What festival is the first day of the tenth lunar month?

On the first day of October in the lunar calendar, it is the Cold Clothes Festival. On this day, it is to pay homage to ancestors and send them winter clothes, which is called sending cold clothes. Together with Tomb-Sweeping Day and Mid-Autumn Festival (the 15th day of the seventh lunar month), it is called the three "ghost festivals" in a year. You can do the following:

First, burn the clothes cold.

On the first day of October, the younger generation will send warm clothes to the deceased for the winter. In the old society, women had to sew cold clothes by hand and give them to distant relatives. If relatives have passed away, they will make cold clothes out of paper on this day and burn them in front of the grave, so it is called "Cold Clothes Festival".

There are also some stresses when sending cold clothes:

1. Fold the cold clothes by yourself.

2. Clothes, coins and other sacrificial articles to be burned to ancestors should be fully burned. Otherwise, it cannot be used.

If you can't go home to burn warm clothes, you can burn paper at the crossroads facing your hometown.

It is necessary to burn enough things for ancestors and some paper money for ghosts so as not to get ahead of others.

Second, go to the grave.

Besides Tomb-Sweeping Day's grave-sweeping, you can also visit the grave on the Cold Clothes Festival. It should be noted that when you go to the grave, you should prepare a tribute (bowl of dishes) and pay attention to the time (usually 9 am to afternoon 1 point). Don't go to the cemetery when it's dark. Be careful not to laugh at the grave, be solemn.

Third, repair graves.

Tomb-Sweeping Day and Hanyi Festival can break ground, but not at other times. Remove the weeds nearby and see if there are any loopholes.

Fourth, you can move the grave.

Generally, it is because of the problem of Feng Shui that the grave was moved to Feng Shui.

Nowadays, the custom of burning paper and cold clothes on the first day of October still exists in most rural areas, but it has faded in some places, especially in cities, where people just go to the grave to mourn or present a bunch of flowers in memory of their deceased relatives.