The Qingming Festival is also known as the Outing Festival, Xingqing Festival, March Festival, Ancestor Worship Festival, etc. Tomb-sweeping Day is a festival to commemorate ancestors, among which tomb-sweeping is a routine activity of Qingming Festival. Next, the editor will give you a brief introduction to the attention to sweeping graves on Qingming Festival?
Sweeping Tombs on Qingming Festival
The custom of sweeping tombs on Qingming Festival began in the Qin Dynasty. It originated from the spring sacrifice activities in ancient times, which changed from spring sacrifice to ancestor sacrifice. an activity that takes place. The following is the emphasis on tomb-sweeping on Qingming Festival:
1. The sayings and customs of tomb-sweeping in different places on Qingming Festival are different. Tomb-sweeping in the area of Lishui, Zhejiang Province is called “the first three and the last four” within the range of the first three days and the last four days of the Qingming Festival. Other places are wider, called “the first seven and the second eight”, that is to say, it is possible to go to the grave from the first three days to the last four days of the Qingming Festival.
2. Women should not go to the grave when they are sick, pregnant, or confinement, so as to avoid discomfort caused by the long road. Going to the grave is a very sad period, too much sadness will Injuring the body, except during this period, you can go to the grave at other times. However, different regions have different customs. If there are such customs in the local area, you can follow them.
3. Tomb-sweeping Day is one of the traditional Chinese ghost festivals. It is more suitable to go to the grave in the morning. The sun in the morning is relatively mild, and the morning is also full of yang energy. At this time, when you go to the grave at this time, you will not encounter some dirty things, nor will you provoke some unclean things to go home.
4. Qingming Festival is a festival about sacrifices. In addition to offering sacrifices to ancestors, Qingming Festival will also go to the tombs of ancestors to do some cleaning and tidying up. When the graves of the ancestors are worn out, the filial younger generation will add some new soil to the graves, just like putting on new clothes for the ancestors. Therefore, the tombs are cleaned every year.
5. In some areas, new tombs must be built within three years after the completion of the tombs: descendants need wine and food, three animals and five fruits to worship, and the first year the tomb is opened one day before Qingming. The second day is on Qingming day, and the third year is on the day after Qingming. After that, every time around the Qingming Festival, he led his descendants to bring fruit tomb papers to sweep the tombs.
6. The cemetery is the dwelling place of the ghosts, so it is not allowed to step over the tomb and offerings, make loud noises, laugh and curse, speak foul language, run around and touch, etc. Do not only disrespect your ancestors, but also constitute a nuisance to nearby spirits. Not to mention trampling on other tombs or criticizing the design of the tombs, which will be regarded as blasphemy.
Suggestion: During the Qingming Festival tomb sweeping, everyone should strengthen their awareness of fire prevention. Start from me and jointly prevent forest fires. Consciously abide by the relevant rules and regulations of the cemetery management department and fire prevention management regulations, do not set off fireworks or firecrackers in the cemetery or use fire in the wild, burn paper money and incense candles in designated areas, and do not litter cigarette butts. And civilized sacrifice sweeping, try to use flowers, plastic flowers and other sacrifices to pay homage to deceased relatives. Enhance environmental awareness, incinerate all kinds of sacrifices within the specified limits, do not litter the food and packaging for sacrifices, clean them up in time, and put them in designated garbage collection points.