Can’t we visit the graves and pay homage to our ancestors on the Cold Food Festival in 2020? How many days are left until the Cold Food Festival?

Can’t we visit the graves and pay homage to our ancestors on the Cold Food Festival in 2020? How many days are left until the Cold Food Festival?
Introduction: Visiting graves to pay homage to ancestors is also an important matter, so you need to choose an auspicious day in advance. So can’t we visit graves to pay homage to ancestors on the Cold Food Festival in 2020? How many days are left until the Cold Food Festival? Mr. Shui Mo website has carefully compiled detailed information about the third month of the lunar calendar in 2020. Mr. Shui Mo website will also list the festivals and solar terms for you in the third month of the lunar calendar in 2020!

Can’t we visit the graves and pay homage to our ancestors on the Cold Food Festival in 2020?

Lunar calendar: March 11, 2020 Gregorian calendar: April 3, 2020, Friday, Aries [Today's old almanac is suitable] Accepting marriage proposals, marrying a son-in-law, removing mourning clothes, offering sacrifices, moving, building, building a house, breaking ground, erecting pillars, accepting wealth, seeking offspring, resigning from office, planting, catching, and going to school [Today's old almanac is unsuitable] Setting up beds, felling trees, raising beams, accepting livestock, marrying, returning home, traveling, fasting and offering sacrifices to pray for blessings, entering the house, drilling, repairing graves, burying, breaking ground, and opening the market
From the above almanac content, we can know that today’s day of sacrifice [i.e. visiting graves to worship ancestors] is suitable in the almanac, so you can visit graves to worship ancestors on the Cold Food Festival in 2020!

How many days left until Cold Food Festival?

By checking the old almanac, we can see that there are 25 days left until the Cold Food Festival in 2020.
Lunar calendar 2020 Cold Food Festival dates:
Friday , April 3, 2020 (March 11, Gengzi Year (Year of the Rat), 25 days away from the Cold Food Festival in the 2020 lunar calendar)
Cold Food foods include Cold Food porridge, Cold Food noodles, Cold Food juice, green rice and sugar; Cold Food offerings include noodle swallows, snake-coated rabbit, jujube cakes, fine barley, and god rice cakes; beverages include spring wine, new tea, clear spring water and dozens of other kinds.
Most of them have profound meanings. For example, offering snakes coiled around rabbits as sacrifices means that there is a saying that "snakes coiled around rabbits will surely bring wealth", which means hoping for the people to be rich and the country to be strong; Zitui Yan is taken from the Jiexiu dialect "Nian Nian", which means not to forget Jietui's noble character... Customs of Cold Food Festival: Ancestor Worship
Tomb sweeping and ancestor worship on Cold Food Festival was considered a "wild sacrifice" from the Southern and Northern Dynasties to the Tang Dynasty.
In the Tang Dynasty, it was included in "Kaiyuan Ritual" "Volume 87: Worship and Sweeping for Kings and Dukes and Below (Attached to the Worship and Sweeping for Cold Food Festival)" and became one of the auspicious ceremonies officially recognized and advocated. Later it evolved into the royal family offering sacrifices to the tombs; government officials offering sacrifices to the Confucius Temple and to the sages; and the common people visiting the graves, etc.
At that time, a family or a clan would go to the ancestral grave together, offer sacrifices, add soil, hang paper money, then scatter Zitui Swallow, Snake and Rabbit on the top of the grave and roll them down, then string them up with willow branches or knotty needles and place them in a high place in the room, in the hope of receiving the ancestors' virtues.

A new stage of life has already begun in 2020. In order to make 2020 more meaningful and predict your fortune in advance, you can click on the "Premium Calculation" below to learn the latest and most comprehensive fortune. I wish you a smooth and safe 2020!

<<:  Is the 11th day of the third lunar month in 2020 - Cold Food Festival (April 3) an auspicious day for a funeral?

>>:  Is the day before Qingming Festival in 2020 an auspicious day? Is it okay to burn incense and pray for blessings on Cold Food Festival?

Recommend

Where is the God of Wealth on August 16, 2017?

August is the month of osmanthus, because the str...

What should we eat during Xiaohan? Traditional food of Xiaohan

When each solar term changes, due to weather reaso...

Is December 29th of the lunar calendar in 2017 a good day to start renovations?

Choosing the right time and location to start the ...

What day is Mother's Day in 2020? What gift should I give to my mother?

May is truly a month full of infinite hope and joy...