What is the saying about being born on Qingming Festival as a heavenly fetus? What is the significance of tomb sweeping on Qingming Festival?

What is the saying about being born on Qingming Festival as a heavenly fetus? What is the significance of tomb sweeping on Qingming Festival?
Introduction: Qingming Festival is a familiar traditional festival for many people, and it is also an important day for worshiping and sweeping tombs. So what is the saying about being born on Qingming Festival being a heavenly fetus? What is the significance of sweeping tombs on Qingming Festival? In March, all things come back to life, willows are green, flowers are red, orioles are singing and swallows are dancing, and the earth is full of vitality. Shuimoxiansheng.com has compiled detailed information for you about the third month of the lunar calendar in 2019!

What is the saying about those born on Qingming Festival being born from heaven?

In the past, there was a saying that people born on the Ghost Festival were called "Heavenly Fetuses" (Ghost Festival generally refers to the Shangyuan Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month, the Zhongyuan Festival on the 15th day of the seventh lunar month, and the Xiayuan Festival on the 15th day of the tenth lunar month. In some places in the south, March 3 and Qingming Festival are also considered Ghost Festivals, but Taoism still focuses on the Upper, Middle and Lower Yuan Festivals); because on the day of the Ghost Festival the gates of hell are wide open and alien spirits can freely enter and exit the Yin and Yang worlds. If a child is born on that day, he or she may be different from other children. Therefore, in the past many parents would secretly advance or postpone the date when registering such a child by one day, and were unwilling to celebrate their child's birthday on the Ghost Festival. Of course, some people believe that since a child born on that day can be called a "Heavenly Fetus", he or she must be gifted and have no taboos, and it is something worth celebrating.
Qingming Festival is also called Ghost Festival. In folk feng shui, children born on Ghost Festival are transformed from wandering ghosts, so people born on Ghost Festival are also called heavenly fetuses. It is said that people born on Ghost Festival are prone to qi deficiency, cold stomach, and cold limbs, but people born on Ghost Festival have a strong destiny and unique personality traits.

What is the significance of tomb sweeping on Qingming Festival?

Tomb sweeping during Qingming Festival is called "respect for ancestors". The custom has a long history. The Ming Dynasty's "A Brief Account of Scenery in the Imperial Capital" records: "On the Qingming Festival in March, men and women sweep the tombs, carrying jugs, with paper mulberry sticks hung behind sedan chairs and horses, filling the streets with people. Those who worship, pour wine, cry, and weed and add soil to the tombs burn paper mulberry sticks and place paper money on the grave. If there is no paper money in sight, then the grave is an isolated one. After crying, people do not return home, but instead go to fragrant trees and choose gardens, where they sit and get drunk." In fact, tomb sweeping existed before the Qin Dynasty, but it was not necessarily during the Qingming Festival. Tomb sweeping on the Qingming Festival is a practice that began after the Qin Dynasty. It only became popular during the Tang Dynasty. And it has been passed down to this day.
The Qingming Festival memorial ceremony should be held in person at the cemetery, but since each family’s economic and other conditions are different, the ways of memorializing the dead are also different. "Burning bundles" is the main form of ancestor worship. The so-called "package", also known as "parcel", refers to the parcel sent from the world of the living to the "underworld" by filial relatives. In the past, paper shops in the south sold so-called "bag skins", which were large bags made of white paper. There are two forms: one is to use a woodcut version, with the Sanskrit transliteration of "Nirvana Sutra" printed around it, and a lotus seat tablet printed in the middle, on which the name of the deceased is written, such as: "The late Mr. Zhang Fujun, whose name is Yunshan". It is both a postal package and a tablet.
The other type is a plain wrapping cloth without any pattern printed on it. There is only a blue label in the middle with the name of the deceased written on it. Also used as the main card. There are many kinds of paper money in the bundle.

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