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Who is not suitable for Tomb Sweeping? Can pregnant women go to the grave on Qingming Festival?

Tomb sweeping is the earliest custom of Qingming Festival, which has been simplified with the progress of society. It's going to qingming festival soon. Do you know who is not suitable for Tomb Sweeping? It seems that pregnant women and children can't go to tomb sweeping on Qingming Festival. There are many taboos.

Who is not suitable for Tomb Sweeping on Qingming Festival

It's not right for someone who's just had an operation

Weakness is the main factor. According to folklore, people who have just had an operation can easily be pulled away if they go to the cemetery. Surgery hurts vitality. When vitality is weak, evil spirits are easy to invade. For the sake of their own health and family and beauty, people who have just had surgery should not go to the tomb.

Not suitable for seriously ill patients

This tomb sweeping is not an exercise. Most of the tombs are far away from the place where they live. Most of the tombs still have a long way to go. Patients with serious diseases need to be recuperated, not overworked, with low immunity, weak body, floating mind and spirit, and prone to various evils. Therefore, it is not recommended.

It's not suitable for people with dark printing hall or blue and black eye socket

People with dark printing hall and blue and black eyes are in a very unlucky period. Tomb sweeping is to worship ancestors. Most of the tomb rules will not be a very independent place, but will go through many other tombs. It's not suitable to go through the place where the bad luck is gathering.

Not suitable for pregnant women

Not to mention the heavy traffic, rugged mountain roads, the impact of various kinds of ash in sacrificial places, and the habit of setting off firecrackers in many places, which will affect the health of pregnant women or their children. From the perspective of folklore, unborn children are not suitable to meet these dead people, because it is easy to cause children to die. If pregnant women have to go, they have to pack their stomachs with red cloth. However, it is strongly recommended not to go.

Not suitable for children under three

There is a saying that children under the age of 7 are not suitable, but in fact, from the point of view of life principle, 3-year-old children are more unsuitable, because no matter from China's religion or foreign previous life theory, it is mentioned that children under the age of 3 are most likely to see another world. From a scientific point of view, children under the age of 3 are easy to carry because of various conditions at the site of tomb sweeping. When they go out to a relatively polluted place, they are also easy to make their children sick. That is to say, it's not recommended to take them, let alone the breastfeeding mothers.

What should and should not be done on Qingming Festival

1. We can't choose Qingming Festival to talk about marriage, let alone choose Qingming Festival to get married.

2. If the birthday is Qingming Festival, pay attention to avoid the yellow flowers. If the local custom is delayed, it will be done in advance and should be followed.

3. Don't visit others on Qingming Day.

4. If you don't have time to worship your ancestors on the Qingming Festival, don't make a random promise, or you won't get what you want.

5. There is a saying and custom of cold food in some places before, during and after the Qingming Festival. It is better to abide by this custom.

6. Generally, a married daughter cannot go back to her mother's house to visit her grave. But in some areas, this is not taboo. According to local customs, it is not wrong.

The origin of tomb sweeping in the Qing Dynasty

There is an important relationship between the custom of sacrifice and tomb sweeping and the evolution of funeral customs. According to the records, in ancient times, there was no way to carry out tomb sweeping and sacrifice, and there was no relevant record. Later 'tomb and grave', that is to say, after burial, a grave was built to support the custom of ancestor worship and tomb sweeping. In the Qin and Han Dynasties, tomb sweeping and ancestor worship had become an indispensable ritual activity.

Qingming Festival is a festival commemorating ancestors. The main memorial ceremony is tomb sweeping. Tomb sweeping is the concrete expression of being cautious and pursuing the distant, loving and filial. Based on the above significance, Qingming Festival has become an important festival for Chinese people.

Qingming Festival is at the turn of mid spring and late spring, 106 days after the winter solstice. Tomb Sweeping activities usually take place 10 days before or after the Qingming Festival. In some areas, tomb sweeping activities take up to a month.

There are many ways to commemorate ancestors in Qingming Festival: Tomb sweeping is the earliest custom of Qingming Festival, which has been simplified gradually with the progress of society. On the day of tomb sweeping, the descendants first trimmed and cleaned the graves of their ancestors and the weeds around them, and then provided food and flowers. As cremation of remains becomes more and more common, the result is that the way of worshiping ancestors to the ashes place gradually replaces the custom of tomb sweeping.

Regardless of the form of commemoration, the most basic ceremony of Qingming Festival is to remember the ancestors in front of the tomb, the place where the ashes are placed or in front of the shrine. In order to make the ceremony of commemorating ancestors more meaningful, we should let the family members of the younger generation know the history of their ancestors' struggle in the past.