What is Cold Clothes Festival?

Every year, the first day of the tenth lunar month is the Cold Clothes Festival. Hanyi Festival, also known as "October Dynasty", "Ancestor Festival", "Ghost Festival" and "Autumn Festival", is a traditional sacrificial festival in China, which is said to have originated from the Zhou Dynasty.

October 1st of the lunar calendar is the first day after entering the cold winter, marking the arrival of the cold winter. On this day, people will offer sacrifices and burn them to commemorate their deceased relatives. This is called sending cold clothes. In China, Hanyi Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day Festival and Zhongyuan Festival (the seventh day of the seventh lunar month) are called the three "ghost festivals" in China.

The legend of "Cold Clothes Festival" originated in the Zhou Dynasty. On this festival, people pay special attention to offering sacrifices to the dead, which is called "sending cold clothes". "The Book of Rites and the Moon Order" recorded La Worship in the Zhou Dynasty: the emperor sacrificed his prey to pay homage to the sun, moon, star, gods and ancestors of the five dynasties in the social arena, and pursued a new way of life. The Cold Clothes Festival is the beginning of winter, and it is also the time to send warm clothes to relatives, relatives and relatives.

In central Shandong, it is popular to burn cold clothes at the intersection in the wild at night as a sacrifice to the dead or ghosts without offspring. Every year on 65438+ 10 1, Shandong people also pay homage to their deceased relatives. They will provide the deceased with autumn harvest items to report the harvest of one year. In addition, they will cut clothes out of colored paper for ancestors to burn, and burn warm clothes on graves.

What are the customs and activities of the Cold Clothes Festival?

Cold clothing festival is a festival to commemorate and pay homage to ancestors. Since ancient times, there have been customs such as sending clothes, offering sacrifices and cooking stoves. In ancient times, people burned clothes during sacrifices, which meant that they hoped that their dead relatives would not freeze to death in winter.

Now, the custom of burning cold clothes has changed. In some places, people will paste "warm pocket", "silver bag" and "gold bag" with colored paper in advance, write the address and name on the outside of the bag, and then burn it to show their thoughts and blessings to their ancestors.

In some places, people cut colored paper into clothes and hats and burn them in front of graves, which means bringing winter clothes to their deceased families to show their concern for their ancestors in Myanmar.