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Why did Tomb-Sweeping Day go to the grave ahead of schedule this year?

Tomb-Sweeping Day leap month, to sweep the grave in advance.

"The grave sweeping in Tomb-Sweeping Day should be carried out in advance in the leap month" means that if Tomb-Sweeping Day is a leap month in the lunar calendar, then the grave sweeping in Tomb-Sweeping Day will be carried out in advance in that year. Coincidentally, this year's Tomb-Sweeping Day is in February, which is rare for many years. The last appearance was in 2004, and the next one will wait until 2042.

The reason why leap month appears is because of the replacement of the lunar calendar and the solar calendar, but this year is leap February because the ancients stipulated that every month has solar terms and the atmosphere is neutral. Among them, the beginning of the month is a "solar term" and the middle of the month is a "neutral gas". If a month has only solar terms and no neutral atmosphere, then this month is incomplete and can only be counted as an affiliated month, so it is called leap month.

For example, after the vernal equinox and solar terms, there is Tomb-Sweeping Day Qi, but the month in which Tomb-Sweeping Day Qi is located is not "neutral"-Grain Rain, so this month is a leap month, which is why this year is a leap February.

Since ancient times, leap moon has been considered bad among the people. One is an incomplete month with only solar terms and no gas. Second, it is an affiliated month, because it has an extra month in a year, so the ancients thought it was unlucky. Therefore, such a month is particularly taboo, and there are many rules to pay attention to, including the saying that "the leap month does not go to the grave."

This year's Tomb-Sweeping Day falls on the 15th day of the second lunar month, which is why some old people say that they will sweep graves in Tomb-Sweeping Day in the second lunar month.

In fact, there are four schools of grave-sweeping in Tomb-Sweeping Day among the people in our country. The first is "sending in advance", that is, before Tomb-Sweeping Day arrived, he began to sweep the grave. The second is "Zhengqingming School", which was called "Zhengqingming School" by the people when Tomb-Sweeping Day visited the grave that day. This should be a custom in most places at present. In my hometown, most people visit graves in Tomb-Sweeping Day.

The third is the "delaying faction." My father-in-law in Xiangxi, their local custom is to visit the grave after Tomb-Sweeping Day. Generally, grave-sweeping begins 3-7 days after Tomb-Sweeping Day. There is also a fourth "random faction". The so-called random faction means that the day of grave sweeping is not fixed every year. They are especially dependent on whether they have time or what the weather is like.