What day is it to send cold clothes to the dead people

Date of Cold Clothes Day 2016: 2016, Monday, October 31, 2016, the first day of the tenth month of the lunar calendar.

The first day of the tenth month of the lunar calendar. Folklore weather turns cold, the earth to add clothes, relatives in the netherworld also need to add clothes, so this day need to go to the grave to pay homage to ancestors. With the Qingming Festival and the most important day of folk worship.

Cold Clothes Festival: the first day of October on the lunar calendar, known as the "October Morning", also known as "Ancestor Sacrifice Festival", for the delivery of cold clothes Festival. Also known as the Underworld Festival, this day, special attention to pay tribute to the first dead people, so-called send cold clothes. With the spring of the Qingming Festival, the fall of the Mid-Yuan Festival, and known as the three major "ghost festival" in the year. In order to prevent the ancestors from freezing in the netherworld, on this day, people should burn five-colored paper to send cold clothes for them, and also send warmth to the lonely ghosts. October 1, burning cold clothes, sent the present nostalgia for the deceased, carrying the living to the deceased's pity. At the same time, this day also marks the arrival of winter, so it is also parents and loved ones and other people concerned about the day to send warm clothes.