In daily life, there are many important festivals. In order to commemorate the filial piety of jieziti, people eat cold food one after another, forming a cold food festival. Can I visit the tomb on cold food festival? Can I go to the grave on cold food festival? What kind of tribute is better for the cold food festival?
Which day is cold food festival 2018?
The 2018 cold food festival is Wednesday, April 4. February 19 in the lunar calendar.
Can I visit the tomb on cold food festival? Sure.
The main connotation of the cold food festival is tomb sweeping, while the Qingming Festival is entertainment. The atmosphere of the two festivals is quite different.
Cold food, that is, cold food festival, also known as "no smoking Festival", "cold Festival", "hundred and five Festivals". One or two days before the Qingming Festival. On this day, no fireworks, only cold food, so it is called "cold food festival". In the development of later generations, customs such as memorial service, outing, swing, Cuju, lead hook, and egg fighting were gradually added. Cold food festival lasted for more than two thousand years, once known as the first day of sacrifice.
What kind of offerings do you take with you? When going to the grave, the offerings prepared for ancestor worship are generally singular, three or five; each of them is also singular, three or five. Tribute should respect religious, national and regional customs. There are no fixed rules. Please refer to the following:
1. Do not use any meat and other meaty things.
2. It's better to offer sacrifices to vegetarians, fruits, snacks, dried fruits, vegetable wine and other foods.
3. You can use the food that your ancestors preferred when they were alive.
In fact, the sacrificial offerings to ancestors are not edible, but they still need to be carefully selected, which is to express the reverence for ancestors. As long as there is a sincere filial piety, the use of relatively simple offerings is still very satisfactory. Second, prepare flowers (now all pay attention to environmental protection) instead of burning paper.
In ancient times, there were many regulations on the sacrifice of the deceased, which are still continuing: during the period of filial piety, you can't wear red clothes, and within three years, you can't paste red couplets for the new year. The rest of the rules have changed: to marry, for example, the deceased can marry in a hundred days. Dai Xiao, after burial, can take down the filial piety cloth. Haircuts, baths, etc. can be done after burning seven.
The core of traditional customs for the dead is to educate future generations and establish a good social atmosphere of "respect, love and respect for the old" through the silent education. As long as we can internalize in the heart and externalize in the line, we have reached the core requirements of traditional customs.