There will be Qingming Festival in two or three days. Qingming Festival is a day for many people to return home to worship their ancestors, but it is very special for pregnant women, because there are many places where pregnant women can't go to the grave to worship their ancestors. Can pregnant women go to the grave on Qingming Festival? Let's get to know.
1、 Folk saying that pregnant women should not go to the grave to worship their ancestors
In the folk, there are many rules and regulations for ancestor worship, tomb sweeping and grave going. People dare not disobey these customs which have been handed down from ancient times to the present. They have to pay attention to them. After all, folk customs are like this. If they violate them, they are afraid of affecting their own fortune.
It has been a custom for thousands of years in China that pregnant women can't go to worship their ancestors. Therefore, generally speaking, pregnant women don't attend the activities of worshiping their ancestors in Tomb Sweeping Day, Double Ninth Festival and other festivals. According to the folk custom, pregnant women going to worship their ancestors will affect the fetus in their abdomen. As soon as the fetus is born, it is easy to see some unclean things, often entangled by dirty things, or cause the fetus to be weak and sick, entangled by ghosts and gods. Therefore, pregnant women should not go to worship their ancestors; In addition, the folk custom also believes that pregnant women should have the protection of the fetal God before they can have a healthy baby. The fetal God likes Yang Qi and avoids Yin Qi. The graveyard and ancestral grave are places with deep Yin Qi. If pregnant women come here in person, they are afraid that the Yin Qi of the grave will affect the fetal God, which will lead to miscarriage and fetal insecurity. Therefore, there have been pregnant women all the time It's not suitable to go to the grave to worship ancestors.
2、 Pregnant women should not go to the grave to worship their ancestors
From a scientific point of view, during the Qingming Festival, every household prepares a lot of offerings in advance to pay homage to their ancestors, so the Qingming Festival is a time when there are a lot of people.
Most of the ancestral graves are located on some high mountains, which are rugged and difficult to walk, and pregnant women are pregnant. If they go to worship their ancestors in this way, the pregnant women's bodies will be easily damaged by the crowded people, and the rugged mountain roads will be difficult to walk, which will lead to the poor pregnant women's excessive fatigue and fatigue, which will lead to the risk of abortion. It can be seen that pregnant women are not suitable to participate in ancestor worship activities, It's not unreasonable. In addition, when going to the grave to offer sacrifices to ancestors, they need to burn paper money and set off firecrackers. These actions will cause the pregnant women to be frightened and the fetus in the abdomen. Another reason is the weather. It's rainy during the Qingming Festival. It's rainy during the Qingming Festival. Traveling at this time is not conducive to the safety of pregnant women. All of the above shows that pregnant women should not go to the grave to worship their ancestors!