About the origin of going to the grave on the first day of October in the rural lunar calendar?

On the first day of October in the lunar calendar, it is called "October Dynasty", also known as ancestor worship festival. Since ancient times, our country has had the custom of paying homage to ancestors in the new harvest season to show filial piety and not forget our roots. The ancients also offered sacrifices to their ancestors Xiaomi on the first day of the tenth lunar month, and there were family sacrifices and tomb sacrifices on the first day of the tenth lunar month.

The first day of October in the lunar calendar is also the first day of winter. Since then, the weather has become colder and colder, and people are afraid that their ancestors' souls in the underworld are short of clothes and clothes. Therefore, in addition to food, incense sticks, paper money and other general offerings, there is also an indispensable offering-burial clothes. When offering sacrifices, people incinerate ghost clothes to their ancestors, which is called "sending cold clothes".

Therefore, the first day of October is also called "Paper Burning Festival". People put a lot of paper and dressing gowns in a paper bag, and write down the names of the recipients and senders and their corresponding names. This is called "baggage". The reality of "cold clothes".

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The first day of October in the lunar calendar is Hannong Festival, just like Tomb-Sweeping Day and Mid-Autumn Festival. People used to call it "October 1st". In the old society, women had to sew cold clothes by hand and give them to distant relatives. If relatives have passed away, they will make cold clothes out of paper on this day and burn them in front of the grave, so this day is called "Cold Farmers' Day". It is said that this festival comes from the legend that Meng Jiangnu traveled thousands of miles to find her husband.

The day before the first day of October in Jimo, parents led their children and grandchildren to add soil to their ancestral graves. You don't need a basket to add soil, you have to carry it with clothes. The more dirt you bring, the richer the people in the tribe will be.

On the day of the festival, the male surname in the family is led by the brigade commander, carrying boxes, rich tables and rich offerings (20 to 30 bowls) to pay homage to the graves one by one, which is called "going to the grave". Now it has been changed to "going to a small grave" with a small amount of sacrifices (usually jiaozi) from one family to another.

Nowadays, the custom of burning paper and cold clothes on the first day of October has faded. Many people, especially city people, just go to the grave to mourn or present a bunch of flowers in memory of their deceased relatives.

In the past, 1 October1day was also the off-duty day for long-term workers, so it was also called "temporary workers' day". On this day, the employer will hold a banquet to entertain the employees, settle their wages, and announce whether to continue to employ them and keep them as "winter workers" or "winter workers". By the first day of October, all the crops on the hillside had been harvested. Jimo, Laoshan, Pingdu, Jiaozhou, Jiaonan and Laixi all have the saying "Clear the slope on October 1st" and "Clear the field on October 1st".