When did the Cold Clothes Festival begin? Did it originate from the La Festival?

When did the Cold Clothes Festival begin? Did it originate from the La Festival?
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When did the Cold Clothes Festival begin?

——Legends about the origin of the Cold Clothes Festival "1" Meng Jiangnu weeping at the Great Wall in the Qin Dynasty "2" Cai Lun's sister-in-law's sales promotion method "3" Zhu Yuanzhang's "clothing granting" among the people "4" The legend of "red bean rice" in memory of the cowherd boy.
—Customs and Habits of Cold Clothes Festival: Worship ancestors, either at home or at the grave <br /> On the first day of October, the beginning of the Qin Dynasty, send winter clothes. The Qin people's festival food for the New Year is "millet stew". "Jingchu Sui Shi Ji" records: "On the first day of October, millet stew is commonly known as the beginning of the Qin year." The first day of October in the lunar calendar is called "October Chao". Although the Qin Dynasty perished early, the Qin custom of the beginning of the year was not only continued in the early Han Dynasty, but also had an influence after the Han Dynasty implemented the Taichu Calendar. Volume 38 of Miscellaneous Poems of Ancient and Modern Seasons compiled by Pu Jizhong of the Song Dynasty contains the poem "Written While Drinking in Early Winter" by the poet Shen Ke, in which he wrote: "My people have long been the people of Qin, and even now, in October, the customs are still preserved." From this we can see that remnants of Qin culture still existed in the Song Dynasty.
——The Cold Clothes Festival is popular in the north, but rarely seen in the south.

Did the Cold Clothes Festival originate from the La Festival?

——There are many legends and theories about the origin of the Cold Clothes Festival, but the historical saying is that it originated from the Zhou people's La Festival.
The Zhou people held a grand sacrificial ceremony on the La Festival, which happened to be on the first day of the tenth lunar month. Later, the Book of Songs, the Great Imperial Decrees of the Tang Dynasty, the Song Dynasty's Miscellaneous Notes on Sui Shi, and the Ming Dynasty's Records of the Capital's Scenery: Spring Field all recorded the content of ancestor worship on the first day of October. The Qing Dynasty's Records of the Capital's Sui Shi Sheng specifically mentioned the situation during the "Cold Clothes Festival": "On the first day of the tenth month... scholars and common people worship their ancestors and sweep tombs, just like the Zhongyuan ceremony. In the evening, they seal the paper and make hats, belts, clothes and shoes with five-colored silk, and burn them outside the door, which is called sending off cold clothes."

Burning winter clothes: Sending winter clothes to deceased ancestors
——After the tenth month of the lunar calendar, the temperature will gradually become colder. The living people worry that their deceased ancestors in the distant heaven do not have enough clothes to wear. Therefore, in addition to the general offerings such as food, incense, candles, and paper money, there is also an indispensable offering during the Cold Clothes Festival - clothes for the dead. During sacrifices, people burn funeral clothes for their ancestors, which is called "sending winter clothes."
Burning bundles: a substitute for burning winter clothes
——With the changes of the times, the Cold Clothes Festival has also changed. Many people work away from home and cannot rush back for the Cold Clothes Festival. Some cannot personally deliver the funeral offerings and clothes to the graves. So they no longer burn winter clothes, but instead "burn bundles" instead.

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