people forgot about the Cold Food Festival, and finally only remembered eating moist cakes in Tomb-Sweeping Day.