When is the Cold Clothes Festival?

The Cold Clothes Festival in 2023 is 165438+ 10/3, which falls on the first day of the tenth lunar month.

Hanyi Festival, also known as October Dynasty, ancestor worship festival, Ghost Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and October 1st, is a traditional festival of sacrifice in China. People will provide warm clothes on this day to commemorate their deceased relatives. The first day of October in the lunar calendar is the first day after the cold winter. In ancient times, there were customs such as giving clothes, offering sacrifices and cooking stoves to remind people of the arrival of cold winter.

On this day, women will take out cotton-padded clothes and give them to their relatives who are guarding the border in the distance and serving the corvee. While sending cold clothes to relatives, it will gradually develop into sending cold clothes to ancestors and the dead.

According to legend, the Cold Clothes Festival originated in the Zhou Dynasty, and the time is the first day of the tenth lunar month every year.

The Book of Rites and the Moon Order describes the situation in La Worship in the Zhou Dynasty: the son of heaven offered sacrifices to the gods of the sun, the moon and the stars on the altar of the country, and offered sacrifices to five generations of ancestors inside the door to comfort the peasants, and promulgated a new system of work and rest. Hanyi Festival marks the arrival of severe winter, and it is a day to give send warm to parents, lovers and others who care about it. The Book of Songs in July once mentioned that "fire flows in July, and clothes are given in September", which means that it will gradually get cold from September. It's time for people to buy clothes to keep out the cold, so the first day of October is also commonly known as the clothing festival.