Every year, the first day of the 10th lunar month is the traditional Cold Clothes Festival in China. What is the relationship between Cold Food Festival and Cold Clothes Festival?

Today is 20 17, 1 1, 18, which coincides with the first day of the tenth lunar month. It has always been a very important day among people. In ancient times, this day was used as the beginning of a year, also known as "October Festival". Later, this day became a cold clothing festival to worship ancestors and sweep graves and cherish the memory of the deceased; In Taoism, this day is one of the important "five waxes", that is, "the wax of the year of man". Then let the Chinese New Year encyclopedia tell you about the first day of October in the lunar calendar.

The annual Cold Clothes Festival on the first day of the tenth lunar month, also known as "October Dynasty", "Ancestor Festival" and "Ghost Festival", is also the Taoist "Lunar New Year's Day" and is a traditional festival of sacrifice in China. Legend has it that it originated in the Zhou Dynasty. Since ancient times, our country has had the custom of paying homage to 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.

One of the Five Waxes of Taoism: Wax of the Year of Man.

According to Seven Stories on the Cloud, the first day of the first month is Tianla, the fifth day of May is Dila, the seventh day of July is Moral Wei Ruxuan, the first day of October is Wei Ruxuan in Fujian, and the eighth day of December is Wei Ruxuan, a prince.

"The Jade Book of Emperor Tao" says: "The first day of the first month is called nature. On this day, the five emperors will meet in the East for nine days. On May 5th, in the famous land of La, the Five Emperors will visit Dantian in the south on this day. On July 7 th, the famous wax, the five emperors will go west for seven days. "

"On October 1st, people are old, and the five emperors are in the dark in the north. 1February 8th, the famous King of Yue Hou Yi and Five Emperors will visit the upper reaches of Du Xuan. On the day of the Five Emperors' Party, on a cloudy day in the north, Emperor Du Feng tested ghosts and found out the good and evil done by the ancestors of strangers and the descendants of the world, thus convicting him. This day is a tiring day for strangers, and gratitude is appropriate. You must sacrifice, redeem and suffer by magic, and you will be blessed one by one. You can't enjoy sacrificing every day. "

Folk traditional festival: Cold Clothes Festival

Legend has it that Ye Yan will give the ghosts of the underworld a holiday on the first day of the tenth lunar month, let them come to earth to collect the money given to them by their living families, and then return to the underworld before dawn. It can be seen that this day's sacrifice is very important.

Among the people, it is considered as the first day of winter. Since then, the weather has been getting colder and colder, and people are afraid that their ancestors' souls in the underworld are short of clothes and clothes. Therefore, in addition to food, incense sticks, paper money and other general offerings, there is also an indispensable offering-burial clothes. When offering sacrifices, people incinerate ghost clothes to their ancestors, which is called "sending cold clothes". Cold Food Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Mid-Autumn Festival are also called the three "ghost festivals" in a year.

According to textual research, as early as the Zhou Dynasty, the first day of the tenth lunar month was the wax festival, and a grand ritual activity was held on this day. 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 at the gate, at the same time comforting farmers and promulgating a new work and rest system.