Is it okay to go back to my parents’ home during the Qingming Festival? Who is not suitable to visit graves during the Qingming Festival?

Is it okay to go back to my parents’ home during the Qingming Festival? Who is not suitable to visit graves during the Qingming Festival?
Speaking of Qingming Festival, I believe everyone is familiar with it. So, let’s take a look at whether it is okay to go back to your mother’s home during the Qingming Festival? As the Xin Chou Year enters its second month, spring is here and everyone's fortunes are changing. To check the special content of the second month of the lunar calendar in 2021, the Year of the Ox, please click to enter the website of Mr. Shui Mo.

Is it okay to go back to my parents’ home during the Qingming Festival?

According to feudal and superstitious traditional customs, a married daughter is not allowed to return to her parents' home during the Qingming Festival.
The main reason for this is that the custom of "not returning to one's parents' home during the Qingming Festival" is to some extent influenced by traditional patriarchal thinking, which holds that daughters are not family members and that "a married daughter is like spilled water." Influenced by the old concept of "male superiority and female inferiority", daughters cannot return to their parents' home during the Qingming Festival, nor can they worship their ancestors at their parents' home.
But in fact, with the development of the times, this kind of thinking is gradually being abandoned. Especially now that there are more and more families with only one child, it is quite common to have only one daughter in the family.
Therefore, it is quite common to go back to one's parents' home during the Qingming Festival. However, whether you can go back to your parents' home during the Qingming Festival depends on whether you make a correct judgment based on your local customs.

Who is not suitable to visit graves during the Qingming Festival?

People who are not suitable for tomb sweeping: Pregnant women. From the perspective of folk customs, it is not appropriate for unborn children to see these dead people, because it can easily cause the child to die. If a pregnant woman must go, she has to wrap her belly with red cloth. But I still strongly recommend not to go.
People who are not suitable for tomb sweeping: People who have undergone surgery
According to folklore, if a person who has just undergone surgery goes to a cemetery, he or she will easily be taken away. Surgery damages your vital energy. When your vital energy is weak, it is particularly easy for evil spirits to invade. For the sake of your own health and family harmony, it is better for people who have just had surgery not to visit the graves.
People who are not suitable for tomb sweeping: Children under three years old
Children under 3 years old are difficult to bring along due to the various conditions at the tomb-sweeping site. Going to a relatively polluted area can also easily make children sick, so it is not recommended to bring them along.
People who are not suitable for tomb sweeping: Seriously ill patients are not suitable
What seriously ill patients need is recuperation and rest. They should not overwork. They have low immunity, yin deficiency in the body, and a restless mind, making them susceptible to various evil spirits. Therefore, it is not recommended.

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