Don’t you go to the graves to worship your ancestors on the day of the Beginning of Spring? When is the “Beginning of Spring Festival”?
The Beginning of Spring is an important solar term and the first solar term at the beginning of the new year. Don’t people go to the graves to worship their ancestors on the day of the Beginning of Spring? When is the “Beginning of Spring Festival”? The first month of the lunar calendar is an important month. Let us pay attention to the traditional festivals in the first month and have a good start of the month together. For more knowledge related to the first month of the lunar year, please pay attention to the 2020 first month special topic on Shuimoxiansheng.com.Don’t you go to the graves to worship your ancestors on the day of the Beginning of Spring?》Generally speaking, in many places people visit the graves before the beginning of spring.In many areas, people worship their ancestors at the beginning of spring. As recorded in Guangdong's "Xin'an County Chronicles": "People hold events at their ancestral temples on this day." The food offered to ancestors at the beginning of spring is also special. The Annals of Ruyang County in Henan Province recorded: "A spring banquet was held, spring pancakes were eaten, and oracle bones and pears were offered." The Linying County Annals refer to the Spring Beginning Ceremony as "Yaochun". 》Folk custom: The beginning of spring is to visit the graves and worship ancestors. Time: Generally before the beginning of spring, during the Spring Festival. Taboo: In many places, it is forbidden to start construction after the beginning of spring. New Year's Eve: On New Year's Eve, all relatives who have been away from home come back. At this time, every household will go to the graves to report safety to the deceased family members and hope that the ancestral spirits will bless their descendants with prosperity, happiness and health. Rely on and miss: People will burn some paper money and scatter some rice wine to celebrate the festival with their deceased relatives. This is also a way to express their grief and tell them that the living are living well and have not forgotten them, in order to comfort the deceased. ——Rules for visiting graves and offering sacrifices to ancestors: 《1》Time: 10am - 3pm <br /> Choose to go when the Yang energy is strong, usually between 10am and 3pm. It is not allowed to visit the graves before dawn, in the evening or at night. Because the yang energy is weak and the yin energy is strong at this time, it is very unfavorable for people to visit the graves. 《2》Be safe: Do not travel alone <br /> Do not go to worship ancestors alone, especially in remote places, and it is best to go according to the normal schedule. Firstly, it is a safety issue, and secondly, remote places are swollen with yin energy, which is easy to attract evil spirits. 《3》 Etiquette: Clearing Weeds <br /> When facing the ancestral graves, you must clear the weeds, add some loose soil, sweep away the debris in front of the grave, and clean the tombstone. And they pray silently in their hearts, hoping that the ancestors in the netherworld will bless the future generations with wealth and prosperity. When is the “Beginning of Spring Festival”?——Lichun Festival: One of the customs of the Lichun solar term <br /> In many areas, people worship their ancestors at the beginning of spring. As recorded in Guangdong's "Xin'an County Chronicles": "People hold events at their ancestral temples on this day."Although welcoming the beginning of spring today is not as grand as before, people still place their hopes on this day, so different places still have some special ways to welcome the beginning of spring, such as "beating spring", "biting spring", hanging windmills, and outings. The Beginning of Spring Festival is a traditional folk cultural activity. ——Lichun Festival Activities: (1) Offering sacrifices to the God of Spring (the God of Spring in charge of agricultural affairs, Ju Mang, is also called Mang God), Tai Sui, the God of Land, and other gods. Activities such as whipping the spring ox, welcoming spring, exploring spring, and biting spring are also held. (2) Worshipping Tai Sui at the beginning of spring is an ancient Chinese custom to ward off evil and disasters and pray for good fortune. (3) In Zhejiang Province, people celebrate the Spring Festival on the day before the beginning of spring. (4) On the day before the beginning of spring, the god Ju Mang is carried out of the city to the mountain, and sacrifices are offered to Tai Sui at the same time. Tai Sui is the god of the year. He guards the year and is in charge of the good and bad fortune of the year. Therefore, people often offer sacrifices to him. |
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