&# 8203;&# 8203;&# 8203; The Tomb Sweeping Day in 2019 is the first day of March in the lunar calendar on April 5. The Tomb Sweeping Day is a traditional Chinese festival with the custom of offering sacrifices to ancestors and going to graves. Do you know what's important about tomb sweeping during the Qingming Festival? As Chinese people, we should follow our traditions, so Tomb Sweeping Day should follow our traditional customs. This article brings you the stress of going to the grave on Qingming Festival. Let's have a look.
What is particular about going to the grave on Qingming Festival?
In terms of time, the saying "the first three and the last four" is circulating in our local area. In other words, graves are allowed from the first three days to the next four days of Qingming Festival. In fact, this statement is wrong. This is an excuse made by people who are busy with their work.
It is said that there will be a meeting in the underworld on the Qingming Festival, and people without descendants cannot participate. Those who attend the conference must hold the flag sent by their children and grandchildren to enter. Therefore, at the Tomb Sweeping Day, people put paper cut flags on the graves of their late ancestors. Therefore, the time of going to the grave on Qingming Festival should be before Qingming Festival, not after Qingming Festival.
Can I go to the grave on Qingming Day? sure. But it should be earlier, usually before 8 o'clock in the morning. Otherwise it will lose its meaning.
There is another saying about going to the grave the day before Qingming Festival. This day is called 'Han's Day'.
It is said that in the past, an emperor wrongly killed his generals Han Shizhong and Liang Hongyu. Feeling deeply guilty, he invited famous Taoists to do so, so that all the things offered by people who went to the grave on the day before the Qingming Festival to their ancestors could be transferred to Han's name. So go to the grave the day before Qingming. For your ancestors, he can't receive what you offer.
Tomb Sweeping Day is a good form of honoring ancestors and reflecting filial piety. Usually, I seldom go to my ancestors' graves. It's really a good thing to take a look at the Tomb Sweeping Day and add some soil on the graves to make up for loopholes or collapses. But don't move at Tomb Sweeping Day. You can't throw away those stones that look untidy and stagger and replace them with beautiful and neat stones. The general principle is' don't move, just add and don't reduce '. That is, don't move the ancestral tombs easily. The soil and stones only increase, not decrease. Unsightly and untidy stones can be covered with another layer. Another point is that it is not a good thing to build a magnificent ancestral grave. Many prosperous families fell down as a result.