Lunar calendar 10 is usually called "Ghost Festival" or "Winter Dress Festival". Pay special attention to paying tribute to the dead on this day. This is called sending cold clothes.
Winter Clothing Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Mid-Autumn Festival are also called the three "ghost festivals" in a year. At the same time, this day also marks the coming of severe winter, so it is also a day for parents and lovers to send warm clothes to people they care about.
In the Han tradition, people are worried about the lack of clothes for the ancestors of Mingjian. Therefore, in addition to food, incense sticks, paper money and other common sacrifices, there is also an indispensable sacrifice-Yi Ming. When offering sacrifices, Yi Ming was burned to his ancestors, which is called "sending cold clothes".
The habit of "burning cold clothes" has changed a little in some places. Instead of burning clothes, they "burned luggage". People seal many documents in a paper bag, and write down the recipients and senders. The name and the corresponding title are called "burden". I can't believe that Ming sword is the same as Yang sword. You can buy many things with money.
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In the rural areas of Luoyang, every year on June 65438+1 October1,farmers buy five-color paper to make traditional folk snacks, such as pancakes, peaches, avocados and fried dough sticks. The whole family closed early, folded a "spindle" with a kind of tin foil paper, and waited for the evening to burn incense and paper around 10 to commemorate their ancestors.
All clothes, money and other things given to the dead must be burned. Only by burning them can clean Yang Can paper become silk, satin, furniture, gold, silver and copper coins. As long as it is not burned, all previous efforts will be wasted, and the dead will not use it. Therefore, you must be extra careful when burning clothes on June 10. Although this kind of behavior seems interesting, it also reflects the sadness and respect for the deceased and is a spiritual sustenance.