qingming festival in ancient chinese poems
2. silk - washing stream
spring sheds a mild and wild light on cold food day;
jade burner spreads the dying incense like a spray.
walking, i find my hairpin under pillow stray.
the swallows not yet come, a game of grass we play;
willow down wafts while mume blossoms fade away.
in drizzling rain at dusk the garden swing won't sway.
silk—washing stream is a poem by song dynasty poet li qingzhao (1084-1155), one of the leading female poets of the time.
the cold food festival or hanshi festival, as mentioned in the poem, is a traditional chinese holiday celebrated one day before the qingming festival. on that day, people only eat cold food. it was not until the qing dynasty (1644-1911) that the practice of hanshi was replaced by qingming.
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