What are the festival customs of the Winter Clothes Festival and what are the taboos of folk customs
Hanyi Festival is one of the major festivals in our country’s traditional sacrifice to ancestors., The folk festival custom is to burn paper money and clothes for the deceased, change warm cotton-padded clothes for the living, clean the house, eat noodles, and keep warm.
Introduction to the Winter Clothes Festival
The Winter Clothes Festival, the first day of the tenth lunar month every year, is also known as "October Dynasty", "Ancestor Festival", "Mingyin Festival" and "Autumn Festival".Known as Guitou Day, it is a traditional sacrificial festival of the Han people.According to legend, it originated in the Zhou Dynasty, and its actual formation was not earlier than the Song Dynasty.The Winter Clothes Festival is popular in the northern regions of my country.On this day, people will make sacrifices and sacrifices to commemorate the deceased relatives, which is called sending cold clothing.People in northern my country call the Winter Clothes Festival, the Qingming Festival in spring and the Zhongyuan Festival on July 15 as the three major "ghost festivals" in China.
Customs and activities of the Winter Clothes Festival
Burning the cold clothing
The burning of the cold clothing is carried out in some places in front of the grave of the deceased.In some places it is customary to burn sacrifices in front of the door.In many places in Yanbei and Pingyao and other counties in central Jinzhong, women would cry loudly outside their doors in the evening.There is a poem in Linxian County:"Paper-made garments are cut and burned in the early morning to remove the ashes.Is it useful to keep out the cold spring? But the sound of sadness is pleasing to the ear!" questioned.Children observe filial piety and wear filial piety for three years.On the 1st day of the 10th lunar month in the year of filial piety, one should change into regular clothes.Ceremony such as the relocation of the ancestors’ graves and the joint burial, the Chinese people are always used to carry out the 1st October.
Other Customs
In some places in my country, on October 1st, not only do the deceased send cold clothes for the winter, but the living also carry out some traditional activities that symbolize the winter.On this day, women will take out the cotton-padded clothes they have made so that their children and husbands can change the season.If the weather is still warm at this time and it is not suitable to wear cotton, you should also urge your children and husband to try it on, and it will be auspicious.Men are accustomed to tidy up stoves and chimneys on this day.After the installation is complete, try to make a fire to ensure smooth heating when the weather is cold.Women are not allowed to travel on October 1st.Chinese folks improve their lives, and they eat buckwheat noodles and glutinous rice noodles in mountainous areas.
Folk taboos on the Winter Clothes Festival
All the clothes and coins that are given to the deceased must be burned.Transformed into satin cloth, house quilts and gold, silver and copper coins of the underworld.As long as there is one point that is not burned, all previous efforts will be lost, and the dead cannot use it.Therefore, the burning of cold clothes on the first day of October must be very careful and meticulous.Although this kind of action seems funny, it also reflects the mourning and reverence of the living for the deceased, and it belongs to a kind of spiritual sustenance.When giving away cold clothes, they also pay attention to burning some colored paper at the crossroads, symbolizing cloth and silk.The purpose is to relieve those lonely souls who have no one to worship their ancestors, so as not to rob them of the winter supplies sent to their relatives.
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