First, send warm clothes to protect our ancestors from the cold. The first day of October is the first day of winter. The weather is getting cold, and people are preparing cotton-padded clothes for the winter. Thinking that the ancestors in the underground also need to keep out the cold, they fold the paper into clothes and let them wear them after melting, which is called "sending cold clothes"
Sending cold clothes is very particular:
Cold clothes are best folded by yourself. When it melts, you must tell your ancestors so as not to fall into their hands. All burnt clothes, money, etc. , must be completely incinerated, Huasong paper ash. According to legend, only when it is completely burned will it become paper ash, and these banknotes and clothes can be used in the underworld. It's no use for the dead to hold it if it's not finished. If you can't go home to sweep the grave, at the crossroads, you can burn paper money in the direction of your hometown to send warm clothes to your relatives, and at the same time burn some five-color paper to send away the ghosts who pay homage, so as not to get ahead of others. Second, going to the grave, the necessary offerings to express grief: incense, fruit, snacks, vegetables, wine, paper money, yellow paper, five-color paper, bags, etc. The best time to go to the grave: go to the grave to worship the ancestors, preferably at 9: 00 am-13 noon, when the sun is in full swing. Taboo: don't go to the cemetery after dark; Don't play games in the cemetery; Don't say disrespectful things in the cemetery. Third, burial together, so that the deceased ancestors can reunite and live together, was once an ancient oath to love and marriage. This shows that the ancients regarded the same point as a symbol of life and death.
Folklore has always attached great importance to joint burial. Even those who were lonely before their death, their relatives should try their best to form a "ghost relationship" for them, so that they will not be lonely after their death.
After the husband and wife died successively, if the cemetery could not be buried together because the direction of the mountain was not open at that time, it was necessary to wait until 10/month 1 day after the direction of the mountain was opened.
Fourth, move the grave to seek a better resting place for our ancestors. For some reason, if it is necessary to move the grave, it can only be done in Tomb-Sweeping Day on October 1st. For example, the feng shui of the original cemetery is not good and needs to be improved, or the cemetery is occupied and forcibly moved at will, which should be carried out on the first day of October.
Five, summer rainy season grave repair, spring and summer irrigation, animal digging holes, etc. All these are easy to cause the graves to be flooded and collapsed, disturbing the peace under the ancestors. In this case, it is necessary to repair the grave. But graves can't be built at ordinary times, only in Tomb-Sweeping Day and October 1st every year.
Therefore, on October 1st, many people will pull up weeds, clean up trees and repair cemeteries to ensure that our ancestors will not suffer from wind and rain underground.