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What are the best offerings for Tomb Sweeping on Tomb Sweeping Day? List of tribute to the grave

People who go out before and after the tomb sweeping day will travel thousands of miles to their hometown to offer sacrifices to their ancestors. When it comes to offering sacrifices to their ancestors, they have to bring a lot of tributes. Besides burning paper, they need to bring a lot of tributes when they go to the tomb sweeping day. So what kind of tributes are better?

What kind of fruits should we bring to the tomb on Tomb Sweeping Day: since the tomb can control our five dynasties, we'd better take five kinds of fruits. It's really inconvenient. Just take one. Don't be lazy.

Prepare pastry: Fruit represents Yin, pastry represents Yang. For ancestor worship, fruits and cakes are usually prepared. It is only a local custom to offer meat to ancestors. In the past, sacrificing heaven and earth required three animals and five animals, which was more sacred. Our ancestors didn't achieve the merits of heaven and earth, and they didn't have such great blessings as heaven and earth. Therefore, it's disrespectful to our ancestors to offer meat and blood.

Prepare incense: incense is like the signal we dial out with our mobile phone. As soon as incense is lit, the ancestors know that it is the descendants who come to sacrifice.

Prepare a candle: it's better to light a candle. The candle is called a lamp. This is Yang, which can let the descendants go any way without deviation and going to the underworld. This is called Mingdao. If the ancestor died within three years, use white candles; more than three years, use red candles.

Prepare paper money: what kind of paper to burn. This is very orthodox. Such as Ming coin and tianditong bank are all done by swindlers. Just like counterfeit banknotes, they burn this kind of money in cemeteries and pollute their ancestors. Think about it. How angry are you if you take the fake money? It's not a blessing, it's a disaster. Including burning mobile phones, telephones, cars and buildings, these are all businesses' money collecting activities, which are useless. We should not be fooled and think that burning these things is filial piety.

Qingming festival offerings and the number of Qingming festival offerings are generally singular, three or five, common is to put fruit, vegetarian, wine.

There are different customs in each place, and there are no fixed rules. It is suggested that we do not use any meat and other fishy things, but sacrifice vegetarian food, fruits, snacks, dried fruits, wine and other kinds of food.

We can use the food that our ancestors liked when they were alive to offer sacrifices. We can't eat the sacrificial offerings, but we still have to choose them carefully. This is to express our respect for our ancestors. As long as we have a sincere filial piety, that is to say, we can use relatively simple tributes, and then we can prepare flowers.

When you get up in the morning and arrive at the site of tomb sweeping, try to eat vegetarian food, dress neatly and strictly, so as to show politeness and respect to the ancestors.

2. When burning paper money and placing offerings, we should pay attention to fire prevention and ensure safety. We should try our best to carry the items by ourselves and avoid buying hawkers selling utensils near sacrificial sites. If you have to buy it because it's inconvenient to carry, you should prepare a small amount of cash in advance, put a small amount of cash in the convenient coat pocket, and put a large amount of cash in the inner side to avoid being picked up by thieves.

3. Try to avoid weekends or other rush hours for tomb sweeping. Because of the increase of private cars and rush hours for tomb sweeping, traffic congestion will bring trouble to travel. You can choose to take all kinds of public transport, or lengthen the time for tomb sweeping (leaving early and returning late) or stagger the key periods, so as to relieve the pressure of road traffic caused by more people and cars.

4. Whether you arrive at the place of sacrifice or leave, you should form a good habit of counting your belongings, so as to avoid the accidental loss of valuables. Collective sacrifice should count the number of people at any time, especially the parents with children should take good care of their children, so as to avoid the loss of children due to play.

5. Don't go to places that are too remote and sparsely populated. It's better to form a plan according to the usual route. Don't stay in remote places for a long time to ensure your own safety.

6. The cemetery is a place where the spirits live in peace. Don't laugh, scold, slander, run and fight, and urinate everywhere. When you meet other graves, don't trample on the tombstone with your feet. Don't disturb other tombstone sacrificial objects. No doubt, when you encounter them, you should sincerely recite 'sorry to disturb'. The cemetery should be respectful and respectful, and control your mood and attitude, so as not to disturb and offend other spirits.

7. Clearing the cemetery

In the face of the ancestors' graveyard, we need to clean up the weeds, add loose soil, and tidy the surrounding environment, so as to make the appearance of the graveyard full and clean. At the same time, we should pray silently in our heart, place our hope under the spring, and pray for the ancestors to keep the future generations rich and prosperous.

8. Generally speaking, pregnant women should avoid tomb sweeping activities, not only that. Strictly speaking, it's better for women not to participate in such activities when they come to their regular holidays, especially after 3 p.m.