Cold Food Festival 2020 - Can we visit graves and worship our ancestors on March 11th? Is Cold Food Festival the same as Qingming Festival?

Cold Food Festival 2020 - Can we visit graves and worship our ancestors on March 11th? Is Cold Food Festival the same as Qingming Festival?
Introduction: Generally, you need to choose an auspicious day to sweep tombs and worship ancestors. So, can you sweep tombs and worship ancestors on March 11, the Cold Food Festival in 2020? Is the Cold Food Festival the same as the Qingming Festival? It is the third month of the lunar calendar and spring is about to end. What are the good days in the third month of the lunar calendar? If you want to know more about the third month of the lunar calendar in 2020, please visit Mr. Shui Mo’s website.

Cold Food Festival 2020 - Can we visit graves and worship our ancestors on March 11th?

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, 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
Based on the above contents of the lunar calendar, we can know that today's sacrifice [i.e. tomb sweeping and ancestor worship] is in accordance with the lunar calendar, so you can sweep tombs and worship your ancestors on March 11, 2020, the Cold Food Festival!

Is Cold Food Festival the same as Qingming Festival?

Cold Food Festival is a traditional Chinese festival, which is held 105 days after the winter solstice in the lunar calendar and one or two days before Qingming Festival. At the beginning of the festival, fireworks are prohibited and only cold food is eaten.
In the development of later generations, customs such as tomb sweeping, outing, swings, kicking football, tug-of-war, and cockfighting were gradually added. The Cold Food Festival lasted for more than two thousand years and was once known as the largest folk festival in China.
Cold Food Festival is the only traditional festival of the Han nationality that is named after a food custom.
Based on the above definition of Cold Food Festival, we can know that Cold Food Festival is not Qingming Festival. Cold Food Festival is usually one or two days before Qingming Festival!

——Cold Food Festival Tomb Sweeping Time and Necessary Offerings

Tomb sweeping time during Cold Food Festival: preferably between 9:00 a.m. and 15:00 p.m.
Don't go to the cemetery too early or too late. On the first day of October, the sun rises later and sets earlier. The period from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. is the time of the day when the Yang energy is relatively strong, which will strengthen your own Yang energy.
Essential offerings for the Cold Food Festival: incense, candles, paper money, fruits, snacks, and vegetarian wine.

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