What flowers can I bring to the graves during Qingming Festival? What is the appropriate thing to bring to a grave?

What flowers can I bring to the graves during Qingming Festival? What is the appropriate thing to bring to a grave?
It is quite common to bring flowers to graves during the Qingming Festival. So, let’s take a look at what flowers can be brought to graves during the Qingming Festival? The second month of the lunar calendar has 29 days. It is the month of spring and full of hope. Shuimoxiansheng.com's special topic for the second month of the lunar calendar in 2021 will help you explore the auspicious and inauspicious days in the second month of the lunar calendar!

What flowers can I bring to the graves during Qingming Festival?

1. You can bring white flowers to visit graves during the Qingming Festival
According to traditional customs, white flowers are suitable for tomb sweeping. Flowers like gardenia or plain colors symbolize regret and remembrance.
2. You can bring chrysanthemums to visit graves during the Qingming Festival
Chrysanthemum is one of the most common flowers used in grave sacrifices. From the language of flowers, white chrysanthemum represents mourning, so it is also one of the more suitable flowers for sacrifices.
3. You can bring the flowers that the deceased loved during his/her lifetime when visiting the graves during the Qingming Festival
There is no need to stick to the specific flowers used for tomb sweeping. You can choose the type of flowers according to the age and preferences of the deceased. You can also choose forget-me-nots, yellow roses, red roses, bird of paradise and other flowers if the person has passed away is an elderly person in his or her seventies.

What is the appropriate thing to bring to the graves during the Qingming Festival?

1. Prepare the offerings
Visiting the graves is a way to pay tribute to ancestors, so naturally offerings are indispensable. People don’t have time on normal days, but during the Qingming Festival many people will go home early to prepare.
2. Prepare paper money
During festivals, we have to visit the graves of our ancestors. We cannot burn real money, but we must make sure that our ancestors have money to spend, which is how the custom of burning paper money came about.
3. Prepare incense and candles
Incense and candles are the most important and necessary items for tomb sweeping during the Qingming Festival. Not only should incense and candles be lit in front of the ancestors, but incense should also be offered to the mountain gods and land gods who look after the cemetery, praying that the mountain gods and land gods will protect the cemetery and bless the souls of the ancestors.
4. Prepare vegetarian wine
The process of tomb sweeping is equivalent to bringing food to celebrate the festival for the ancestors, so wine must be offered to the ancestors, and wine is a must for tomb sweeping.
5. Prepare tributes
It is recommended to buy five kinds of offerings: "apples, oranges, bananas, cakes, snacks, and biscuits".
6. Prepare your luggage
"Bag" refers to the food, clothing and daily necessities that tomb-sweepers bring to the deceased. It gets its name because it is a large bag made of white paper and is filled with paper money, gold and silver, as well as various paper "ingots", "clothes", "furniture" and so on.

What should we pay attention to when choosing offerings for Qingming Festival?

1. Do not eat any meat or other unhealthy foods.
2. It is better to offer sacrifices with vegetarian food, fruits, snacks, dried fruits, vegetarian wine and other foods.
3. You can offer the food that your ancestors liked when they were alive.

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