When will the cold clothes be delivered?

Sending cold clothes is the first day of the 10th lunar month every year, which is a traditional festival of sacrifice in China-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 that winter is coming. 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.

The Origin of Hanyi Festival

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 social altar, and offered sacrifices to five generations of ancestors inside the door, at the same time comforting the peasants and promulgating a new work and rest system. The Cold Clothes Festival marks the arrival of severe winter, and it is also a day to send warm clothes to parents, lovers and other people 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. People should buy clothes to keep out the cold, so the first day of October is also commonly known as clothing festival.