What kind of flowers should I buy for tomb-sweeping and ancestor worship during Qingming Festival? What should you pay attention to when buying flowers during Qingming Festival?

What kind of flowers should I buy for tomb-sweeping and ancestor worship during Qingming Festival? What should you pay attention to when buying flowers during Qingming Festival?
With the continuous development of people's material life, people have various ways to worship their ancestors on Qingming Festival. Among them, colorful flowers are loved by the majority of people. The flowers used for ancestor worship are actually very particular. For more details about the lunar calendar for February 2018, please visit the Fortune Teller website for consultation!

 

What flowers are used for tomb sweeping and ancestor worship during Qingming Festival?

During the traditional Chinese Qingming Festival, delicate willow branches and bright peach blossoms are often used for tomb sweeping to express the beautiful expectation of the revival of all things in spring and the cycle of life. Nowadays, chrysanthemums and carnations are very popular among the public because of their elegant fragrance and plain colors. In many European countries, chrysanthemums are also used as cemetery flowers.
Generally speaking, white flowers represent mourning, so it is more appropriate to choose white chrysanthemums, white lilies, calla lilies, etc. for tomb sweeping. White roses, gardenias or plain-colored flowers symbolize regret and remembrance. Others prefer simple, tough plants such as philadelphus, gladiolus, and sedge. Yellow flowers can also express mourning, among which yellow chrysanthemum is the most commonly used.
Of course, you don't have to stick to this when sweeping the graves. You can choose the type of flowers according to the age and preferences of the deceased. You can also choose forget-me-nots, yellow roses, red roses, birds of paradise and other flowers. The specifics vary from person to person.
If an elderly person in his or her seventies has passed away, the proportion of red and pink flowers can be appropriately increased. These warm colors can better reflect the lingering longing of the younger generation. It should be noted that, unless there are special circumstances, it is best not to use brightly colored flowers with strong fragrance, so as not to give people the impression of disrespecting the deceased.

What should you pay attention to when buying flowers during Qingming Festival?

The flowers used for Qingming Festival are mostly tied into bouquets. The color elements of the flowers are light, mainly white, supplemented by yellow, and dotted with purple. The flowers that make up the Qingming Festival bouquet can be selected from the following: calla lily, carnation, gladiolus, chrysanthemum, cosmos, rose, forget-me-not, etc.
The flowers used for tomb sweeping on Qingming Festival are mainly to express a feeling of nostalgia. The color of the flowers is mainly white, such as white lilies, white calla lilies, white or yellow roses, with white and yellow interlaced, and a few purple forget-me-nots added. Such a bouquet of flowers, placed in front of the grave of a loved one, expresses deep longing. There is no need to deliberately pursue the meaning of flowers used during Qingming Festival. Using the language of color is enough to convey grief.

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