Qingming Festival is a traditional sacrificial Festival, so it's inevitable to go to the grave before and after the Qingming Festival. How many fruits should be put in the grave? What kind of fruit is better in the tomb? Generally speaking, the seasonal fruit is the best, but there are also some fruits that can't be brought.
How many fruits are there in Shangfen
The fruit used for going to the grave usually needs to be placed in an odd number, and three or five are the most common numbers. However, there are no very strict regulations on the tribute to the grave, so we generally need to refer to the local customs.
As a matter of fact, the ancestors can't eat the sacrificial offerings, but they still have to be carefully selected. This is to express the respect and memory of the ancestors. As long as there is a sincere filial piety, that is, the use of relatively simple offerings is still very satisfactory.
When it comes to tomb sweeping time on Tomb Sweeping Day, some people say 'early Tomb Sweeping Day, late 11', others say, 'first seven, then eight', and others say that they don't go to the grave on the day before Tomb Sweeping Day. Some places go to the grave on Qingming Day, because the married women will come back to their parents to go to the grave on Qingming Day. Her brother is going to entertain her. The meaning of "early Qingming, late 11" is that before 12 o'clock, the tomb goes to the tomb for a meal; after noon, the tomb goes to the tomb for a meal. It is also said that Tomb Sweeping Day, generally before the Tomb Sweeping Day, or in the Tomb Sweeping Day burning paper. It is said that at that time, there were two hundred pieces of paper. Tomb Sweeping Day should be earlier, usually before ten o'clock in the morning.
What kind of fruit is taboo on Tomb Sweeping Day
As a matter of fact, there is no special requirement for the fruits used for Tomb Sweeping Day. As long as they are seasonal fruits from all over the country, they are OK.
1. Don't take pears to the grave. Because the pear is homophonic with Li, the ancients believed that Li means separation. If you sweep the tomb with a pear, it means separation from your ancestors, which is a taboo.
2. Grapes. Grapes are all in clusters. If you bring grapes to the grave, you will die in clusters and follow your ancestors. That's also a very bad omen.
3. Longan. Longan is usually a bunch, its moral is the same as grapes, dead in a bunch with the ancestors, it is also very unlucky.
4. Melon. Because the inside of the melon is hollow, if you go to the grave like this, it means that you have no heart, so it means that you are disrespectful to your ancestors.
5. Pu Tao. Pu Tao is also hollow, its moral is the same as cantaloupe, also means no intention.
6. Passion fruit. There are many seeds in passion fruit, which means unclean, and the omen is not good.
7. Barbara. Guava generally has many seeds in it, which is also a kind of unclean fruit.
Can you eat the fruit of Shangming tomb
After Tomb Sweeping Day, you can take your own fruit back to eat, but you'd better not take other people's fruit.
You can eat the fruit of Tomb Sweeping day after the sacrifice! Don't eat it before and during the sacrifice, or the elders will say it. If you don't have any problem with eating fruit, don't be afraid of it.
When sweeping tombs, people bring wine, fruits, paper money and other items to the graveyard, offer food to their relatives' graves, burn the paper money, cultivate new soil for the graves, repair the graves, fold a few green new branches and insert them on the graves, and press some paper money on them for others to see. When they know that there are still descendants in this grave, they kowtow and worship.