Introduction: Relocating graves is an important and serious matter, so an auspicious day must be chosen for relocating graves. So is it taboo to relocate graves on the Ching Ming Festival on March 12, 2020? What does it mean to not celebrate the Ching Ming Festival? In the third month of the lunar calendar, light footsteps pass through the soft raindrops, and in the bright smile, the willow branches turn green and the grass becomes green. Come with Shuimoxiansheng.com to learn more about the third month of the lunar calendar in 2020.Is it taboo to move graves on the Qingming Festival on March 12, 2020?Lunar calendar: March 12, 2020 Gregorian calendar: April 4, 2020, Saturday, Aries [Today is auspicious according to the old almanac] [Do not use it for important events on this day] Get married, receive wealth, set up beds and build stoves, recruit sons-in-law and seek heirs, break ground, take up office, erect pillars and beams, plant, hold funerals, catch and go to school [Today is unacceptable according to the old almanac] [Do not use it for important events on this day] Build houses, repair graves, bury, move, install incense, offer sacrifices, pray for blessings, build bridges, build dams, open warehouses, bury and move coffins, break ground, start drilling, take in livestock, collect money, release water, travel through the meridians, and open the market. Based on the above content, we can know that today is [Do not use it for important events on this day], so it is taboo to move graves on March 12, 2020, Qingming Festival!What does it mean to not celebrate the Qingming Festival?The meaning of "not celebrating the Qingming Festival" is that people who have just passed away should be worshipped before the Qingming Festival. In the past, people would not worship the recently deceased during the Qingming Festival. Instead, they would choose to worship on the Spring Festival before the Qingming Festival. The Spring Festival is earlier than the Qingming Festival, so this is just a traditional custom. "She" refers to "Spring Festival", which is the fifth day after the beginning of spring. It was a festival for ancient people to pray for a good harvest. According to legend, King Yama gives "favorable treatment" to all new ghosts, allowing them to enjoy the offerings of their relatives in advance. Therefore, filial sons and grandchildren can pay homage to them early without having to wait until Qingming Festival. However, "Spring Festival" is the day to worship the land god. In order to prevent the gods and ghosts from "fighting for food", the worship of the ancestors who have just passed away must be done before "Spring Festival". The Spring Festival falls before the Spring Equinox in some years and after it in other years. In many places in our country, there is a saying that "new graves cannot be buried outside the community." It means that tomb sweeping for new graves (those who died in the previous year or the current year, and in some areas it means those who died within three years) should be done before the Spring Festival. As recorded in "Shi Nan Prefecture Records": "For newly buried graves, sacrifices are offered in front of the community, and all men, women and relatives of the same family go." Customs of Qingming Festival: Tomb sweeping and ancestor worship Tomb sweeping on Qingming Festival is called "tomb sacrifice", which is called "timely respect" for ancestors. Sweeping and worshiping ancestors is a way of remembering the ancestors, and the custom has a long history. According to archaeological excavations, a tomb dating back 10,000 years was discovered at the Qingtang site in Yingde, Guangdong. Accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) dating it back to about 13,500 years ago, dating back to the late Paleolithic period. It is the earliest tomb in China with a verifiable burial style, indicating that more than 10,000 years ago, the ancient people in Lingnan already had clear and conscious burial behaviors and ritual concepts. Tomb sweeping and ancestor worship are the core customs of the Qingming Festival. The Qingming Festival is mainly for ancestor worship, expressing the filial piety of the worshiper and his longing for the ancestors. It is a cultural tradition of respecting ancestors and remembering the past. Qingming Festival was originally an "ancestor worship festival" and was given the name "Ghost Festival" during its development and evolution in later generations. In ancient times, people worshipped their ancestors to express filial piety, gratitude and remembrance of their ancestors, and did not call the festival for worshiping their ancestors the Ghost Festival. Qingming sacrifices can be divided into tomb sacrifices and ancestral hall sacrifices according to the different places of sacrifice. Tomb sacrifice is the most common. The characteristic of Qingming sacrifice is tomb sacrifice. Qingming sacrifice is called tomb sweeping, mainly because of the tomb sacrifice method. Another form is the ancestral hall sacrifice, also known as the temple sacrifice, where a clan gathers in the ancestral hall to worship their ancestors. After the sacrifice, they hold a meeting and dinner. 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