Is April 18th of the lunar calendar in 2019 an auspicious day for visiting graves and worshipping ancestors?

Is April 18th of the lunar calendar in 2019 an auspicious day for visiting graves and worshipping ancestors?
Introduction: Visiting the graves to pay homage to ancestors is also an important matter, so you have to choose an auspicious day to do so. So is April 18th of the lunar calendar in 2019 an auspicious day to visit the graves to pay homage to ancestors? Follow the editor to find out! By April, everything is lush and green. Shuimoxiansheng.com takes you to experience every day of April in the lunar calendar in 2019.
2019 Lunar April 18th lunar calendar query:
Lunar calendar April 18, 2019 (small day)
May 22, 2019, Wednesday Gemini (solar calendar)
【Today’s lunar calendar is suitable】
Marry, accept marriage proposal, seek heir, remove pillars, raise beams, take in livestock, open warehouses, raise livestock, tailor clothes, meridians
[Today’s taboos in the almanac]
Opening the market, setting up a certificate, collecting money, separating, planting, setting up a bed, traveling, seeking money, building, moving into a house, breaking ground, funerals, burials, offering sacrifices
Pray for blessings, start construction, build embankments, release water, go to work, buy property, travel by boat, build houses, migrate
From the above almanac content, we can see that the sacrifice [i.e. visiting graves to worship ancestors] on the 18th day of the fourth lunar month in 2019 is taboo in the almanac, so today is not a suitable day to visit graves to worship ancestors!

What is the meaning of sacrifice?

Sacrifice refers to a series of symbolic actions or rituals performed to worship gods and ancestors in accordance with the requirements of religious or social customs. Sacrifice is a traditional ritual to pray to gods for blessings and ward off disasters, and is known as a lucky ceremony. "Sacrifice" also means respecting gods, praying to gods and worshiping ancestors.
According to the explanation in Cihai, in the religious and folk sense, sacrifice is a general term for offering sacrifices to gods, ancestors or mourning the dead with rituals. Such as offering sacrifices to heaven, offering sacrifices to ancestors, and public sacrifices; sacrifice: refers to offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors.
The contents of sacrifice include venue, ceremony, sacrificial text (prayers, words), and offerings. The forms of sacrifices have been constantly changing with the passage of history. In recent years, the emerging online sacrifices have gradually entered people's lives and are being adopted by people under the advocacy of the Ministry of Civil Affairs. It is predicted that online sacrifices will become one of people’s sacrificial activities in the future.

Sacrificial Rituals

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.

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