Can I visit graves on the third day of the third lunar month? What is the lunar calendar date for March 3rd?

Can I visit graves on the third day of the third lunar month? What is the lunar calendar date for March 3rd?
Tomb sweeping is one of China's traditional cultures. Qingming Festival is the day when people sweep tombs in most parts of our country, and in fact, there is also a custom of tomb sweeping during other traditional festivals. In the third month of the lunar calendar, the weather gradually becomes warmer. Embracing the warmth of spring, the whole earth is full of vitality. The Fortune Teller website will interpret every day of the third month of the lunar calendar in 2018 for you!

Can I visit graves on the third day of the third lunar month?

March 3 is also called Shangsi Festival, when people can visit graves and sweep tombs.
"March 3rd" is on the third day of the third month in the lunar calendar and it evolved from the Shangsi Festival. The Shangsi Festival itself is a worship activity for people to ward off disasters and pray for blessings. There is no folk custom that prohibits visiting graves and offering sacrifices on March 3rd. Moreover, the third day of the third lunar month is the day for visiting graves in Zhuang areas. Therefore, it is possible to visit the graves on March 3rd.
According to ancient texts, Gao Zhu, a poet from Yuyao in the Southern Song Dynasty, wrote in his poem "Qingming Festival": "There are many tombs on the hilltops in the north and south, and people go to worship the dead on Qingming Festival. Paper ashes fly like white butterflies, and tears and blood turn red rhododendrons." This poem describes the scene of tomb sweeping on Qingming Festival in Ningbo during the Song Dynasty. There is an old saying in Ningbo: "Visiting graves on Qingming Festival in March, and starting of summer in April." "The black bamboo shoots are fragrant on Qingming Festival in March, and every family is busy visiting graves." "March 3rd is Qingming Festival, people go to graves to worship their ancestors and go for an outing." Therefore, people in many places choose to worship and sweep graves on March 3rd.

What is the lunar calendar date for March 3rd?

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[Do not use this day for major events] Taking up a post, migrating, collecting money, planting, building a house, offering sacrifices, traveling, coming of age, attending school, and seeking help [taboo]
[Do not use it for important events on the day of Sui Po] Make the bed, fast and pray for blessings, break ground, perform funerals, bury, release water, take in livestock, build buildings, start construction, buy property, build embankments, take in brides, seek heirs, ship goods, put up beams and erect pillars, start drilling, cancel marriages, move into new homes, sail, Peng Zu's 100 taboos: Geng does not flow through the meridians, Chen does not cry, conflict: Dragon Day conflict (Jia Xu), Dog Yearly Evil: Yearly Evil Southern Constellation: Dongfang Ji Water Leopard - Good luck Gods to follow: Longde, Qinglong, Shouri, Tianen, Yuyu, Yueen Evil Evils to avoid: Axe killing, ghost crying, three funerals, Tianwen, Tufu, Wugui, Yuejian, Zhenghongsha

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