When is the Winter Clothes Festival in 2016?

Winter Clothes Day tradition?

The Cold Clothes Festival is a traditional sacrificial festival in China. This day pays special attention to paying homage to ancestors. It originated in the Zhou Dynasty and is called sending cold clothes.

The Winter Clothes Festival, Qingming Festival, Shangsi Festival and Hungry Ghost Festival are also known as the four major "ghost festivals" in China.

This day also represents the arrival of severe winter, and the Winter Clothes Festival also represents the day to give out warm clothes.

Do you know when the Winter Clothes Festival is in 2016?

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When is the Winter Clothes Festival in 2016?

Gregorian Calendar: October 31, 2016 Lunar Calendar: Monday, October 1, 2016 Traditions of Winter Clothes Festival 2016 1. Cold Clothes: The so-called cold clothes are to put some cotton in five-color paper to symbolize the gifts given to the deceased.

The custom of using cotton-padded clothes and quilts is generally only spread in northern Shanxi. They will also make various styles of clothes, hats, shoes and quilts from five-color paper.

They even have to make a set of paper houses, with clear tiles and pillars, and complete doors and windows.

In addition to being smaller in size, these paper crafts look even more delicate and beautiful than Shinboin.

2. Making dumplings: Making dumplings is also one of the traditional customs of the Winter Clothes Festival, which is generally spread in Luoyang area.

Because in their ancient sayings, they once said: "October 1st, oil chirp", which means that on October 1st, people will cook fried food, chop meat, make dumplings, and prepare food for ancestors.

These things are greasy and greasy, and it is inevitable to get them all over your hands and face during the operation.

3. Sending cold clothes: It is a popular practice in central Shandong to burn cold clothes at wild intersections in the evening to offer sacrifices to the dead or lonely ghosts who have no descendants.

In southwestern Shandong, in addition to preparing cold clothes during the Cold Clothes Festival, people also make paper bundles based on the deceased's favorite operas or mythological stories for the afterlife.

The custom of the Winter Clothes Festival in 2016 is on the first day of the tenth month of the lunar calendar, which is called the "October Dynasty".

Since ancient times, our country has had the custom of paying homage to ancestors during harvest time to show filial piety and not forgetting our roots.

Ancient people also used millet to worship their ancestors on the first day of the tenth lunar month.

On the first day of the tenth month of the lunar calendar, ancestors are worshiped. There are family sacrifices and tomb sacrifices. This is true in the north and the south. Today, in many areas south of the Yangtze River, there is still the custom of worshiping new graves on the first day of the tenth month.