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The Cold Food Festival is an important spring folk festival in Shanxi.

The specific date of the Cold Food Festival is one hundred and five days after the Winter Solstice. Most areas in Shanxi now celebrate the Cold Food Festival on the day before Qingming Festival. A few places such as Yushe County celebrate the Cold Food Festival two days before Qingming Festival. Yuanqu County also pays attention to the cold food festival on the day before Qingming Festival and the Xiaohan Food Festival on the two days before.

The origin of the Cold Food Festival should be the fire worship of humans in ancient times. The life of the ancients was inseparable from fire, but fire often caused great disasters to human beings. Therefore, the ancients believed that fire had gods and worshiped it. The fire worshiped by each family must be extinguished once a year. Then rekindling a new fire is called changing the fire. When the fire is changed, a grand ancestor worship activity will be held, and the symbol of Gu Shenji will be burned, which is called a human sacrifice. Following the customs, the later Fire Forbidden Festival was formed.

The Forbidden Fire Festival was later transformed into the Cold Food Festival to commemorate Jie Zitui, a famous official and righteous man of the Jin Dynasty during the Spring and Autumn Period. Legend has it that during Jin Wengong's exile, Jiezi once cut off his stock to satisfy his hunger. After Duke Wen of Jin returned to his country and became king, he forgot about the intercession when he divided the ministers among them. Jie Zitui did not want to boast about his achievements and win favor, so he lived in seclusion in Mianshan with his old mother. Later, Duke Wen of Jin personally went to Mianshan to respectfully invite Jie Zitui. Jie Zitui did not want to be an official and hid in the mountains. Wen Gong's men set fire to the mountain, with the original intention of forcing Jie Zitu to show his face. As a result, Jie Zitui was burned to death under a big tree while holding his mother in his arms. In order to commemorate the loyalty of this loyal minister, on the day of Jie Zitui's death, no fire was made to cook, but cold food was eaten, which is called the Cold Food Festival.

In the Han Dynasty, Shanxi people banned fire for a month to commemorate it. During the Three Kingdoms period, Emperor Wu of Wei Cao Cao ordered the abolition of this custom. There is a saying in the "Yin Punishment Order", "I heard that Taiyuan, Shangdang, and Yanmen were forbidden to eat cold food for a hundred and fifteen days after the winter solstice, and the cloud was Zitui." The chief official shall be punished for a hundred days, and the commander shall be deprived of one month's salary." After the Three Kingdoms returned to Jin, because it had the same pronunciation and the same word as "Jin" in Jin in the Spring and Autumn Period, people in Jin paid special attention to anecdotes, and the custom of prohibiting fire and cold food in commemoration of Jie Zitui was restored. However, the time was shortened to three days. At the same time, the saying that the Cold Food Festival commemorates Jie Zitui was extended to all parts of the country. The Cold Food Festival has become a national festival, and the ban on fire and cold food during the Cold Food Festival has become a unique custom of the Han people.

Today, the folk custom of banning fire and cold food in Shanxi mostly lasts for one day, and only a few places still use the custom of banning fire and cold food for three days. Folks in southern Shanxi are accustomed to eating cold noodles, cold noodles, cold cakes, etc. In the northern Shanxi region, it is customary to use Chaoqi (that is, steaming cakes or white noodles, cutting them into cubes the size of dice, drying them in the sun and frying them with soil until they turn yellow) as a cold food day food. In some mountainous areas, the whole family eats fried noodles on this day (that is, fried whole grains, mixed with various dried fruits and preserved fruits, and ground into noodles).

During the Cold Food Festival, it is customary to steam cold swallows to celebrate. They use flour to shape flying swallows, songbirds and animals, melons, fruits, flowers, etc., as big as a thumb, steam them, color them, and insert them into the jujube tree. Acupuncture them to decorate interiors or give them as gifts.