Introduction to Cold Clothes Festival, Origin of Cold Clothes Festival
The tenth month of the lunar calendar has arrived. Did you know that the first day of October is the Cold Clothes Festival? The Cold Clothes Festival, Qingming Festival and Zhongyuan Festival are known as the three major ghost festivals. In the sky of October in the lunar calendar, the wind is no longer gentle, the sunlight is no longer bright, and the chill of winter has spread. Follow Shuimoxiansheng.com and take a look at the contents of the lunar calendar for October 2018.Legend of the origin of Cold Clothes FestivalAccording to folklore, Meng Jiangnu and her husband were newly married when her husband was captured and forced to perform labor construction the Great Wall. Winter was coming, and Meng Jiangnu traveled thousands of miles to the scene to bring clothes to her husband to keep him warm. Unexpectedly, her husband died at the construction site and was buried under the city wall. Meng Jiangnu was heartbroken and cried out to the sky, which moved God. She cried so hard that the Great Wall collapsed. They found her husband's body and reburied him in the cotton clothes she had brought. This gave rise to the “Sending Winter Clothes Festival”.Introduction to Cold Clothes FestivalThe Cold Clothes Festival is held on the first day of the tenth month of the lunar calendar every year and is a traditional sacrificial festival in my country. The Cold Clothes Festival is popular in the north. Many northerners will pay homage to their deceased relatives on this day, which is called sending cold clothes. The Cold Clothes Festival, the Tomb-Sweeping Day and the Ghost Festival are collectively known as China's three major "Ghost Festivals". After the first day of the tenth lunar month in the north, the weather becomes colder day by day. For this reason, people not only send winter clothes to the deceased, but the living also have to carry out some traditional activities that symbolize the winter. |
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