202 1 When is the Cold Clothes Festival? What's the moral?
202 1 Winter Clothing Festival is held on Friday, the first day of October in the Gregorian calendar, at 202101.5.
The Cold Clothes Festival falls on the first day of the tenth lunar month every year. This is a traditional festival of sacrifice, which is popular in the north. On this day, people will worship their ancestors and send them clothes to keep out the cold in winter, so it is called sending cold clothes.
Legend of the origin of the Cold Clothes Festival
1, Cold Clothes Festival was born out of the pre-Qin etiquette of welcoming winter.
According to the Book of Rites, October is the month of beginning of winter. On this day, the son of heaven led three officials and nine ministers to the northern suburbs to hold a winter welcoming ceremony, and returned after the ceremony to reward those who died for their country and compensate their wives and children. But how can the dead be rewarded? Sending them cold clothes should be the proper meaning in the title, and it will work from top to bottom, so it will become a habit.
2. Zhu Yuanzhang's cold clothes and frugal clothes
In ancient times, October of the lunar calendar was the time for rice harvesting and storage. It's the moon again, and the son of heaven begins to descend (The Book of Rites and the Moon Order). The son of heaven told the people with the ceremony of wearing winter clothes that winter had arrived. According to legend, when Zhu Yuanzhang proclaimed himself emperor in Nanjing, in order to show his adaptability to the weather, he dressed ministers on the first day of October of the lunar calendar and made hot soup with freshly harvested red beans and glutinous rice for them to taste. Therefore, there is a folk saying in Nanjing: Wear a cotton-padded jacket in October and eat bean soup to keep out the cold, from which the Cold Clothes Festival comes. In ancient times, people also gave winter clothes to soldiers in the frontier, or businessmen doing business in other places, and vagrants who went out to study. Express people's concern and concern. What's the difference between Cold Food Festival and Cold Clothes Festival?
The specific date of the Cold Food Festival is after the winter solstice 105. At present, the day before Tomb-Sweeping Day is the day to celebrate the Cold Food Festival in most parts of Shanxi. Some places, such as Yushe County, celebrated the Cold Food Festival two days before Tomb-Sweeping Day. Yuanqu County also pays attention to Tomb-Sweeping Day's Cold Food Festival the day before, and the light cold food the day before.
Hanyi Festival is the first day of October. Since ancient times, our country has the custom of offering sacrifices to ancestors at harvest time to show filial piety and not forget our roots. Ancient people also offered sacrifices to their ancestors Xiaomi on the first day of the tenth lunar month. Hanyi Festival is also called October Dynasty, Ancestor Festival and Ghost Festival. On this day, special attention is paid to paying homage to those who died first.