What are the customs of the Cold Clothes Festival?

Hanyi Festival is a traditional sacrificial festival of Han nationality and a folk custom in China. It originated in the Tang Dynasty and prevailed in the early years of the Tang Dynasty.

Hanyi Festival is also called Ghost Festival, so Hanyi Festival is regarded as Ghost Festival. At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, the Cold Clothes Festival became popular and gradually rose.

The custom of Cold Clothes Festival

First, pay homage to the dead.

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.

Second, send warm 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.