What are the customs of Cold Clothes Festival? When is Cold Clothes Festival in 2018?
The Cold Clothes Festival, Qingming Festival and Zhongyuan Festival are known as the three major ghost festivals. On this day, people burn "cold clothes" for their deceased relatives. 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.When is Cold Clothes Festival in 2018?The Cold Clothes Festival, which falls on the first day of the tenth month of the lunar calendar every year, is also known as the "October Morning", "Ancestor Worship Festival" and "Mingyin Festival". It is called Guitou Day by the people. It is a traditional sacrificial festival in my country and is said to have originated in the Zhou Dynasty. The first day of October in the lunar calendar of 2018 corresponds to Thursday, November 8, 2018 in the Gregorian calendar.Customs of Cold Clothes Festival in various parts of my country:1. ShanxiWhen sending winter clothes to the deceased, people in southern Shanxi pay attention to wrapping some cotton in five-colored paper, saying that it is to be used to make cotton clothes and quilts for the deceased.When sending winter clothes to the north in Shanxi, people use five-colored paper to make clothes, hats, shoes, and quilts in various styles. They even had to make a set of paper houses with distinct tiles and pillars and complete doors and windows. 2. HenanOn the first day of October in Luoyang, people cook and fry food, chop meat, make dumplings, and prepare food to offer to their ancestors. In the urban area, Yanshi, Yiyang and other places, some people do not burn winter clothes at old graves, but burn them at their doorsteps and at crossroads. On the first day of October in Xin'an County, a newly married daughter-in-law has to add soil for the deceased elders in her husband's family; those who go to the ancestral temple to worship their ancestors have to play drums and music to add to the fun.3. BeijingMost Beijingers follow the old custom and go to the Southern Paper Shop to buy winter clothing paper before the first day of October. The paper is cut into long strips in the shape of cloth, usually a piece of paper is torn into three or four strips. The pink one is printed with white patterns; the white one is printed with blue lotus patterns; and the yellow one is printed with red patterns. There are also some that use plain colored paper. In short, it's just a symbolic thing. Some people cut the winter clothing paper into shapes of clothes and pants, while others do not cut them and directly put them into packages filled with paper money or ghost money and burn them.4. ShandongIn the central Shandong area, it is popular to burn winter clothes at road intersections in the wild in the evening to commemorate the dead who have no descendants or the wandering ghosts. Every year during the Cold Clothes Festival, they would offer their autumn harvest to their deceased relatives and report the year's harvest to their ancestors. In addition to these, they also cut clothes out of colored paper and burn them for their ancestors, which means "On October 1st, go to the graves and burn winter clothes." In the southwestern Shandong area, in addition to preparing winter clothes, people also make paper-made items based on the deceased's favorite operas or mythological stories for entertainment in the underworld.5. NanjingIn Nanjing, various funeral clothes are put into a red paper bag with the identity and name of the deceased written on it. On the night of the first day of the New Year, the paper bag is placed in the hall for memorial ceremonies and then burned outside the door. At the same time, freshly harvested red beans, glutinous rice, etc. are made into delicacies for the ancestors to taste. |
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