Do we need to visit graves during the Winter Solstice in 2021? What is the difference between visiting graves during the Qingming Festival?
As a nation that values filial piety, the Chinese nation has several fixed festivals every year as days to worship ancestors, including the Winter Solstice and Qingming Festival. So, do we need to visit the graves during the Winter Solstice in 2021? What is the difference between visiting the graves during the Qingming Festival? "The winter solstice on the first day of the lunar month is the end and the beginning again." The arrival of November 2021 in the lunar calendar means the coming of winter snow and a drop in temperature. Whether your fortune will pick up, come to Shuimoxiansheng.com to find out!Should we visit graves during the Winter Solstice in 2021?1. According to custom, it is possible to sweep tombs on the Winter Solstice in 2021. If your family pays more attention to this aspect, you can choose to worship your ancestors on this day. For example, in Shaoxing and Xinchang counties in Zhejiang Province, people often visit their ancestors' tombs on the winter solstice, adding mud, weeding and repairing the foundations of the graves, believing that this is a good day to start construction, otherwise they may suffer unexpected disasters. In places like Jiangxi and Changning, Hunan, people also visit graves on the Winter Solstice with the same rituals as during the Qingming Festival. In Inner Mongolia, the winter solstice is called the "Ghost Festival", and people carry incense and paper to the graves to pay homage.2. According to the lunar calendar, the winter solstice of 2021 is not an auspicious day for tomb sweeping. It is not suitable for doing anything, especially for traveling. It is best not to choose to sweep tombs on this day. 3. There are two ways to do tomb sweeping on the Winter Solstice. You can choose according to your own situation, not to mention that there are other factors such as weather that may interfere. What is the difference between tomb sweeping on the Winter Solstice and tomb sweeping on Qingming Festival?】Adding graves during Qingming FestivalThe reason for adding to the grave is that Chinese people have emphasized burial since ancient times. The soil on the grave is easily eroded by wind and rain, and will become shorter and shorter until it disappears. Some graves may even be dug holes by small animals, causing collapse. The sunken grave mounds are filled with soil again, just like the living people, and the old and broken houses are repaired. The only day to break ground is the Qingming Festival. You cannot disturb your loved ones at other times. Adding soil to the grave also demonstrates the reputation of the ancestors in exchange for the ancestors' protection of future generations. There is also a saying about the time to add soil. It is said that the three days consecutive to Qingming Festival are called "One Hundred and Five", Cold Food Festival and Qingming Festival respectively. The day to add soil and the day to visit the grave are very important. From the beginning of winter in the previous year to the day of "One Hundred and Five", there are exactly 150 days, which is called "One Hundred and Five". "One hundred and fifty, swallow soil." On the one hundred and fifty day, the swallows returned from the south and began to carry mud to build their nests. The rule of visiting graves on Qingming Festival is, "One hundred and fifty, to add soil." On the morning of the 15th, the men took shovels and went to their ancestors' graves to add soil. There is also a saying "three before and four after", which means it is best to go to the grave to burn paper and add soil three days before or four days after Qingming Festival. One theory is that because many people go to graves to burn paper on Qingming Festival, the burned paper money is easily lost. Moreover, the road to the underworld will not be too crowded during the first three days, so deceased relatives can receive paper money for the dead quickly. 】Send winter clothes during the winter solstice Generally, people cut paper into clothes for men and women before the winter solstice and send them to the ancestral tomb to be burned on the winter solstice, which is commonly known as "sending winter clothes." The winter solstice is the day with the shortest day and the longest night in the northern hemisphere. Although the day is the shortest on the winter solstice, the temperature is not the lowest. It is not very cold before the winter solstice because there is still "accumulated heat" on the surface of the earth. The real cold winter is after the winter solstice. In China, there is a saying that death is treated as life, so the living descendants worry that their deceased ancestors will be cold and hungry in the other world after the winter solstice. So they cut paper clothes and send them to the deceased on the winter solstice. In the old days, there was a custom of sending winter clothes on the "Cold Clothes Festival" on the first day of the tenth month of the lunar calendar. However, with the development of the times, for most Chinese people, the "Cold Clothes Festival" is no longer a festival for ancestor worship. Although your life's destiny is already determined, you can understand and grasp your future fortune in advance. Click on the [Premium Calculation] below to calculate your latest fortune! |
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