When is the first day of Cold Clothes Festival? What are the customs?

On the first day of the tenth lunar month, the ancients had customs such as sending clothes, offering sacrifices and cooking stoves to remind people that winter is coming.

Hanyi Festival, also known as "October Dynasty", "Ancestor Festival", "Ghost Festival" and "Autumn Festival", is a traditional sacrificial festival in China. On this day, people will sacrifice and burn sacrifices 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.