What are the characteristics and customs of your hometown on the first frost day?

The first frost, vernal equinox, slight summer heat and cold dew are collectively called four stands, and "stand" means creation and beginning. The first frost, as one of the key festivals of the "Four Stands", is one of the connecting points in the season that China folk customs attach great importance to, and it is also a season of enjoying a bumper harvest and being frivolous. According to the rest in winter, I hope that next year will be prosperous and auspicious. The first frost is not only the first season in winter, but also an important traditional festival celebrated in many places in China.

Pay tribute to the dead at their graves.

In ancient times, people went to sweep graves during the first frost. According to "Qing thomas lee", "On New Year's Day, the cold food and the first frost festival, people offered sacrifices to sweep and expand the village, and the tombs of Yi people were presented in plain clothes, with tools for writing with wine and cutting vegetation with diamonds; Zhou Fu sealed the tree and cut off Cao Jing, so he called it sweeping the grave. " Nowadays, the custom of sweeping graves in the first frost is rare. However, the "Cold Clothes Festival" on 10/day in the first frost season is still popular among the people.

Hanyi Festival, also known as "October Dynasty", "Ancestor Festival", "Ghost Festival" and "Ghost Festival", is called the three "Ghost Festival" together with Tomb-Sweeping Day and Zhongyuan Festival. In order to prevent our ancestors from catching cold in the underworld, people will burn five-color paper (red, yellow, blue, white and black) with cotton outside the door on the night of the Cold Clothes Festival, and turn jiaozi into a gray circle to show that it is cold and send warm clothes to our ancestors. The Cold Clothes Festival is a day for people to remember and sympathize with their old friends, and it is also a day for relatives to send warm clothes to people they care about.