He is a moral model of loyalty through the ages, but also a person with lofty ideals who is indifferent to Minglu, Qingming Festival is closely related to him, in recognition of his loyalty and Qingming, people have commemorated him, so do you know the origin of the Qingming Festival?
In the Spring and Autumn Period, the Li Ji Rebellion occurred in the Jin Kingdom, the sons of the Jin Kingdom were persecuted, the crown prince Shen Sheng was killed, Shen Sheng's younger brother Chong'er took refuge and fled, and was chased and killed along the way, and was displaced, leaving only a few courtiers including Jie Zitui to follow. On the way to escape, there was an entourage who stole all their food and fled, Chong'er was so hungry that he was about to faint from hunger, in order to keep Chong'er alive, Jie Zitui cut a piece of meat on his leg and boiled it into soup for Chong'er to drink, saving Chong'er. When Chong'er finished drinking, he was greatly moved when he learned that it was the meat on Jie Zitui's legs, and claimed that he would repay Jie Zitui one day.
Nineteen years later, Chong'er returned to China and became the monarch of the Jin Kingdom, which is the famous Duke Wen of Jin. Someone shouted for it, and Jin Wengong suddenly woke up and was very ashamed. And Jie Zitui felt that being faithful to the Savior was the right thing to do, and he was not greedy for fame and fortune, so he went to Mianshan in seclusion with his mother behind his back.
Jin Wengong sent people up the mountain to search but did not find it, so someone proposed to Jin Wengong to set fire to the mountain, when the fire burned, Jie Zitui would definitely flee down the mountain along the gap left. After the fire was extinguished, Jin Wengong went up the mountain to take a look, and saw that Jie Zitui mother and son had been burned to death in front of a withered willow, and there was a blood poem for Jin Wengong hidden in the tree hole in the chest of Jie Zitui.
After reading the blood poem, Jin Wengong was sad in his heart, so he ordered to build a temple for Jie Zitui, set this day as the cold food festival, and set a rule that the people taboo fireworks on this day every year, and can only eat cold food. In the second year, on the second day of the Cold Food Festival, Duke Wen of Jin led his ministers to pay tribute to Jie Zitui, walked to the grave, and saw the dead willow that was burned to death resurrected, with green branches. Duke Wen of Jin named the resurrected old willow tree Qingming Willow, and named this day Qingming Festival.