Taboo of Cold Clothes Festival: Did you know that people don’t burn Cold Clothes paper for three years during the Cold Clothes Festival? There is a taboo about the Cold Clothes Festival among the people that people should not burn Cold Clothes paper for three years after the festival. What does this mean? The tenth month of the lunar calendar is the first month of winter every year, which means the arrival of winter. Let’s follow Shuimoxiansheng.com to take a look at the relevant content of the tenth month of the lunar calendar in 2019.Taboos of Cold Clothes Festival: Do not burn cold clothes paper for three years during the Cold Clothes FestivalNot burning winter paper for three years refers to the traditional Chinese custom. The first time to burn winter paper after the death of a deceased person must be in an odd year, and the soil must be restored and a tombstone must be erected first. However, the customs vary from region to region. In some regions, there is only the custom of not allowing landfilling during the Qingming Festival in the first three years, and there is no custom of not burning paper during the Cold Clothes Festival.Method of burning winter clothes on the Cold Clothes Festival1. First, prepare the offerings in advance. Generally, it will be prepared in the morning. After the offerings were prepared, the family sent the children to the street to buy some colored paper, paper money, and incense foil for later use. The five-color paper comes in five colors: red, yellow, blue, white and black. It is thin and some even have cotton in the middle. After lunch at noon, the housewife cleaned the stove and gathered the family together so that they could go to the grave and burn winter clothes.2. Pay homage. Arrive at the grave, burn incense and light candles, place dumplings and other offerings neatly, and the family members take turns kneeling and kowtowing. Then draw a circle on the grave, place colored paper and paper money inside the circle, and set it on fire. Some families not only burn paper money for the dead, but also burn "luxury items" such as mansions and cars made of colorful paper. While burning, he would mutter: "So-and-so, you worked hard when you were alive, now you should enjoy yourself after you die, live in a mansion, drive a BMW, and live a splendid life, to the point of madness!" He was afraid that his relatives would not have a good life in the underworld. Some families, when drawing a circle on the grave, remember to add another circle next to it. The purpose is to help those wandering ghosts who have no one to worship them, so that they don't become evil and steal the clothes of their ancestors. A person's fortune changes every ten years, so there is the saying "Ten years in the east, ten years in the west". If you want to know how your fortune will be in life, use the eight-character calculation function on Shuimoxiansheng.com! |
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