What are the taboos of the Cold Clothes Festival? Introduction to the origin of the Cold Clothes Festival
The Cold Clothes Festival is on the first day of the tenth month of the lunar calendar every year. It is also known as the "October Morning", "Ancestor Worship Festival" and "Mingyin Festival". People call it the Ghost Head Day. It is held to commemorate the deceased. Shuimoxiansheng.com has carefully compiled detailed information about the tenth month of the lunar calendar in 2018. If you want to know the auspicious and inauspicious days in the tenth month of the lunar calendar, just go to Shuimoxiansheng.com.What are the taboos of Cold Clothes Festival?1. It is a traditional Chinese custom not to burn winter paper for three years . 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 erected first. The customs in each region are different. You can burn paper, but in some areas you are not allowed to fill the soil during the Qingming Festival for the first three years. There is no custom of not burning paper during the Cold Clothes Festival.2. Don’t hang a wind chime at the head of the bed. If it has been hung at the head of the bed before, you should take it down on the Cold Clothes Festival. Because wind chimes are objects that easily attract ghosts, and people are most likely to be invaded by ghosts when they are sleeping. 3. When sending winter clothes as gifts, you are not allowed to add cotton. Use blue paper for the outside and white paper for the inside. Just use glue to stick a thin layer of cotton in the middle to make a set of winter clothes and shoes. If you don’t know how to make a wreath, you can go to a wreath shop. 4. Be careful when burning winter clothes. All clothes and paper money sent to the deceased must be burned. Only when they are burned thoroughly can these papers from the world of the living be transformed into silk, cloth, houses, clothes, quilts, gold, silver and copper coins in the underworld. As long as there is even a little bit that is not burned out, all previous efforts will be wasted and the deceased cannot use it. Therefore, when burning winter clothes on October 1st, you must be particularly careful and meticulous. 5. The cremation must be done during the Cold Clothes Festival or in advance. If it is done after October 1st, the deceased will not be able to put on his sleeves or pull up his pants. After being born, he will wipe his nose with his sleeves when getting dressed and kick his pants when wearing them. This behavior will accompany him throughout his life. 6. During the Cold Clothes Festival, when adding soil to graves, you don’t need a basket. Instead, you use clothes to scoop up the soil. The more soil you scoop up, the more prosperous the clan will be. The head of the family leads his children and grandchildren to add soil to the ancestral tomb. They carry food boxes, a large square table and rich offerings (20 to 30 large bowls) and go to the tomb one by one to worship. This is called "going to the big tomb". What is the origin of the Cold Clothes Festival?1. It was derived from the winter welcoming rituals of the pre-Qin period.According to the Book of Rites, the tenth month of the lunar calendar is the month of the beginning of winter. On this day, the emperor led the three dukes and nine ministers to the northern suburbs to hold a winter welcoming ceremony. After the ceremony, they returned to reward those who died for the country and provide relief to their wives and children. How can the dead be rewarded? "Sending winter clothes" to them should be the natural consequence of the reward, and this practice will be followed by others and become a custom. However, this view can only remain at the level of inference, because the records of Chinese people "burning and offering" "funeral clothes, boots, shoes, mats, hats, and pieces of clothing" on the first day of October did not appear until the Song Dynasty in the local customs records of literati. If it is said that the Cold Clothes Festival was formed in the pre-Qin period, it would be difficult to give a reasonable explanation for the blank records for such a long period of time. 2. Zhu Yuanzhang "granted clothes". Legend has it that the tenth month of the lunar calendar was an important month in ancient times. It was the time when rice was harvested and stored in warehouses. "In this month, the emperor began to wear fur coats." The emperor used the ceremony of wearing winter clothes to announce to the common people that winter had come. According to legend, Zhu Yuanzhang proclaimed himself emperor in Nanjing in the early Ming Dynasty. In order to show that he was in compliance with the will of heaven, he held a morning court on the first day of October, performed the "clothing-granting" ceremony, and made a hot soup with freshly harvested red beans and glutinous rice for his ministers to taste. A Nanjing folk proverb says: "In the morning of October, wear a cotton-padded jacket and eat bean soup to keep out the cold." "Cold Clothes Festival" came from this. While people are putting on more clothes to keep out the cold, they are also sending winter clothes to those who are guarding the border, doing business, or studying far away from home to show their concern and care. 3. Meng Jiangnu Delivered Winter Clothes Across Thousands of Miles . According to legend, during the Qin Dynasty, the Meng and Jiang families in Songjiang Prefecture in Jiangnan planted gourds and gave birth to a daughter, named Meng Jiangnu, who married Fan Qiliang. Later, Qi Liang was captured and forced to build the Great Wall in the northern border. Meng Jiangnu traveled thousands of miles to find her husband and give him winter clothes. When she arrived at the foot of the Great Wall, she found that her husband had died and was buried inside the wall. Meng Jiangnu was filled with grief and indignation. She cried towards the Great Wall day and night. Finally, she moved heaven and earth so much that her tears collapsed the Great Wall, revealing her husband's body. For thousands of years, this story of loyal love has been widely circulated. After Meng Jiangnu cried down the 800-li Great Wall, she confronted Qin Shihuang face to face, avenged her husband and vented her anger. Finally, she jumped into the sea with her husband's remains in her arms and died with him. At the moment of jumping into the sea, the waves surged and slowly arched up two reefs. It is said that Jiangnu's tomb on the sea can never be submerged no matter how high the tide is. Because of the story of Meng Jiangnu who traveled thousands of miles to find her husband and send him winter clothes, the first day of the tenth month of the lunar calendar is called "Cold Clothes Festival" both inside and outside the Great Wall. "Burning winter clothes on the first day of October" has long become a custom in the north to pay tribute to deceased relatives. |
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