Winter Clothes Day
winter clothes day tombsweeping day hungry ghost festival day people offer sacrifice ancestor china winter clothes day fall first day lunar october october first lunar calendar come winter thus people feel cold make miss dead protect ancestor cold netherworld people send clothes called winter clothes day october first chinese people burn clothes made colorful paper front graf ancestor keep warm time day mark arrival dead winter consequently day parent lover send clothes living care time go day becomes festival people offer sacrifice ancestor according legend origin winter clothes day related beautiful sad love story qin dynasty first emperor qin reunited china established new country however lived extravagant dissipated life recruited laborer build great wall mausoleum said qin dynasty lived family named meng planted gourd yard leaf branch long stretched wall yard neighbor named jiang long neighbor named jiang giant gourd yard gourd became mature meng jiang agreed cut gourd two part however cut found adorable girl loved much discussion drew conclusion girl going nurtured meng named meng jiangnu meng jiangnu grew famous pretty versatile obedient apple two family eye one day meng jiangnu trying pull fan pool young man named fan xiliang passed saw came help get fan thanked looked closely handsome youth chatted favorably gradually fell love parent permission meng jiangnu married fan xiliang wedding night contingent troop broke house took fan xiliang away recruited laborer first emperor qin build great wall far away fan xiliang taken away meng jiangnu missed day night great sadness heavy heart october first snowed heavily outside stared candle big snowfall thought husband left without taking warm clothes defend cold wiped tear sadly meng jiangnu missed husband much dream dream saw husband standing great wall grabbing spear husband clothed ragged garment world ice snow fought enemy head cut enemy rolling great wall blood everywhere meng jiangnu woke screaming found nightmare strongly believed dream meant something bad therefore determined send clothes figure happened made winter clothes husband overnight packed luggage including husband winter clothes saying goodbye parent left great wall find husband though suffered lot determination help nice people finally reached great wall built unfortunately told husband died overwork body buried great wall hearing news shocked passed wind woke couldnt help bursting cry beat great wall hard called husband name cried cried censured first emperor qin dynasty tyranny accusation sharp wind blew furious billow rolled came towards great wall suddenly loud noise occurred one part great wall collapsed skeleton uncovered meng jiangnu stayed skeleton cried seven day burnt winter clothes made husband ash clothes flew upward wind circled three time finally covered skeleton steadily gradually legend meng jiangnu sending winter clothes evolved festival people call winter clothes day red bean rice hóngdòu fàn 红豆饭 traditional chinese dish eaten region china particularly common jiangsu province winter clothes day legend dafeng jiangsu say people eat bowl glutinous rice mixed red bean winter clothes day jiangsu commemorate shepherd boy revolted landlord said long time ago adorable shepherd boy born poor family parent could support made living shepherding landlord child one day carelessness tending sheep resulted sheep falling valley dying hearing news landlord extremely angry consequently beat scolded shepherd boy shepherd boy begged landlord stop beating shepherd boy believed brink death picked knife next killed landlord blood shepherd boy strained glutinous rice ground red coincidence day st october bouyei nationality live guizhou province china celebrate winter clothes day fighting battle pumpkin according legend purpose fighting battle pumpkin please ancestor scare ghost away protect earth october first chinese lunar calendar teenager bouyei nationality choose pumpkin garden thrust pumpkin sharp bamboo pole ceremony sending ancestor teenager burn bundle incense stick pumpkin leader village shout teenager run wild bamboo pole held hand gather together others village encounter teenager village pretend abuse fight pumpkin finally singing song go back village smilingly day october first chinese lunar calendar elder lead child grandchild add soil ancestor graf soil carried clothes rather basket soil added population family would october first patriarch leadership male carried food abundant tribute worship ancestor graf offer sacrifice ancestor ceremony whats important burn winter clothes made colorful paper including red yellow blue black purple paper popular belief china want deliver something dead must burn completely otherwise dead could receive belief linked story cai mo burnt paper winter clothes day day deliver winter clothes dead also day living prepare coming winter day woman take winter clothes made child husband ask try clothes men used clearing fireplace chimney make sure fireplace chimney keep house warm winter come story cai mo burnt paper also said burning winter clothes winter clothes day originated businessman promotion strategy according historical record paper invented man named cai lun eastern han dynasty – ad cai lun invented paper many people came paper factory purchase paper cai luns sisterinlaw named hui niang found papermaking profitable persuaded husband named cai mo learn papermaking form brother however husband patient set paper factory skilled making paper leading one came factory buy paper low quality hui niang tried help husband get away trouble suddenly idea occurred mind one night pretended ill died husband extremely sad guilty thought death partly resulted behavior blamed burnt paper made unexpectedly sound coming coffin appeared scared people mourning hall hui niangs voice said open coffin hurry come back people opened coffin hui ning jumped told people paper world becomes money nether world could come back without husband burning paper king hell originally planned torture luckily used money bribe ghost sent back earth husband took two pile paper burn parent hoping could make parent better life nether world witnessing function paper people mourning hall started buy paper cai mo paper factory burn story hui niang spread quickly therefore unmarketable paper cai mo paper factory sold within day day october first lunar calendar hui niang returned back hell people gradually offered sacrifice ancestor front graf burning paper 《中国家族文化》《孟姜女传》与寒衣的由来pp），author 凯祥， press： 百花洲文艺出版社， 《节气时令吃什么》，十月初一——寒衣 p），author：王明强，press：江苏科学技术出版社， 《中国传统节日趣闻与传说》，寒衣，pp author：严敬群，press：金盾出版社， 《图解民俗大全精编美绘版》，（关心先人的送寒衣， ppauthor：万虹， press：内蒙古文化， 《中国民间传说人物哭倒长城八百里孟姜女双色》，（孟姜女哭倒魏长城及送寒衣的来历 pp），author：强军宏，press：东北师大， 《中国节日传统文化读本（珍藏版）》，寒衣的习俗ppauthor严敬群 ，press东方出版社， 《最后的风景》，哀哀寒衣 ，pp），author：金光 ， press：大众文艺出版社， 《中华民俗常识一本通》，送寒衣，pauthor张建霞，press中国三峡出版社， 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