What's the date of 202 1 Cold Clothes Festival? What festival is it? What do you do?
What's the date of 202 1 Cold Clothes Festival? What festival is it? What do you do?
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1.202 1 What's the date of the Cold Clothes Festival?
202 1 The specific time of the Cold Clothes Festival is 1 1.5, and the lunar calendar falls on the first day of October in the ugly year. In fact, the time of the Cold Clothes Festival is basically fixed every year, that is, the first day of the tenth lunar month, but the Gregorian calendar time is not fixed. For example, the winter clothing festival in 2020 is 65438+ 10/5. Generally speaking, the traditional festival time in China refers to the lunar calendar. The following is the introduction of the Cold Clothes Festival brought by Bian Xiao:
1. What does Cold Clothes Festival mean?
Cold clothing festival generally means that the cold winter has arrived. At this time, you should not only wear warm clothes, but also send warm clothes to your deceased relatives for the winter. For example, in Guangxi, paper clothes will be made before the Cold Clothes Festival, burned in front of the grave on the day of the festival, and cold clothes will be sent to the deceased relatives to show their concern.
2. Is the Cold Clothes Festival a Ghost Festival?
Hanyi Festival is a ghost festival, because there are three ghost festivals among the people, and the other two are Tomb-Sweeping Day and Zhongyuan Festival. Therefore, there are many taboos on the night of Cold Clothes Festival, and friends who want to know can learn about them.
3. When is the Cold Clothes Festival?
The Cold Clothes Festival has a history of thousands of years in China, and it is the first day of the tenth lunar month every year. According to legend, it originated in the Zhou Dynasty, and actually formed not earlier than the Song Dynasty. It is also a festival for people in northern China to sweep their ancestors and send cold clothes.
2. What is the Cold Clothes Festival?
Hanyi Festival is a traditional festival of sacrifice in China. On this day, people will offer sacrifices to sweep and burn in memory of their deceased relatives. This is called sending cold clothes. Cold clothing festival is mainly popular in the north, and they usually offer sacrifices on this day. When cooking cold clothes, there are usually three sticks of incense, three strange fruits, strange snacks, a bottle of wine, three cigarettes, appropriate candy, paper money or gold ingots. There is also an essential offering, burial clothes, which will be incinerated to ancestors during sacrifice, also called cold clothes.
3. What is the Cold Clothes Festival for?
It is understood that due to different customs in different regions, what needs to be done on the day of Cold Clothes Festival is different. Bian Xiao is roughly organized as follows:
1. Customs of Cold Clothes Festival 1: Burning cold clothes
Ghost clothes are actually cold clothes, but in some areas they are directly burned. People seal a lot of ghost paper in a paper bag, and write the names of the recipients and senders and their corresponding names. It's called burning buns.
2. The second custom of Cold Clothes Festival: worship.
When you arrive at the grave of your ancestors, you should burn incense before waxing, and put some offerings in order. First, the elders kowtow, and then the younger generation. After kowtowing, some people will draw a circle on the grave, and then put paper bags, mingbi and warm clothes in the circle for burning.
3. Customs of Cold Clothes Festival III: Enclosure for grave sweeping
Also, when you draw a circle on the grave, don't forget to add another circle beside it. Mainly to help those ghosts who have no memorial service, so as not to rob their ancestors of clothes to wear.
Generally speaking, the 202 1 Cold Clothes Festival falls on the Gregorian calendar 1 1.5, the first day of the tenth lunar month. In fact, the Cold Clothes Festival is a festival to worship ancestors. Just like Tomb-Sweeping Day, it will burn cold clothes for the dead relatives so that they will not be cold in winter.