On October 1st, it's the Cold Clothes Festival. On this day, people pay attention to paying homage to those who died first, which is called sending cold clothes. With the Qingming Festival in spring and the Mid-Autumn Festival in autumn, it is also called the three "ghost festivals" in a year.

The purpose of burning paper on Cold Clothes Festival is to bring the bad news to the underworld and give it to the deceased ancestors, so that people can suffer less in the underworld; The first day of October in the lunar calendar is a day to cure wine, burn paper, burn incense, pay homage to the dead and sweep graves. This custom has continued, and there are more graves in rural areas than this day.

The origin of the Cold Clothes Festival

The most popular story is that Meng Jiangnu was newly married, and her husband was arrested to serve in the ballad service and build the Great Wall. When autumn came and winter came, Meng Jiangnv went all the way and went through all the hardships to send clothes for her husband to keep out the cold.

Who knows that her husband died at the construction site and was buried under the city wall. Meng Jiangnv was heartbroken, wailed at the sky, touched the sky, cried down the Great Wall, and re-dressed and buried with the cotton-padded clothes she brought. Therefore, it falls on the first day of October in the lunar calendar and is called "Cold Clothes Festival".