Can I visit the graves and pay homage to my ancestors during Grain in Ear Festival the day before the Dragon Boat Festival in 2019? Is it good to visit the graves during Grain in Ear Festival?

Can I visit the graves and pay homage to my ancestors during Grain in Ear Festival the day before the Dragon Boat Festival in 2019? Is it good to visit the graves during Grain in Ear Festival?
Introduction: Visiting the graves and paying homage to ancestors is also an important matter, so you have to choose an auspicious day to visit the graves and pay homage to your ancestors. So can you visit the graves and pay homage to your ancestors on the day before the Dragon Boat Festival in 2019? Is it good to visit the graves on the day of Grain in Ear? The fifth month of the lunar calendar is a beautiful time as described by the ancients: "The ground is covered with shade from the trees, the sun is at noon, and I wake up from my dream by the sound of a nightingale." For more information about the auspicious and inauspicious days in the fifth month of the lunar calendar in 2019, please visit Mr. Shuimo's website.
Query the lunar calendar for the fourth day of the fifth lunar month in 2019:
The fourth day of the fifth month of the lunar year 2019 (lunar calendar)
Gemini, Thursday, June 6, 2019 (Gregorian calendar)
【Today’s lunar calendar is suitable】
Pray for blessings, get married, migrate, take up a post, accept marriage proposal, recruit a son-in-law, fast and offer sacrifices, open the market, accept money, worship, bury, go to school, tailor clothes, seek children, seek money
[Today’s taboos in the almanac]
Litigation, raising beams and erecting pillars, installing beds, building construction, breaking ground, wearing a hairpin, building a house, traveling, seeking medical advice
From the above almanac content, we can know that the sacrifice during the Grain in Ear Festival on the fourth day of the fifth lunar month in 2019 [i.e. visiting graves and worshipping ancestors] is suitable according to the almanac, so today is a suitable day for visiting graves and worshipping ancestors !

What should you pay attention to when visiting graves and paying homage to your ancestors?

1. Place food, bowls, chopsticks, wine glasses, tea and other offerings on the graves of ancestors, and then light three incense sticks in front of the graves.
2. Pour the first glass of wine after lighting the incense. After about 30 minutes or half of the incense is burned, one person will light three incense sticks for the second time and pour the second glass of wine.
3. When the incense is half burned, place offerings to the land god who looks after the grave, and then burn a piece of yellow paper to protect the ancestors from harm.
4. When the three incense sticks have burned out, remove the offerings and leave a small amount of money and other belongings to be burned on other graves to prevent other ghosts from stealing money and clothes from the ancestral graves after the people who visited the graves leave.
Precautions
1. Do not laugh, play, run around or bump into anything around a cemetery. Doing so is not only impolite, but also disrespectful to the ancestors.
Second, it is not advisable to wear bright red or bright green clothes, and pregnant women, the sick, and children under 7 years old should not go to sweep the graves.
3. What is usually said during the sacrifice: what you plan to do at the grave, why you do it, and the hope that the ancestors will bless you, and everything will go smoothly and peacefully.

What is the origin of the Grain in Ear solar term?

Every year on June 5th, 6th or 7th, when the sun reaches 75 degrees of the ecliptic longitude, it is the ninth solar term of the 24 solar terms, Grain in Ear. At this time of year, wheat and other awned crops are about to be harvested, and millet and sorghum crops are being planted.
The Collection of Explanations of the 72 Solar Terms in the Lunar Calendar says: "The May Festival means that the seeds of crops with awns can be planted." It means that the seeds of crops with awns such as barley and wheat are ripe, and it is urgent to harvest them. “Strive for time in spring and strive for time in summer”, the “struggle for time” refers to the busy farming season of harvest and planting. People often say the “three busy summers” refer to the busy summer harvest, summer planting and summer management of spring-sown crops. Therefore, "Mangzhong" is also called "busy planting", which is the busiest time for farmers to sow seeds and go to the fields.
Grain in Ear is the ninth solar term in the twenty-four solar terms of the lunar calendar, marking the official start of midsummer; at this time the sun reaches 75 degrees of the ecliptic longitude. The "mang" in Mangzhong refers to the harvest of awned plants such as wheat, while the "zhong" in Mangzhong refers to the season for sowing millet crops. The homophonic meaning of the word “Mangzhong” indicates that all crops are “busy planting”. Therefore, "Mangzhong" is also called "busy planting" or "busy planting", which means the scattering sowing by farmers. The arrival of Grain in Ear indicates that farmers have begun their busy life in the fields.

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