When is the Winter Solstice in 2018? Do we need to visit the graves during the Winter Solstice?
2018 is coming to an end. When is the winter solstice this year? Should we visit graves during the winter solstice? Shui Mo Xiansheng website has carefully compiled detailed information about the eleventh month of the lunar calendar in 2018. If you want to know about the auspiciousness and inauspiciousness of the eleventh month of the lunar calendar, please come to Shui Mo Xiansheng website!When is the Winter Solstice in 2018?Lunar calendar time: November 16, 2018 06:21:42Gregorian calendar time: Saturday, December 22, 2018 06:21:42 【The old almanac is suitable】 Marrying, traveling, migrating, taking up a post, building a house, moving into a new home, opening a business, offering sacrifices, coming of age, attending school, seeking a partner [Taboo in the old almanac] Planting, building, breaking ground, buying property, breaking ground, building embankments, releasing water, accepting marriage proposals, praying for children, shipping, raising beams, erecting pillars, burying, drilling, lifting boats Do we visit graves during the winter solstice?During the Tang and Song dynasties, the winter solstice was the day to worship heaven and ancestors. The emperor would go to the suburbs to hold a grand ceremony to worship heaven, and the people would worship their parents and elders on this day. In addition to each family worshipping their own direct ancestors, all families with "ancestral halls" or "ancestral temples" would hold a sacrificial ceremony together, which was called the winter solstice. Nowadays, some places still celebrate the winter solstice, which has gradually extended to tomb sweeping.According to the "Book of Zhou: Spring Officials and Gods", "When the winter solstice comes, worship the gods and ghosts." It seems that the winter solstice sacrificial activities have been carried out since the Zhou Dynasty. The "Monthly Orders for the Four Classes of People" of the Han Dynasty recorded that on the day of the winter solstice, millet cakes should be used as offerings to worship gods and ancestors. Everyone would drink and eat together, and also send blessings to teachers and the elderly. The customs were the same as those on the first day of the Lunar New Year. So it is possible to visit the graves during the Winter Solstice, but the customs vary from place to place. Some places require visiting the graves while others do not. Tomb-sweeping is meant to express grief and remember the deceased, and there are no restrictions on the time. |
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