Cold Food Day

Now there's an unappetising sounding festival if ever I heard one...

Whilst surfing around for information on Ching Ming, I discovered that today is also Cold Food Day. Cold Food Day is traditionally celebrated 105 days after the last Winter Solstice, it used to be Cold Food Month, then it was shortened to Cold Food Three Days (not it's technical name!) and then to just one day (which coincided with Ching Ming) - now it is no longer really celebrated.

There are a couple of different thoughts on the origin of this festival. My favourite is that back in the Chow dynasty fire was worshipped as a God so there were strict rules on how often it could be used and not worn out...hence the month long break in use of fire, resulting in Cold Food.

Anyway, today is Ching Ming (clear and bright - not today it isn't!)so graves will be swept, offerings will be made and the dead will be remembered.

On a personal note...am over the 300 mark on visitors to my site...thanks to people in Romania, Holland and Qatar!