Is it appropriate to visit the graves the day before Qingming Festival? Is it good to visit the graves the day before Qingming Festival?
Introduction: Qingming Festival is a traditional folk festival in our country. When it comes to Qingming, I believe many people will think of the traditional custom of sweeping the tombs of their ancestors and commemorating them. However, is the time for tomb sweeping on Qingming Festival limited to Qingming Festival? Can it be advanced? Is it appropriate to visit the graves the day before Qingming Festival? Is it good to visit the graves the day before Qingming Festival? Let’s follow the editor to find out. 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.Is it okay to visit the graves the day before Qingming Festival?There is another saying about visiting graves the day before Qingming Festival. Some people call this day "Han's Day". It is said that an emperor once mistakenly killed his general Han Shizhong and his wife Liang Hongyu. He felt deeply guilty and asked a famous Taoist priest to perform a ritual so that all the offerings from people who visited their ancestors' graves on the day before Qingming Festival would be transferred to the Han family. Therefore, if you visit your ancestors' graves on the day before Qingming Festival, they will not be able to receive the offerings you made.Legend has it that a meeting is held in the underworld during the Qingming Festival, and people without descendants cannot attend. Those who attend the conference must hold the flags given by their descendants to enter. Therefore, when people visit their ancestors’ graves during the Qingming Festival, they place paper flags on the graves of their deceased ancestors. Therefore, the time to visit graves during the Qingming Festival should be before the Qingming Festival, not after the Qingming Festival. In some places, people visit their parents’ graves on Qingming Festival because married women come back to visit their parents’ graves on this day. Her brother will entertain her. "Early Qingming Festival, late 11th Night" means that on Qingming Festival, you should visit the graves before 12 o'clock and come back to eat; on 11th Night, you should visit the graves after lunch. Some people also say that people usually visit graves on Qingming Festival and burn paper before Qingming Festival or on the day of Qingming Festival. It is said that at that time, one hundred pieces of paper were burned for every two hundred. People in southern Fujian do not necessarily only visit graves on Qingming Festival. There are generally two dates for tomb sweeping. The custom in Quanzhou is a few days before and after Qingming Festival. In Zhangzhou, some people will choose to sweep tombs around Shangsi Festival on the third day of March. The Hakka people usually do it after the Spring Festival. The method is, after cleaning the grave environment (such as weeds and trees), first worship the land god, and then worship the ancestors. After the worship, "tomb paper" is pressed on the grave with small stones, which means that the grave has been repaired. People generally do not cook food on Qingming Festival, and only eat cold runbing. This is a custom that originated from the Cold Food Festival. In Hebei, burning paper money at graves is done "early on Qingming Festival and late on 11th day of the 11th month (Ghost Festival)". Tomb sweeping and paper burning begins a week before Qingming Festival, but few people go to sweep tombs on Qingming Festival day. People in southern Hebei choose to visit graves on the Cold Food Festival, the day before Qingming Festival. Summary: From the above article, we know that tomb sweeping is generally possible during the Qingming Festival. Every place has its own customs. The most important thing is to be sincere, so that you can get the blessings of your ancestors! |
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