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What's the winter clothing festival 2018? The origin and customs of Hanyi Festival

The day after tomorrow is Hanyi Festival. Hanyi Festival is an important festival in the north. How much do you know about the customs of Hanyi Festival? On October 1 of the lunar calendar, passers-by send Hanyi, the dead celebrate the festival, and the living are busy sacrificing. On the first day of October in the lunar calendar, it's a festival in the underworld, a traditional Ghost Festival, and also a "cold clothes Festival" in folk customs.

The first day of the lunar month is Hanyi Festival. Every year, on the first day of the first month of the lunar month, it is called "October Dynasty", also known as "ancestor worship Festival". For the winter clothing festival. It's also called the festival of the dead. On this day, we pay special attention to offering sacrifices to those who died first. It's called sending cold clothes. With the spring Qingming Festival, the autumn Zhongyuan Festival, and known as the three major 'Ghost Festival' of the year. In order to avoid the cold and cold in the hell, on this day, people will burn five color paper, send them clothes to keep warm, and send warmth to the ghosts. On October 1, the burning of cold clothes is the memory of the past and the compassion of the living for the dead. At the same time, this day also marks the arrival of severe winter, so it is also a day for parents and lovers to send warm clothes to the people they care about.

On the first day of October, there is also the custom of sacrificing the king of cattle in some places. It is said that this custom originated in the Qin State in the spring and Autumn period. One day, Qin Wengong ordered people to cut down a catalpa tree, which suddenly turned into a cow. Duke Wen of Qin is hunted down. The cow jumped into the water and never came up again. People set up "Nu te Temple" to sacrifice the ox God. Nu te is a tall, strong and majestic bull. This kind of bull, in people's mind, has the function of driving away epidemic diseases and evil spirits and protecting cattle.

Customs of Hanyi Festival

After October 1 of the lunar calendar, the weather is getting colder day by day. Therefore, people not only need to send cold clothes to the dead for winter, but also need to carry out some traditional activities to symbolize winter for the living. On this day, women will take out their cotton padded clothes and let their children and husbands change seasons. If the weather is still warm at this time and it is not suitable to wear cotton, we should also urge our children and husbands to try it on for good luck. Men are used to cleaning their stoves and pipes on this day. After installation, try to make a fire to keep warm in cold weather.

Steps of delivering cold clothes:

If you go to the graveyard, you should first clean the tombstone and the nearby dust, weeds and unclean things, then select a place to draw a large circle, put on tributes, light incense candles, burn paper money and cold clothes, pray while burning, report the happy events and good things in the family, and let the ancestors enjoy peace there. After burning the cold clothes, bow, mourn the ancestors in silence, extinguish the incense and go home together (don't forget to burn a little outside the circle, and send some to the nearby miracles, hoping that they can get along with your ancestors peacefully).