The first day of November is the Cold Food Festival, and November is the 11th month of the year. It is also called the winter month, frost month, and frost month.

Festival customs:

1. No fire

In ancient times, the Cold Food Festival was also called the "No Smoking Festival". Every family prohibited lighting fires and ate cold food. However, due to the persistence of the Chinese people in commemorating their ancestors, it was banned and revived repeatedly from the Eastern Han Dynasty to the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and the royal family of the Tang Dynasty recognized and participated in it.

2. Chanting Poems

During the Cold Food Festival, literati either miss their hometown or their relatives, or take advantage of the scenery to create feelings. They are especially emotional and inspired, and poetry flourishes, with many chanters. . According to research, "Complete Poems of the Tang Dynasty" alone contains more than 300 poems by celebrities such as Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, Zhang Shuo, Du Fu, Han Yu, Liu Zongyuan, etc., as well as more than 100 poems and songs from the Song, Jin and Yuan Dynasties, which has become a unique flower in the art of Chinese poetry.

3. Swing

Swing was originally a recreational item for palace women during the ancient Cold Food Festival. "Kaiyuan Tianbao Legacy" written by Wang Renyu of the Five Dynasties records that "a swing was erected in Tianbao Palace during the Cold Food Festival, which made the concubines laugh and think it was a feast. The emperor called it a play of half-immortals, and the soldiers and people in the capital called it accordingly." Wen Yanbo, Prime Minister of the Song Dynasty The poem "The Cold Food Sun Passes Over the Dragon Gate" is described in the poem as "Willows hang green lines beside the bridge, and swings are lined with colorful ropes."?

4. Diet

Cold food foods include cold food porridge, cold food Noodles, cold food pulp, green rice and glutinous rice, etc.; cold food offerings include noodle swallows, snakes and rabbits, jujube cakes, fine barley, sacred glutinous rice, etc.; beverages include spring wine, new tea, clear spring sweet water, etc. dozens of kinds. Most of them have profound meanings, such as offering sacrifices to snakes and rabbits. There is a popular saying that "snake and rabbit will definitely make you rich", which means hoping that the people will be rich and the country will be strong.

The Cold Clothes Festival is also known as the "October Dynasty", "Ancestor Worship Festival" and "Ningyin Festival". People call it Guitou Day. It is a traditional sacrificial festival in my country. It is said that it originated in the Zhou Dynasty.

The Winter Clothes Festival is popular in the north. Many northerners will sacrifice their bodies on this day to commemorate their deceased relatives, which is called giving away cold clothes. In the north, the Winter Clothes Festival, the Qingming Festival every spring, and the Ghost Festival on July 15th are collectively known as China's three major "Ghost Festivals". At the same time, this day also marks the arrival of severe winter, so it is also a day to give warm clothes to parents, loved ones and other people you care about.