Generally, family banquets in Tomb-Sweeping Day are held after ancestor worship, and everyone will get together for a meal. At this time, you must remember to wash your hands and face before eating. Because the sacrifice is, after all, in a cemetery or graveyard with heavy yin, it is necessary to wash your hands and face when you come back from sweeping the grave according to the traditional custom, especially when you look in the mirror, so that you can wash away all the dust and bad luck during the sacrifice.
Many places pay attention to sending meals to their families after the sacrifice, so that everyone in the family is blessed, but this kind of offering is basically eaten up after the family dinner, and it seems unlucky to stay. There are other sacrificial supplies, so don't keep them for use after the next family dinner, but leave them at home. When offering sacrifices, wine is an essential offering. Many places pay attention to wiping tombstones with wine and offering wine in front of graves to worship ancestors. Therefore, Tomb-Sweeping Day must prepare this wine. After Tomb-Sweeping Day's sacrifice, wine should also be prepared at the family banquet, because wine has a long-term significance. However, you should drink as much wine as you want at the family dinner, and you can't leave any wine, because wine is brewed from grain, and not drinking it is a waste of grain.
"Everything is clear" is the characteristic of Tomb-Sweeping Day. Eating food with peculiar smell during sacrifice or eating food with peculiar smell in the mouth after sacrifice is inconsistent with Tomb-Sweeping Day's theme. It will be boring to open your mouth and smell on such a day. Qingming family banquet, at this time, you can't eat raw garlic, raw onions and other foods that will leave a bad smell in your mouth.