How many ghost festivals do you know in China? There are three Ghost Festivals in China. One is Qingming Festival, the other is Zhongyuan Festival, and the other is Hanyi Festival. What are the customs of Hanyi Festival? How can I offer sacrifice to the cold clothes Festival?
Is it one day for Ghost Festival and cold clothes Festival 2018
Hanyi Festival is one of the three major Ghost Festivals, so 2018 Ghost Festival and Hanyi Festival are the same day.
The calendar time of cold clothes festival in 2018 is November 18, the first day of October in the lunar calendar.
It is the first day of winter on the first day of October in the lunar calendar. Since then, the weather is gradually cold. People are afraid that the souls of their ancestors in the underworld will lack clothes and wear less. Therefore, in addition to food, candles, paper money and other general offerings, there is an indispensable offering - the underworld. In sacrifice, people burn the ghost clothes to their ancestors, which is called "sending cold clothes".
Later, in some places, the custom of "burning cold clothes" changed. Instead of burning cold clothes, people sealed many dead papers in a paper bag and wrote down the names of the receiver and the sender as well as their corresponding names, which was called "package". There is the name of cold clothes, but there is no real cold clothes. People think that as in the world of the dead and the world of the sun, money can buy many things.
Customs of Hanyi Festival
The first day of October in the lunar calendar is called the October Dynasty. Since ancient times, there has been a custom of offering sacrifices to ancestors at the time of new harvest in order to show filial piety and not forget their roots. The ancients also sacrificed millet to their ancestors on the first day of October in the lunar calendar. On the first day of October in the lunar calendar, there are family sacrifices and tomb sacrifices. This is true in the north and the south. Today, in many areas of the south of the Yangtze River, there is a custom of sacrificing new graves on the first day of October.
It is the first day of winter on the first day of October in the lunar calendar. Since then, the weather is gradually cold. People are afraid that the souls of their ancestors in the underworld will lack clothes and wear less. Therefore, in addition to food, candles, paper money and other general offerings, there is an indispensable offering - the underworld. In sacrifice, people burn the ghost clothes to their ancestors, which is called sending cold clothes.
Later, in some places, the custom of "burning cold clothes" changed. Instead of burning cold clothes, people sealed many dead papers in a paper bag and wrote down the names of the receiver and the sender as well as their corresponding names, which was called "package". There is the name of cold clothes, but there is no real cold clothes. People think that as in the world of the dead and the world of the sun, money can buy many things.
How to burn cold clothes in cold clothes Festival
Preparation for offerings
Usually in the morning. After the offerings were made, the family sent their children to the street to buy some colorful paper, Styx and incense foil for use. Five color paper is red, yellow, blue, white, black five colors, thin, and some of the middle also contains cotton. After lunch, the housewife cleaned up the pot and called the whole family. Then she could go to the grave and burn cold clothes.
Worship
In front of the grave, burn incense and wax, put the dumplings and other offerings in order, and the family knelt down and kowtowed in turn; then draw a circle around the grave, put the five color paper and Styx in the circle, and light the fire. Some people not only burn Styx, but also burn luxury goods such as mansions and cars made of five color paper, and they say: "so and so, you have to work hard while you are alive. If you die, you can have a good life. Live in a luxury house, drive a BMW, have a beautiful scenery, and die of anger!" for fear that your family will not live a good life in hell.
Others, when drawing a circle on the grave, don't forget to add another circle beside it. Its purpose is to help those orphans who have no sacrifice, so as not to rob their ancestors' clothes.
Taboo of Hanyi Festival
All clothes and banknotes given to the dead must be burned. Only when they are burned clean, can these papers of the world be transformed into silk and satin cloth, bedclothes of houses, gold, silver and copper money of the underworld. As long as there is no burning up, all the previous achievements will be discarded and the dead can not use them. So on October 1st, we should burn cold clothes carefully. This kind of action is funny, but
It also reflects the mourning and reverence of the living for the dead, which is a kind of spiritual sustenance.
When Chinese people send cold clothes, they also pay attention to burning some colorful paper at the crossroads, which symbolizes cloth and silk. The purpose is to help those orphans who have no ancestor worship, so as to avoid the winter supplies sent to their relatives being robbed by them.
Burning cold clothes, some places in front of the tomb of the dead, pay attention to the sun before the tomb. Some places are used to burning sacrifices in front of the door. In many places in Yanbei and Pingyao County in Jinzhong, women would cry loudly outside in the evening. In the old days of Linxian County, there was a poem: 'stick paper to cut clothes, burn away the ashes in the morning. Whether the fruit of yuhanquantai can be used? But it's easy to hear the sad voice! 'not only describes the scene of delivering cold clothes, but also questions its legendary effect. Children are filial, wear three years of filial piety. On the first day of October in the year of filial piety, change into regular clothes. Chinese people are also used to the ceremony of moving graves and burials together.