What is a winter coat?

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[Winter clothes] Clothes to keep out the cold in winter, such as cotton-padded clothes and trousers.

Live in cold clothes. -"Zi Tongzhi Ji Jian Biography"

The annual Cold Clothes Festival on the first day of October in the lunar calendar is also called "October Dynasty", "Ancestor Festival" and "Ghost Festival". People call it Ghost Festival, which is a traditional festival of sacrifice in China. It is said that it originated in the Zhou Dynasty. On this day, special attention is paid to the people who died first, which is called sending cold clothes. Hanyi Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Mid-Autumn Festival and Xiayuan Festival are also called the four "ghost festivals" in a year. At the same time, this day also marks the arrival of severe winter, so it is also a day to give send warm clothes to parents, lovers and others who care about it.

The first day of October in the lunar calendar is called "October Dynasty". Since ancient times, our country has had the custom of worshipping ancestors in the new harvest season to show filial piety and not forget our roots. Ancient people also offered sacrifices to their ancestors Xiaomi on the first day of the tenth lunar month. On the first day of the tenth lunar month, there are family sacrifices and grave sacrifices in both the north and the south. Today, in many areas south of the Yangtze River, it is also the custom to offer new graves on the first day of October.

Winter clothing festival

The first day of October in the lunar calendar is also the first day of winter. Since then, the weather has become colder and colder, and people are afraid that their ancestors' souls in the underworld lack clothes and clothes. Therefore, in addition to general offerings such as food, incense sticks and paper money, there is also an indispensable offering-shroud. When offering sacrifices, people burn ghost clothes to their ancestors, which is called "sending cold clothes".

Later, in some places, the custom of burning cold clothes changed. Instead of burning cold clothes, people burned a lot of ghost paper in a paper bag with the names of the recipients and senders and their corresponding names written on them. This is called "baggage". There is a name of cold clothes, but there is no reality of cold clothes. People think that the underworld, like the dead, can buy many things with money.

There is also the story of ancestor worship of Cai Lun papermaking and Cai Mo burning paper.

When China folk legend Cai Lun first invented paper, business was very good. Cai Lun's sister-in-law Huiniang asked her husband Cai Mo to learn papermaking from Cai Lun. They came back to open a paper mill, but the paper made by Cai Mo was of poor quality and could not be sold, so they were in a hurry. Later, Huiniang thought of a way out of trouble.

One night in the middle of the night, Huiniang pretended to die of a serious illness. Cai Mo was heartbroken in front of her coffin. When burning paper, he cried and said, "I studied papermaking with my brother, but I didn't pay attention." The quality of the paper made is so poor that you are very angry. " I'm going to burn this paper to ashes to dispel my hatred. "When he finished burning, bring paper to burn. After burning for a while, he only heard Huiniang shouting in the coffin, "Open the door, I'm back. "This shocked people. When people opened coffins, Hui Niang sang in a pretentious way: the money of the dead can travel all over the world, and the paper of the dead is for business. Who will let me go home if my husband doesn't burn paper?

Huiniang sang many times and said, "I was a ghost just now, but now I'm a human being. Don't be afraid. When I went to the underworld, the king of hell made me suffer. My husband gave me money, so many children helped me. Money talks. Three Cao Guan also asked me for money, and I gave it to him, so he opened the back door of the underworld and asked me to come back. " Cai Mo pretended to be confused: "Didn't I send you money?" Huiniang said, "The paper you burned is money from the underworld." Speaking of which, Cai Mo held several bundles of paper and burned them to her parents.

Hearing this, all the people present thought that burning paper had great benefits, and they all bought paper from Cai Mo. Huiniang generously gave it to the villagers, and the story was widely circulated. Villagers from far and near came to buy Cai's paper and burn it for their dead relatives. In less than two days, the backlog of paper was snapped up. Hui Niang's "return to Japan" is on the first day of the tenth lunar month. Therefore, later generations sacrificed their ancestors on the first day of October and burned paper in front of the grave to show their memory.

On the first day of October, there is a custom of offering sacrifices to the king of cattle in some places. According to legend, this custom originated from the State of Qin in the Spring and Autumn Period. One day, Qin Wengong ordered someone to cut down a catalpa tree, which suddenly turned into a cow. Qin Wengong was hunted. The cow jumped into the water and never came up again. People built a "Noot Temple" to worship this cow god. Nate is a tall, strong and majestic bull. Such cattle, in people's minds, have the function of driving away epidemics and evil spirits and protecting cattle.