Every year, the first day of the tenth lunar month is the Cold Clothes Festival, so the Cold Clothes Festival is also known as "Tenth Month Day." What are the customs of the Cold Clothes Festival? How to perform ancestral worship on the Cold Clothes Festival? Learn more with us. Every day is a new day, but not every day is a good day. Do you want to know which days in October are good days? Come to Huayi.com's special page for the tenth lunar month to find out.

What are the customs of the Cold Clothes Festival?

In Han Chinese folk tradition, on the first day of the tenth lunar month, people not only send cold clothes to the deceased for winter, but also carry out some traditional activities symbolizing the coming of winter. On this day, women take out the warm clothes they have made and let their children and husbands change seasons. If the weather is still warm and not suitable for wearing thick clothes, they still urge their children and husbands to try them on, just for good luck.
There is a Beijing proverb that says, "On the first day of the tenth month, send cold clothes." This means that when the weather gets cold, everyone wears new clothes, and it's also time to send some cold clothes to the deceased relatives. So people always make "Cold Clothes Packages" and "Gold and Silver Bundles" in advance. They write the address on the outside of the bundle, such as "Received by Mr. XXX," and then burn them;
In Shandong, the Cold Clothes Festival is a traditional day for visiting ancestors' graves. On this day, besides burning paper money, people also cut colored paper into clothing and hats, and burn them in front of the graves, which is called "On the first day of the tenth month, burn cold clothes at the grave." It means sending winter clothes to ancestors. The residents of Huantai mostly use "fried fillings" to worship ancestors. In the evening, they go to the wild roadsides to offer sacrifices to the dead without descendants, adding "cold protection clothes";
On the Cold Clothes Festival, people in Jiangsu make paper clothes made of various colored papers, put them into a red paper bag, and write the identity and name of the deceased on the bag. On the night of the first day, they place the paper bag on the altar for a ritual, then take it outside to burn it, showing their remembrance of the deceased;
On the Cold Clothes Festival, people in Shaanxi use various colored papers to cut and paste clothes, and burn them at the ancestors' tombs in the evening, which is called "sending cold clothes." According to folk legends, on this day, wandering souls gather, and when people burn cold clothes, they not only burn for ancestors but also burn extra ones for nameless wandering souls.

How to perform ancestral worship on the Cold Clothes Festival?

What paper is used on the Cold Clothes Festival
1. Perforated yellow paper, usually made into a gold ingot shape with holes, the size of the gold ingot can vary;
2. Gold foil-shaped gold ingots;
3. Square yellow paper with a small square piece of gold foil pasted in the center.
Precautions for Ancestral Worship on the Cold Clothes Festival
1. Do not worship those who died suddenly (people who died in an accident).
2. When worshipping at the ancestral hall or tablet, there are no other procedures, just burn three incense sticks, call out the ancestors while burning paper, and make a wish for family blessings.
3. Draw a circle on the ground, not fully enclosed with a small opening, so that ancestors can receive the blessings of the offering. First, burn some paper outside the circle to reward the five directions of land and the passing spirits in the sky; then burn paper inside the circle, asking the land and passing spirits to deliver these blessings to the ancestors; when burning paper, you can make a wish for the ancestors to protect your family.
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