What does it mean that Hanyi Festival does not burn Hanyi paper for three years?
The Cold Clothes Festival is on the first day of the tenth month of the lunar calendar every year. It is also known as the "October Morning", "Ancestor Worship Festival" and "Mingyin Festival". People call it the Ghost Head Day. It is a traditional sacrificial festival in my country. Want to know more about the auspicious and inauspicious days in the tenth month of the lunar calendar in 2018? Pay attention to Shuimoxiansheng.com’s special topic on October of the lunar calendar!What does it mean to not burn winter clothing paper for three years?Not burning winter paper for three years refers to the traditional Chinese custom. The first time to burn winter paper after the death of a deceased person must be in an odd year, and the soil must be restored and a tombstone must be erected first. However, the customs vary from region to region. In some regions, there is only the custom of not allowing landfilling during the Qingming Festival in the first three years, and there is no custom of not burning paper during the Cold Clothes Festival.What is the legend of Cold Clothes Festival?1. Meng Jiangnu Delivers Winter Clothes A Thousand Miles Away<br /> According to legend, during the Qin Dynasty, the Meng and Jiang families in Songjiang Prefecture in Jiangnan planted gourds and gave birth to a daughter, named Meng Jiangnu, who married Fan Qiliang. Later, Qi Liang was captured and forced to build the Great Wall in the northern border. Meng Jiangnu traveled thousands of miles to find her husband and give him winter clothes. When she arrived at the foot of the Great Wall, she found that her husband had died and was buried inside the wall. Meng Jiangnu was filled with grief and indignation. She cried towards the Great Wall day and night. Finally, she moved heaven and earth so much that her tears collapsed the Great Wall, revealing her husband's body. For thousands of years, this story of loyal love has been widely circulated.After Meng Jiangnu cried down the 800-li Great Wall, she confronted Qin Shihuang face to face, avenged her husband and vented her anger. Finally, she jumped into the sea with her husband's remains in her arms and died with him. At the moment of jumping into the sea, the waves surged and slowly arched up two reefs. It is said that Jiangnu's tomb on the sea can never be submerged no matter how high the tide is. Because of the story of Meng Jiangnu who traveled thousands of miles to find her husband and send him winter clothes, the first day of the tenth month of the lunar calendar is called "Cold Clothes Festival" both inside and outside the Great Wall. "Burning winter clothes on the first day of October" has long become a custom in the north to pay tribute to deceased relatives. 2. Legend of "Red Bean Rice" in Jiangsu Province <br /> Later generations celebrated October 1 as a mourning day and used red bean rice as a sacrifice. There is still a legend in Dafeng, Jiangsu Province. The legend goes like this: Once upon a time there was a cowherd who was hacked to death by the landlord because he resisted the landlord. His blood dyed the rice scattered on the ground red. That day was the first day of October. Since then, the poor have eaten red bean rice on the first day of October to commemorate him. There is a nursery rhyme as a testimony: "On the morning of October, look at the cowboy running home; if he refuses to leave, the landlord will slap you with three plows and a thin knife. 3. Cai Mo burned paper to "save" Hui Niang <br /> Chinese folklore says that when Cai Lun first invented paper, business was booming. Cai Lun's sister-in-law Hui Niang asked her husband Cai Mo to learn papermaking from Cai Lun. After returning, they opened a paper mill. However, the paper made by Cai Mo was of poor quality and could not be sold, which made the two of them very anxious. Later, Hui Niang thought of a way to get out of the predicament. One night, Hui Niang pretended to die of an acute illness. Cai Mo was heartbroken and grieved in front of her coffin. He burned paper and cried, "I learned papermaking from my brother, but we were not careful. The quality of the paper we made was poor, and it made you sick. I want to burn this paper to ashes to relieve the hatred in my heart." After he finished burning it, he brought more paper to burn. After burning for a while, he heard Hui Niang shouting in the coffin, "Open the door, I'm back." This frightened people, and they opened the coffin. Hui Niang sang in a pretentious voice: Money in the world can go everywhere, but paper is used in business in the underworld. If my husband hadn’t burned the paper, who would have let me go home? Hui Niang sang many times and said, "Just now I was a ghost, now I am a human, don't be afraid. When I arrived in the underworld, the King of Hell made me suffer by turning a millstone. My husband gave me money, and many little ghosts helped me. It is true that money can make ghosts turn a millstone. The official San Cao also asked me for money. I gave him all the money, and he opened the back door of the underworld and let me come back." Cai Mo pretended to be confused: "I didn't give you any money, did I?" Hui Niang said, "The paper you burn is the money of the underworld." After saying that, Cai Mo picked up a few bundles of paper and burned them for his parents. When the people present heard this, they thought that burning paper had great benefits and they all bought paper from Cai Mo. Hui Niang generously gave the paper to her fellow villagers. Word of this spread from one person to ten, and from ten to a hundred. Villagers from near and far came to buy Cai's paper to burn for their dead relatives. In less than two days, the backlog of paper was sold out. The day when Hui Niang "returned to life" was the first day of the tenth month in the lunar calendar. Therefore, later generations would offer sacrifices to their ancestors and burn paper at their graves on that day to show their remembrance of their ancestors. |
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