As the Qingming Festival is coming in 2019, I believe many families will go to visit their ancestors' graves. What's the point of Tomb Sweeping Day? What's the meaning of Tomb Sweeping Day!
What's the point of Tomb Sweeping Day in 2019
In terms of time, there is a local saying of "the first three and the last four.". That is to say, it is OK to bury graves from the first three days to the last four days of Qingming Festival. In fact, this is not true. It is an excuse made by busy people.
It is said that there will be a meeting in the underworld on Tomb Sweeping Day, and people without descendants can't attend. People attending the meeting must carry flags sent by their descendants before they can enter. Therefore, at Tomb Sweeping Day, people put paper scissors on the graves of their deceased ancestors. Therefore, Tomb Sweeping Day should be before Tomb Sweeping Day, not after Tomb Sweeping Day.
Is Tomb Sweeping day ok
sure. But it should be earlier, usually before 8 a.m. Otherwise, it's meaningless.
There is another way of saying that people go to the grave the day before Tomb Sweeping Day. This day is called "Han's Day".
It is said that in the past, an emperor mistakenly killed his generals Han Shizhong and Liang Hongyu. Feeling deeply guilty, he asked a famous Taoist priest to do so, so that all the things offered to his ancestors by people who went to the grave on the day before Qingming Festival would be transferred to Han's name. So going to the grave the day before Qingming Festival is not for your ancestors to receive what you offer.
Tomb Sweeping Day is a good way to show filial piety. I seldom go to the graves of my ancestors at ordinary times. It's really a good thing to take a look on Tomb Sweeping Day and add some soil to the graves to make up for loopholes or collapses. But don't move when you go to the grave on the Qingming Festival. You can't throw away the stones that look irregular and turn them into beautiful and neat ones. The general principle is' don't move, just add and don't subtract '. That is, don't move the ancestral tombs easily. Only increase the soil and stones, and don't reduce them. The unsightly and irregular stones can be wrapped with another layer. Another point is that it is not a good thing to build a splendid ancestral tomb. Many prosperous families have fallen as a result.
The significance of Tomb Sweeping on Tomb Sweeping Day
Tomb Sweeping during the Qingming Festival is called "respect for time" to ancestors. Its custom has a long history. The Ming Dynasty's "a brief introduction to the scenery of the imperial capital" states: "in March, the Qing Dynasty and tomorrow, a man worships his ancestors at the Qingming Festival, carries a statue, and hangs a Chu ingot behind the sedan chair and horse, so that the road is full of charm. Worshipers, sprinkling, weeping, weeping, weeding and adding soil to the tombs, burned the Broussonetia papyrifera for several times, and used paper money to set up the tombs. If there is no paper money in the hope, it will be a lonely grave. Cry, do not return also, trend Fang tree, choose garden, row sit drunk. In fact, tomb sweeping began before the Qin Dynasty, but it wasn't necessarily during the Qingming Festival. Tomb sweeping was after the Qin Dynasty. It didn't become popular until the Tang Dynasty.
The tomb sweeping ceremony should have been held in person, but due to the different economic conditions and other conditions of each family, the way of sweeping is different. "Shaobaobi" is the main form of ancestor worship. The so-called 'package', also known as' package ', refers to the parcel sent by filial piety from the world of yang to the world of hell. In the past, nanzhidian sold the so-called "wrapper", that is, a large bag of white paper. There are two forms: one is to use a woodcut version to print the Sanskrit transliteration of the curse of the dead in the surrounding area, and a rosette tablet in the middle to write the area code of the deceased. For example, the words "the late Zhang Fu Jun taboo the old man of Yunshan" are both postal parcels and tablets. The other is plain wrappers, which do not print any patterns. Only a blue label is pasted in the middle, and the name of the deceased is taboo. Also used as the main card. There are many kinds of money in the burden.