Why do you want to send "cold clothes" on October 1 of the lunar calendar? Who handed it down?

The first day of that tenth lunar month is a very important day, and every family should send "warm clothe" to their dead relatives. Why? Then this article will briefly share the relevant knowledge in this respect:

Every year, the first day of the tenth lunar month is a festival for people in northern China to sweep their ancestors and send cold clothes. It is said that it originated in the Zhou Dynasty, but in fact it was not formed before the Song Dynasty. The Cold Clothes Festival is very popular in northern China, and many northerners will sacrifice their deceased relatives on this day, which is called sending cold clothes. Northerners in China refer to the Cold Clothes Festival on the first day of October, Tomb-Sweeping Day in spring and Mid-Autumn Festival on July 15th as the three "ghost festivals" in China.

Because the Cold Clothes Festival falls on the first day of winter, in order to protect our ancestors from the cold in the underworld, people not only burn paper money for the dead, but also burn clothes made of five-color paper and send warm clothes to their ancestors, which is called "sending cold clothes". Later, some places no longer burn cold clothes, but "burn bags", which means sealing many ghost papers in a paper bag and writing the names of the recipients and senders and their corresponding names.

As early as the Zhou Dynasty, important sacrificial activities were held on the first day of October. 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 at the social altar, and offered sacrifices to five generations of ancestors at the gate, at the same time comforting farmers and promulgating a new work and rest system. In the Book of Songs in July, it was mentioned that "July is full of fire, and clothes are given in September", which means that the weather is getting colder and colder since September, and people should buy clothes to keep out the cold, so the first day of October is also commonly known as the clothes-giving festival.

The detailed record of the Cold Clothes Festival in Ming Dynasty: "On October 1st, the paper was cut into five colors for men's and women's clothes. Long feet straight, cold clothes sealed. It's like sending a book Every family has a night drink, calling the door and burning the door, saying that they will send cold clothes. The new funeral is a blank sheet of paper, saying that the new ghost dare not dress up. The person who sent the white clothes cried, female voice 19, male voice 11. "