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How Many Years Should You Send Winter Clothes on the Cold Clothes Festival? Do You Not Burn Paper Clothes for Three Years?
Published: 2019/10/11   Author: zyx   Source: network
The Cold Clothes Festival has the custom of sending cold clothes, but some friends are curious about it. How many years do you need to send cold clothes? Let's take a look at how many years you need to send cold clothes during the Cold Clothes Festival. Every day is different, and the contents of the Chinese calendar also vary. Want to know the content of the lunar calendar in October? Come to Huayi Divination Network now.

How many years do you need to send cold clothes during the Cold Clothes Festival?

During the Cold Clothes Festival, you need to send cold clothes every year!
There is no idea that you don't need to send cold clothes after a certain number of years. Therefore, you need to send cold clothes every year.
The Cold Clothes Festival, known as "the tenth day of the tenth month," is also called the "ancestral memorial festival." Since ancient times, the Chinese have had the custom of sacrificing ancestors when they harvest, to show filial piety and not forget their roots. So people also used millet to sacrifice ancestors on the first day of the tenth month. The ancestral worship on the first day of the tenth month includes family worship and tomb worship, which is the same in both northern and southern China.
The Cold Clothes Festival is held on the first day of the tenth month of the lunar calendar, also known as "the tenth day of the tenth month," "the ancestral memorial festival," and "the Yin and Yang festival." On this day, people pay special attention to mourning the deceased, which is called sending cold clothes. The Cold Clothes Festival, along with the Qingming Festival in spring and the Zhongyuan Festival in autumn, is known as one of the three major "ghost festivals" of the year. At the same time, this day also marks the arrival of severe winter, so it is also the day when parents and loved ones send warm clothes to those they care about.

Three years without burning cold clothes paper?

In China, there is no such custom.
According to traditional Chinese customs, the first time you burn cold clothes paper for a deceased person must be in an odd year, and you must first cover the grave with soil and set up a tombstone. Customs vary by region; some allow burning paper, while some only prohibit filling the grave for the first three years of Qingming Festival. There is no custom of not burning paper on the Cold Clothes Festival.
So, in China, there is no custom of not burning cold clothes paper for three years.

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