Can pregnant women participate in tomb sweeping during Qingming Festival? What should you pay attention to when sweeping tombs?

Can pregnant women participate in tomb sweeping during Qingming Festival? What should you pay attention to when sweeping tombs?
Introduction: Qingming Festival is a festival for worshiping family ancestors. It means remembering the ancestors of the family, and at the same time hoping that the ancestral spirits will protect the descendants and grandchildren and the prosperity of the family business. So can pregnant women participate in tomb sweeping during Qingming Festival? What should you pay attention to when sweeping tombs? Let’s take a look together below! March is the last month of spring, when all things will revive and begin a beautiful growth process. The third month of the lunar calendar is a time full of vitality because it is the most beautiful.

1. Pregnant women and women who are menstruating should avoid tomb sweeping

Generally speaking, pregnant women should avoid the Qingming Festival mountain-visiting activities, and not only that. Strictly speaking, women who are menstruating should not participate in such activities, especially the Qingming Festival after 3 pm. A reminder to friends: Our country is vast, and the customs of tomb sweeping in the north and south are slightly different. For example, in the south, both sons and daughters usually go to sweep the tombs, while in some places in the north, daughters usually do not go to sweep the tombs. If the daughter is married, she will go to sweep the tombs with her husband.

2. It is best to fast before tomb sweeping

When you start to sweep the graves, it is best not to eat food or to eat vegetarian food, and to dress neatly to show courtesy and respect to the ancestors.

3. Do not laugh or yell when visiting the graves

In traditional customs, cemeteries are the resting place of ancestors, so one should not step over tombs and offerings, make loud noises, laugh, curse, use foul language, run around, or urinate anywhere, as doing so is disrespectful to the ancestors. You are not allowed to trample on other people's graves or comment on the design of the tomb, as this will be regarded as blasphemy.

4. Do not take photos at the graves of your ancestors

In China, ancestor worship is not just about commemorating ancestors, it also means worshiping and praying. Special reminder: Be cautious when taking photos at your ancestors' graves, whether it is a photo of the tomb-sweepers themselves or a photo of the tomb-sweepers and the graveyard. It is even more taboo to take photos of other graves.

5. Avoid wearing bright red or purple

In particular, you should avoid wearing clothes in bright red or purple; you should wear plain-colored clothes. In addition, do not wear red accessories (except for those in your zodiac year).

6. Avoid buying shoes during the Qingming Festival

Some people happen to have their birthdays on Qingming Festival, so sometimes they can't help but buy a pair of shoes during the festival. Don’t you know that “shoes” and “evil” have the same pronunciation? That’s why people usually don’t buy shoes at this time.

7. It is taboo to visit friends and relatives during the Qingming Festival

It is best not to visit relatives and friends on Qingming Festival. It is better to visit them the next day. Because Qingming Festival is a special time for memorializing relatives, it is inappropriate or unlucky to visit relatives and friends at this time. Of course, you can also invite your relatives and friends to dine out. Similarly, marriage is a major event in life, so it is best to avoid getting married during the Qingming Festival.

8. Outsiders should not participate in other people’s tomb sweeping

For various reasons, many people may encounter the question of whether to accompany friends to visit graves, such as whether a girlfriend accompanies her boyfriend to visit graves, subordinates accompany their superiors to visit graves, or even accompany clients to visit graves in the business world. According to traditional customs, it is best not for outsiders to accompany people to sweep tombs.

9. Do not cover your forehead when walking at night during Qingming Festival

In traditional customs, Qingming Festival is also considered the Ghost Festival. If you need to walk at night, your hair cannot cover your forehead, because the ancients believed that the forehead is the "magic lamp" of the human body and cannot be covered.

10. Birthday cakes cannot be eaten on the Qingming Festival.

Some friends' birthdays happen to fall on Qingming Festival, so it's best to celebrate them in advance. There are also some other small details, such as not accepting flowers on the day, and not eating the birthday cake on the day.
Summary: The above is about whether pregnant women can participate in tomb sweeping and what to pay attention to when tomb sweeping. We know that it is best for pregnant women not to participate in tomb sweeping! I hope the above content is helpful to everyone!

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