When is the first day of October?

According to the calendar website, the first day of October in the lunar calendar is Monday in October 2023 1 13. The solar term is the sixth day in beginning of winter, and there are still nine days before the light snow. Festival: Cold Clothes Festival.

Hanyi Festival, also known as "October Dynasty", "Ancestor Festival", "Ghost Festival", "Autumn Festival" and "October 1st", is a traditional sacrificial festival in China. People will offer sacrifices on this day to commemorate their deceased relatives, which is called sending cold clothes. 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 sending clothes, offering sacrifices and cooking stoves to remind people to pay attention to the arrival of cold winter. On this day, women will take out cotton-padded clothes and give them to their relatives who guard the border and serve the corvee in the distance. While sending cold clothes to relatives, it will gradually develop into sending cold clothes to ancestors and the dead.