When is the Cold Clothes Festival? Is it on the lunar calendar?

When is the Cold Clothes Festival? Is it on the lunar calendar?
Many festivals are calculated based on the lunar calendar. When is the Cold Clothes Festival, one of the three major ghost festivals? Is the Cold Clothes Festival one day? From what date to what date is the Cold Clothes Festival? Is the Cold Clothes Festival based on the lunar calendar? Want to know more about the days in the tenth month of the lunar calendar in 2019? Please pay attention to our Shuimoxiansheng website’s special topic for October 2019 of the lunar calendar!

From which date is the Cold Clothes Festival?

——Date of Cold Clothes Festival:
The first day of the tenth month of the lunar calendar every year
——Therefore, the date of the Cold Clothes Festival should be checked according to the specific year. For example: 2019 Cold Clothes Festival <br /> Lunar calendar 2019 October 1st (Lunar calendar)
October 28, 2019, Monday, Scorpio (Gregorian calendar)
——The 2019 Cold Clothes Festival starts at 00:00 on October 28, 2019 and ends at 24:00 on the 28th.

Is Cold Clothes Festival a day on the lunar calendar?

——The Cold Clothes Festival is determined by the lunar calendar. The first day of the tenth lunar month every year is the Cold Clothes Festival.

The first day of October is called "October Chao", also known as "Ancestor Worship Festival" and "Cold Clothes Festival". my country has a long-standing custom of offering sacrifices to ancestors when the harvest is new, as a way of showing respect and remembrance of one's roots. On the first day of October, people worship their ancestors, both at home and at their tombs, in both the north and the south. Today, in many areas of Jiangnan, there is still the custom of offering sacrifices to new graves on the first day of October. The first day of October is also the first day of winter, and the weather gradually becomes colder after that.
——Burning Clothes Festival:
People are afraid that the souls of their ancestors in the underworld will be short of clothes to wear. Therefore, in addition to the general offerings such as food, incense, candles, paper money, etc., there is also an indispensable offering during the sacrifice - underworld clothes. During sacrifices, people burn funeral clothes for their ancestors, which is called "sending winter clothes." Therefore, the first day of October is also called the "Burning Clothes Festival."

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