2. In the north, the Cold Clothes Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day in spring and the Mid-Autumn Festival on July 15th are collectively called the three "ghost festivals" in China. At the same time, this day also marks the arrival of severe winter, so it is also a day to send warm clothes to parents, lovers and other people who care about it.
3, customs and habits: October, the beginning of the Qin Dynasty, send cold clothes. The festival food of the Qin people for the New Year is "millet _", and the Record of Jingchu Years Old records: "The first day of October, millet _, is commonly called the first year of the Qin Dynasty." The first day of October in the lunar calendar is called the October Dynasty. Although the Qin Dynasty died early, the habit of the beginning of the Qin Dynasty was not only used in the early Han Dynasty, but also had an influence after the Han Dynasty's taichu calendar. Pu Jizhong, a Song Dynasty poet, compiled Miscellaneous Odes on Ancient and Modern Years, which contains 38 poems about drinking in early winter by the poet Shen Li, in which he chanted: "My people have been Qin people for a long time, and they still have customs in October." From this, we can see that the Qin culture remained until the Song Dynasty. Since ancient times, our country has had the custom of paying homage to our ancestors at the new harvest time to show filial piety and not forget our roots. Ancient people also sacrificed millet to their ancestors on the first day of the tenth lunar month. On the first day of October in the lunar calendar, ancestors are sacrificed, including family sacrifices and tomb sacrifices. Cold clothing festival is popular in the north, but rarely heard in the south. [ 1][ 10]
4. In the north, after the first day of the tenth lunar month, the weather is getting colder every day. For this reason, people should not only send cold clothes to the dead for the winter, but also carry out some traditional activities symbolizing the winter. On this day, women will take out their cotton-padded clothes and let their children and husbands change seasons. If the weather is still warm and it is not suitable to wear cotton at this time, we should also urge our children and husbands to try it on for good luck. Men are used to arranging stoves and chimneys on this day. After the installation, try to make a fire to ensure smooth heating in cold weather. In addition to food, incense sticks, paper money and other general offerings, there is also an indispensable offering-the shroud. At the time of offering sacrifices, people incinerate the ghost clothes to their ancestors, which is called sending cold clothes.
5. Later, in some places, the custom of "burning cold clothes" changed. Instead of burning cold clothes, people burned a lot of ghost papers in a paper bag, and wrote the names of the recipients and senders and their corresponding names. This is called "baggage". There is a name of cold clothes, but there is no reality of cold clothes. People think that the underworld, like the dead, can buy many things with money.