Can we worship our ancestors on Qingming Festival on the first day of the third lunar month in 2019?

Can we worship our ancestors on Qingming Festival on the first day of the third lunar month in 2019?
The first day of March in the lunar calendar in 2019 is Qingming Festival. So is the lunar calendar suitable for Qingming Festival to worship ancestors? The third month of the lunar calendar is the month with the best spring scenery. Spring, also known as spring, is the first season of the four seasons. Shuimoxiansheng.com has compiled detailed information for you about the third month of the lunar calendar in 2019. Let’s take a look.

Can we worship our ancestors on Qingming Festival on the first day of the third lunar month in 2019?

Lunar calendar year 2019, March 1st
Aries (Friday, April 5, 2019)
【Today’s lunar calendar is suitable】
Pray for blessings, get married, bring wealth into the house, start business, build stoves and break ground, start drilling, repair graves, build houses, seek heirs, erect pillars and go to school, offer sacrifices, make clothes and pray for wealth, get married and wear a hairpin [Today's taboos in the old almanac]
Planting, litigation, migration, raising beams, burial, bed installation, building, groundbreaking, seeking medical treatment, taking up a post, buying property, sailing, traveling, and going out on a mission. Solar term Qingming: Friday, April 5, 2019 09:50:41
Today's conflicts and combinations: conflict with Tiger, punishment with Tiger, harm with Pig, destruction with Snake, combination with Snake, combination with Rat and Dragon, combination with Snake
According to the old almanac, one of the appropriate things to do on the Qingming Festival, the first day of the third lunar month in 2019, is to offer sacrifices to ancestors, so it is possible to offer sacrifices to ancestors.

What is Qingming Festival?

Qingming Festival is the most solemn and grand festival for ancestor worship of the Chinese nation. It is a traditional cultural festival for honoring ancestors, promoting filial piety, and remembering the dead. The Qingming Festival has a long history and originated from the spring sacrifice activities in ancient times. The spring and autumn sacrifices have existed since ancient times. The formulation of the ancient Ganzhi calendar provided the prerequisite for the creation of the festival. Ancestor worship and sacrificial culture are important factors in the formation of Qingming Festival. Qingming has the connotations of both a solar term and a festival. The time and meteorological and phenological characteristics of the Qingming solar term provide important conditions for the formation of Qingming festival customs. The Qingming solar term is one of the 24 specific solar terms in the ancient Ganzhi calendar that represents the change of seasons. During this time, the old is exchanged for the new, vitality begins to flourish, the temperature rises, all things are clean, and the earth presents an image of spring and brightness. It is a good time for outings in the suburbs (spring tours) and tomb-worshipping activities (tomb-worshipping rituals). The Qingming Festival integrates the solar term with folk customs, and is a combination of the right time, the right place, and the right people.

Family ancestor worship rituals:

1. Prepare offerings , food, paper money, tableware, bowls, chopsticks and spoons in a basin and put some water in the basin.
2. Bring the altar to the table. The altar should be placed horizontally for offering sacrifices to the gods and vertically for offering sacrifices to the ancestors. Put red paper (cut the red paper into small square pieces as a sacrificial certificate) or carrot slices (cut into round pieces), then take a piece of paper money, fold it in half and light it, and circle it around the offerings three times (this is called breaking the filth).
3. Light the candles and incense and hold the incense with both hands: left hand outside and right hand inside.
Kneel down while holding incense: the position can be above the heart. If you don’t have a kneeling pad, you can also stand.
4. When burning incense , state clearly what time it is today (in the lunar calendar), the name of the person offering sacrifices (including whose descendants), the reason for the sacrifice, and who the sacrifice is mainly for (you must use honorific titles of seniority here and cannot call people by their names. You must also state that the ancestors you don’t know are being invited on the person being offered sacrifices’ behalf, indicating that all of them are being invited). Then insert the incense into the incense burner with your left hand.
5. After completing the worship , step out and wait for more than ten minutes, then go back inside and bow three times. You can say some wishes, set off firecrackers and burn paper money (note that you don’t need to prepare firecrackers within the three-year mourning period, as some places pay attention to this). After completing the worship, put a little food from each bowl on the ground, then bow three more times to end. As the saying goes, "A good fate is not as good as good luck." A person's destiny is already determined, and the only thing that can be controlled is his or her "luck." Unexpected changes in the world may happen at any time, so use Mr. Shui Mo's [Premium Calculation] function to learn more about your fortune in 2019!

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