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Is Tomb Sweeping Day ghost's day? What do we do on Tomb Sweeping Day

For many people in China, April is a traditional holiday, because it is not Qingming Festival. Many people say that Tomb Sweeping Day is ghost's day. Is it true? What do we need to do on Tomb Sweeping Day? Let's learn about Tomb Sweeping Day with Xiaobian!

Tomb Sweeping Day is ghost day

Qingming Festival

In our country, people of the older generation like to call Tomb Sweeping Day Ghost Festival, because Tomb Sweeping Day is the day of ancestor worship. We need to raise new soil to the grave, add graves, and take care of the flowers and plants beside the grave to make it clean and tidy. Tomb going on Tomb Sweeping day shows that Tomb Sweeping Day is also the time for ghosts to haunt, and it is the day when the gate of the underworld is opened. However, different from the Zhongyuan Festival, Tomb Sweeping Day sacrifices the dead to their ancestors and relatives, while Zhongyuan festival mainly sacrifices ghosts, so the nature of the two is still different.

What does Qingming Festival mainly do

What does qingming festival do

Qingming Festival is an important sacrificial festival in China. Its main activities are sacrificing ancestors and remembering them. One of the most important is tomb sweeping, which is to go to the grave to clean up the environment, and then worship the God of land, worship the ancestors, and burn the related sacrifices to the underworld, mainly some paper flowers, paper money and Ming coins, which are not burned.

In addition to tomb sweeping, Qingming Festival also has the custom of outing, that is, going out for spring outing, flying kites, playing swings, etc. because Qingming Festival is a national legal holiday, people can go to further places for outing after the holiday.

Can I go out in the evening of Qingming Festival

On the night of Qingming Festival, the ghost door is open. You can go out, but try not to go out. Because the Yin Qi is too heavy, it's easy to provoke some bad things. You may say it's superstition, but you'd rather believe it or not, so it's OK to listen to it. Moreover, the Qingming Festival is just after winter, and the temperature difference between day and night in the north is still very large, so the cold air is heavy at night, and it is easy to feel cold when going out, which is not conducive to the balance of yin and Yang of the body.