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Winter Clothes Day

🇨🇳 , China

About Winter Clothes Day

Winter Clothes Day, or Hanyi Festival, together with Tomb-sweeping Day and Hungry Ghost Festival, are the days for people to offer sacrifice to their ancestors in China. The Winter Clothes Day falls on the first day of the 10th month of the Chinese calendar. Shiyue first of the lunar calendar has come into winter, thus people feel cold, which makes them miss the dead. To protect their ancestors against the cold in the netherworld, people send clothes to them, which is why it is called the Winter Clothes Day. On Shiyue first, people in China (mostly in the North) burn clothes made of colorful p.

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