Is it possible to visit the graves during the 2019 Lantern Festival according to the lunar calendar? What should we pay attention to when offering sacrifices to our ancestors during the Lantern Festival?

Is it possible to visit the graves during the 2019 Lantern Festival according to the lunar calendar? What should we pay attention to when offering sacrifices to our ancestors during the Lantern Festival?
Introduction: In our country’s traditional culture, we usually need to choose an auspicious day to visit graves and worship our ancestors. So, can we visit graves on the lunar calendar during the Lantern Festival in 2019? What should we pay attention to when worshiping our ancestors during the Lantern Festival? Shuimoxiansheng.com provides you with more content related to the first month of the lunar calendar in 2019. Everyone is welcome to learn about it together!

Is it possible to visit graves during the 2019 Lantern Festival on the lunar calendar?

2019 Lantern Festival Calendar Query:
The 15th day of the first lunar month of the year 2019 (Lunar calendar)
February 19, 2019, Tuesday, Pisces (solar calendar)
【Today’s lunar calendar is suitable】
Pray for blessings, get married, migrate, bring in wealth, move into a new house, build a stove, accept a bride, recruit a son-in-law, offer sacrifices, fast and pray, build, seek an heir, lift the groundbreaking ceremony, take up a post, erect pillars, plant, issue a certificate, capture and enroll in school
[Today’s taboos in the almanac]
Repair graves, bury people, set up beds, cut trees, raise beams, take in livestock, build houses, start drilling, travel meridians, break ground, open businesses
Based on the above contents of the lunar calendar, we can know that the day of the Lantern Festival in 2019 is suitable for offering sacrifices [i.e. visiting graves] according to the lunar calendar. Therefore, the day of the Lantern Festival in 2019 is suitable for visiting graves and worshiping ancestors!
On the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month
1. According to historical records, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is one of China's traditional sacrificial festivals. As early as the Western Han Dynasty, Emperor Wu of Han would hold a sacrificial ceremony for "Taiyi" in Ganquan Palace on the fifteenth night of the first lunar month. People would also offer sacrifices, burn incense, kowtow and pray for blessings in ancestral halls on the night of the Lantern Festival.
2. As time goes by, on the Lantern Festival, people from many places will return home from all directions, gather together, and then after lunch, bring paper money and firecrackers to their ancestral graves to burn paper, worship their ancestors, set off firecrackers, and pay homage to their deceased ancestors.
3. However, due to different customs in different places, some places do not have the custom of ancestor worship on the Lantern Festival. Generally, people go to the tombs to worship before the New Year. New Year's Eve to the Lantern Festival are all part of the New Year celebrations, and tomb sweeping is generally not done.
What should we pay attention to when worshipping our ancestors during the Lantern Festival?
Necessary offerings <br /> Necessary offerings: incense, candles, paper money, fruits, snacks, vegetarian wine.
Specific time <br /> Generally speaking, the best time to visit the graves is between 7am and 5pm. It is not advisable to visit the graves before daybreak or before sunset.
Dress appropriately <br /> Sacrificial offerings are a solemn matter, so when visiting the graves, you should dress neatly and look solemn. Do not wear revealing clothes, use vulgar language, or make loud noises.
Verbal taboos <br /> When visiting the graves, you must be fully focused and not say anything disrespectful to the deceased. Do not look around, do not look closely at other people's graves, do not step on other people's graves, or make comments about other people's graves.
Important suggestions <br /> People with weak fate should not go to the cemetery alone. In terms of clothing, it is recommended to wear red underwear, red socks, or a red hat, etc.

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