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What are the taboos in Tomb-Sweeping Day?
1, grave sweeping time in Tomb-Sweeping Day
You can visit graves during your stay in Tomb-Sweeping Day, and customs vary from place to place. For some geomantic customs, there are also some differences in time between sweeping graves for relatives who died within one year and those who died more than one year.
Generally speaking, on the day of grave sweeping, the activities of grave sweeping are completed from 7 am to 3 pm, because at this time, the yang has gradually subsided and the yin has gradually increased.
2. Pregnant women should not sweep graves.
Generally speaking, pregnant women should avoid the Qingming Festival. Strictly speaking, it's best for women not to take part in such activities when they have their period, especially after 3 pm.
3. Hair can't cover your forehead
According to the ancients, Tomb-Sweeping Day is also a "Ghost Festival". If you need friends who travel at night during this period, you must remember to bring protective mascots, such as mahogany hand beads. At the same time, show your forehead and don't cover it with your hair, because that's your destiny.
Tomb-Sweeping Day can't wear red.
Generally speaking, Tomb-Sweeping Day should wear plain clothes instead of red and purple clothes. Of course, don't wear red accessories either.
Tomb-Sweeping Day mourned the dead and bought chrysanthemums.
In ancient China, chrysanthemum was regarded as a flower of sustenance, which meant missing and homesickness. White chrysanthemums are the most suitable.
6. You need to fast before sweeping the grave.
When you start sweeping graves, you'd better not eat food to show your courtesy and respect for your ancestors.
7. People who are sick or mentally ill should not go to the grave.
On the day of grave sweeping, people who are sick or mentally ill should not go to the cemetery. In addition, pregnant women and children under the age of 6 should also carefully sweep graves.
8. Don't laugh and curse when sweeping the grave.
Don't do anything disrespectful to your ancestors, such as crossing graves, offering offerings, making loud noises, laughing and cursing, cursing, running around and touching, urinating and defecating everywhere, etc.
9. Be careful when taking photos in the cemetery.
Sacrificing ancestors is not only to commemorate ancestors, but also to sacrifice and pray. Be careful when taking photos in the cemetery, whether it's the grave sweeper himself or the grave sweeper and the cemetery. When taking pictures, it is even more taboo to take other people's graves into the camera. Pay attention to relatives sweeping graves, and don't look around.
10, visiting relatives and friends is forbidden in Tomb-Sweeping Day.
Tomb-Sweeping Day is a special memorial time, and it is unlucky to visit relatives and friends at this time.
1 1. When Tomb-Sweeping Day comes back from sweeping the grave, he has to clean himself and wash clothes.
Similar to Tomb-Sweeping Day's previous taboo of buying shoes, Tomb-Sweeping Day must clean your shoes when he comes back from the grave, and at the same time, put his toes inward, and don't forget to wash his clothes and dry them.
12, Tomb-Sweeping Day pays attention to handed down from generation to generation.
Tomb-Sweeping Day's sacrifice should pay attention to seniority, and the order is: father, mother, eldest son, eldest daughter, second son, second daughter, and so on. After the worship, the sacrifice was blessed by the ancestors, and everyone could eat or take the sacrifice.
13, avoid buying shoes during Qingming period.
Shoes are homophonic with evil. Generally, you don't buy shoes at this time. If you really need it, stagger the time to buy it. If you accidentally buy shoes on Qingming Day, you can wrap them in red paper, leave them at the door all night, and then burn the red paper early in the morning.
14, can't go home to worship.
Tomb-Sweeping Day should have been held in the cemetery in person, but for various reasons, many people can't go back to their hometown to attend the Qingming Festival, so they can also worship their ancestors at home. The method is to put sacrifices on the balcony or living room at home, face the hometown, order three incense, bow three times and recite relevant words. Then, burn money.
15, Tomb-Sweeping Day, pay attention to the words.
The important activity in Tomb-Sweeping Day is hiking, but it is especially important not to go to other people to sweep the mountains! Don't say anything unlucky, let alone disrespectful to the dead, and be careful in your activities at night.
16, outsiders should not participate in other people's grave sweeping.
It is taboo for people outside Tomb-Sweeping Day to participate in grave-sweeping, and it is easy to cause unnecessary trouble. After all, it is not a family, and different blessings may cause disorder in the gas field, leading to disharmony and bad luck.
17, grave grass must be pruned.
Plants growing on graves must be removed. The so-called grave sweeping means that you can clean up things that are not conducive to the cemetery. The vegetation on the grave will do harm to the family, including luck and health, which is greatly unfavorable.
18, it is not appropriate to add or place new objects or plant young trees in front of the grave.
From the perspective of geomantic omen, we don't advocate putting something big in front of the grave or planting some small trees. Because geomantic omen emphasizes dragons, caves, sand, water and direction, is a tomb good? The key lies in whether the good dragon soul, sand, water and peaks can be put into the grave. If a grave has good peaks or water to transport, it could have made a fortune, but out of your kindness, putting something in front of the grave or planting small trees to cover it will have a destructive effect. Therefore, these things should be kept as little as possible, and they should not be misplaced.
Tomb-Sweeping Day, why sacrifice ancestors?
1, Tomb-Sweeping Day is filial to his ancestors.
Qingming is an activity of offering sacrifices to the dead. Tomb-Sweeping Day is very important. In the eyes of China people or China people, ancestor worship is closely related to filial piety. If you don't participate in ancestor worship, you are unfilial and forget your ancestors. Qingming Festival refers to sweeping graves. Many cemeteries in Jiangnan and Jiangnan are on mountains, so they are called Chongshan. In the north, it is commonly known as sweeping graves or going to graves.
2. Is there any ethnic division in sweeping graves in Tomb-Sweeping Day?
Tomb-Sweeping Day's grave-sweeping, known as "respecting time" for ancestors, is the biggest grave-sweeping day in China. Therefore, most Han people and some ethnic minorities in China visit graves in Tomb-Sweeping Day. Some ethnic groups will hold similar activities on other days.
3. Can Tomb-Sweeping Day worship his ancestors at home?
Tomb-Sweeping Day should have been held in the cemetery in person, but for various reasons, many people can't go back to their hometown to attend the Qingming Festival, so they can also worship their ancestors at home. The method is to put worship food on the balcony or living room at home, face the hometown, light three sticks of incense, bow three times and meditate on related words. Then, burn paper money for sacrifice. Dr. Zheng reminded his friends that it was very important.
4. Why did Tomb-Sweeping Day dream about his late ancestor before?
Some people dream of their dead relatives or friends before Tomb-Sweeping Day almost every year, and even talk to him in their dreams. In fact, this has clearly told you that it is time to sweep their graves. Recently, many friends wrote to Dr. Zheng that they dreamed of their dead relatives.
5. Can members of the same family go in batches?
Generally speaking, it is best to go to the grave together, but in modern times, for various reasons, members of the same family may come from all over the world for work reasons, so they can't arrange to go to the grave on the same day, or they can go to the grave in batches.
6. Can the same person go to the graves of two families within one year?
A friend consulted Dr. Zheng: "The same person can't go to sweep the graves of two families within one year? For example, sweeping my grandmother's grave and sweeping my husband's father's grave (married) another day, can you? " In fact, this kind of situation is often encountered, and Dr. Zheng's answer is ok.
Who should avoid Tomb-Sweeping Day's grave sweeping?
1. Can a wife go to the grave after her husband dies?
There is a saying in the street that a wife can't go to the grave three years before her husband dies. This is a matter of custom, as long as we respect local customs. If there is such a local custom, it is best to avoid it, otherwise it will bring a lot of psychological troubles in the future. If there is no local custom, it has nothing to do with this taboo.
2. Can I accompany my friends to sweep the grave?
For various reasons, many people may encounter the problem of whether to accompany their friends to the grave, such as whether their girlfriends accompany their boyfriends to the grave, whether their subordinates accompany their bosses to the grave, and even whether they accompany their customers to the grave in business. Dr. Zheng thinks it is best for outsiders not to accompany them to the grave because their gas fields are different. If it is really unavoidable, then Dr. Zheng suggests that you wear a mascot to ward off evil spirits, such as mahogany hand beads, otherwise you will commit taboos.
3. Can pregnant women sweep graves in Tomb-Sweeping Day?
Generally speaking, pregnant women should avoid the Qingming Festival, not only that. Strictly speaking, it's best for women not to take part in such activities when they have their period, especially after 3 pm. Dr. Zheng reminded friends that our motherland is vast, and the custom of sweeping graves in the north and south is slightly different. For example, in the south, children usually go to the grave, and in some places in the north, daughters usually don't go to the grave. If it is a married daughter, go to the grave with her husband.
If you are in poor health or depressed, can you go to the grave?
On the day of grave sweeping, if you are in poor health or depressed, Dr. Zheng suggested not to go to the cemetery. Because it is a time of physical and mental weakness, it is easy to get into trouble after returning home. In addition, pregnant women and children under the age of 6 also carefully sweep graves.