What is the Cold Clothes Festival for?

Cold clothing festival is a day when people send warm clothes to the dead for the winter. 10/day 1 day, the Han people will not only send warm clothes to the dead for the winter, but also carry out some traditional activities symbolizing winter. On this day, women will take out cotton-padded clothes and let their children and husbands change seasons. If the weather is still warm, it is not suitable to wear cotton at this time, and children and husbands should be urged to try it on for good luck.

There is a proverb in Beijing called "October 1st, send cold clothes". It means that the weather is cold, and the whole family has put on new clothes, and they should also send some warm clothes to their dead relatives. So people always put up "warm pocket" and "gold and silver bag" in advance, write the address on the outside of the bag, so-and-so collect it, and then incinerate it; Shandong Hanyi Festival is a traditional festival in memory of ancestors. On this day, in addition to burning paper, clothes and hats were cut with colored paper and burned in front of the tomb. There is a saying that "on October 1st, we went to the grave to burn cold clothes", which means that our ancestors brought winter clothes. Residents of Huantai mostly worship their ancestors with "fried stuffing food". Go to the wild intersection at night to offer sacrifices to the dead who have no offspring, and add "warm clothes"; On the day of "Cold Clothes Festival", people in Jiangsu put dark clothes made of colored paper in a red paper bag and write down the identity and name of the deceased. On the evening of the first day of junior high school, a paper bag is presented in class as a souvenir, and then it is incinerated outside the door to show the memory of the deceased; Shaanxi people cut and paste clothes with all kinds of colored paper on the day of Cold Clothes Festival, and burn them in front of ancestral graves at dusk, which is called sending cold clothes. According to folklore, it is called the Lonely Soul Club. People send cold clothes, which should be burned to both ancestors and ghosts.