The purpose of burning paper on Cold Clothes Festival is to bring bad news to the underworld, to the dead ancestors, and to make people suffer less in the underworld; The first day of the tenth lunar month is the day to treat wine, burn paper, burn incense, pay homage to the dead and sweep graves. This custom has continued, and there are more graves in the countryside than this day.
The origin of the Cold Clothes Festival
The origin of the Cold Clothes Festival, the most widely spread is Meng Jiangnu's newly married Yaner, whose husband was arrested for folk service and built the Great Wall. When autumn came and winter came, Meng Jiangnv went through all the hardships to send her husband warm clothes. Who knows that her husband died at the construction site and was buried under the city wall. Meng Jiangnv was heartbroken, wailing at the sky, touching the sky, crying down the Great Wall, and putting on her cotton-padded clothes again for burial. Therefore, it falls on the first day of the tenth lunar month and is called "Cold Clothes Festival".