When can I worship my ancestors and sweep the grave?

Sacrifice to sweep the grave and express condolences to the deceased. As long as future generations are willing, they can sweep graves at any time.

Besides Tomb-Sweeping Day, you can also visit graves at other times. In addition to Tomb-Sweeping Day, there are also the customs of ancestor worship on the 15th day of the seventh lunar month, the Cold Food Festival (from the winter of the summer calendar to the next day 105, one or two days before Tomb-Sweeping Day), October 1st, New Year's Eve and the Double Ninth Festival.

Sweeping graves is called "respect for time" for ancestors. Its customs have a long history.

The Ming Dynasty's "A Brief Introduction to the Scenery of the Imperial Capital" reads: "On the Qingming Festival in March, men sacrificed their ancestors on the Qingming Festival, and gold ingots were hung on the back of the sedan chair, and the road was full of embarrassment. Worshipers, mourners, weeping, weeding and adding soil to graves, burning gold ingots several times and buying graves with paper money. If there is no paper money in front of you, it will be a lonely grave. After crying, don't go back, go to the fragrant tree, choose the garden, sit down and get drunk. "

As a matter of fact, grave-sweeping was spread before the Qin Dynasty, but not necessarily during Tomb-Sweeping Day, but after the Qin Dynasty. It was not until the Tang Dynasty that it became popular.

In many places in the south, such as Shanghai, Hangzhou, Putian, Dehua, Yongchun, Anxi, Chaoshan, Hainan, Kunming and other places, the customs in other parts of Fujian are different, and the time for sweeping graves is not uniform.

The whole process of sweeping graves. Including weeding the grave, cleaning up the garbage, offering flowers, offering sacrifices and other processes.