Hanyi Festival is a traditional festival in the north. Like Qingming Festival, it is to pay tribute to the dead relatives. What does Hanyi Festival mean? What are the customs of Hanyi Festival? I don't know. Let's get to know it with Xiaobian!
What festival is Hanyi Festival
It is a festival in the north, which can be understood as the 'Ghost Festival' in the north.
1. The first day of October is a traditional Chinese cold clothing festival, also known as Autumn Festival, ghost day, October Dynasty, ancestor worship Festival, clothing burning Festival, clothing giving Festival, etc. because one of the religious symbols of sacrificing ancestors on ghost day is crying, it is also called "crying Festival". It is also known as China's four major Ghost Festivals together with March 3, Qingming Festival and Zhongyuan Festival.
2. The first day of October is called the October Dynasty. Since ancient times, there has been a custom of offering sacrifices to ancestors at the time of new harvest to show filial piety and not forget their roots. The ancients also sacrificed their ancestors with millet on the first day of October of the lunar calendar. On the first day of the tenth month of the lunar calendar, there are family sacrifices and tomb sacrifices. This is true in both the South and the north. Today, many areas in the south of the Yangtze River still have the custom of offering new graves on the first day of the tenth month.
3. Hanyi Festival is also a traditional Chinese folk custom. In ancient China, Hanyi Festival, Qingming Festival and Shangsi festival in spring and Zhongyuan festival in autumn are called the four "Ghost Festivals" of the year. At the same time, this day also marks the arrival of severe winter, so it is also a day to send warm clothes for parents, lovers and other concerned people.
Hanyi festival custom
It is common to send clothes. The arrival of the cold clothes festival also means that the weather is getting colder.
1. Different from the Qingming Festival and the Zhongyuan Festival, on the first day of October, in addition to giving paper money to the dead in the form of burning, because it coincides with the first day of the cold winter season, the living people add clothes to protect themselves from the cold and think of the cold needs of the dead, so the traditional cold clothes festival also sends cold clothes made of five-color paper to express the memory of future generations to the dead.
2. Custom of Shanxi cold clothes Festival: when delivering cold clothes in southern Shanxi, pay attention to wrapping some cotton in five-color paper, saying it is used to make cotton clothes and quilts for the dead.
3. When delivering cold clothes in the north, we should make five-color paper into various styles of clothes, hats, shoes and quilts. Even make a paper house with clear tile columns and doors and windows. In addition to shrinking in size, these paper handicrafts look more exquisite and beautiful than real houses and yards.
4. All clothes, banknotes and other things given to the dead must be burned. Only when they are burned cleanly can these Yang paper be transformed into silk and satin cloth, house clothes and blankets, gold, silver and copper money in the underworld. As long as one point is not burned, all previous efforts will be wasted and dead people can't use it. Therefore, we should be particularly careful when burning cold clothes on October 1.
Hanyi Festival
Hanyi Festival, on the first day of October of the lunar calendar every year, is also known as' October Dynasty ',' ancestor worship Festival 'and' ghost Yin Festival '. People call it ghost head day. It is a traditional sacrificial festival in China. It is said to have originated in the Zhou Dynasty. Hanyi Festival is popular in the north. Many Northerners will sweep on this day to commemorate their dead relatives, which is called sending Hanyi. In the north, Hanyi Festival, Qingming Festival in spring and Zhongyuan Festival on July 15 are called the three "Ghost Festivals" in China. At the same time, this day also marks the arrival of severe winter, so it is also a day to send warm clothes for parents, lovers and other concerned people.
Usually in the morning. After the offerings were arranged, the family sent their children to the street to buy some five-color paper, ghost coins and incense foil for standby. The five color paper is red, yellow, blue, white and black. It is thin, and some of them are sandwiched with cotton. After lunch, the housewife cleaned up the pot and asked the whole family to go to the grave and burn cold clothes.