Taboo items in Tomb-Sweeping Day

1 Don't buy, 2 don't borrow, 3 don't make, 4 don't eat.

Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as the outing festival, is the fifth solar term in spring. For agricultural production, Qingming is an important solar term, and Qingming is also an important sacrificial festival in China. It can be said that Tomb-Sweeping Day is an important moment to pay homage to the customs of ancestors and start the busy season of spring ploughing. Folk ancestors thought that Tomb-Sweeping Day's behavior would affect the health and wealth of the whole family for a whole year, so of course there are many rules and taboos to pay special attention to. The older generation summed up Tomb-Sweeping Day according to their own life experience. The ancestors paid attention to "1 don't buy, 2 don't borrow, 3 don't do, 4 don't eat" to prolong life.

The older generation thought that Tomb-Sweeping Day could not buy shoes. As the saying goes, "new shoes don't step on the old man's grave", which means you can't wear new shoes to the grave, let alone buy new shoes on this day. Because "shoes" and "evil" are homophonic, and evil refers to evil, so we should avoid them.

No marriage, just a birthday, no dirt.

Don't eat pears, sugar cane, meat or sacrifices.