What are the taboos during Qingming Festival?
1. Qingming Festival Feng Shui taboos
1. Pregnant women should not sweep graves. Generally, women do not participate in grave sweeping activities, and pregnant women should avoid it. In addition, women on leave, pregnant women, patients, and children under 7 years old should not go to the mountain to visit tombs. If you go, it is best to bring amulets.
2. It is not advisable to bring Yin energy home during the Qingming Festival
When sweeping tombs during the Qingming Festival, you must have a peaceful and stable mind, respect the ancestors, and pay tribute to the deceased around you. Be respectful and don't litter, spit, etc. in the cemetery area. Don't eat in the tomb area, and don't play or laugh between lovers.
After coming back from the cemetery, it is recommended that you go to a popular supermarket first and then go home. A strong aura in crowded places can dispel bad emotions in the heart, eliminate all kinds of negative information, and make one feel cheerful; people who are usually easily affected by external information or people who are timid, weak, or have low luck can also Use the brazier method to deal with yin energy and eliminate negative information. The specific method is to prepare a few pieces of gold and silver paper "bought at money paper shops" before going out, put them in a stainless steel basin, and when you get home, light the paper and let people walk over the burning paper. After returning from tomb sweeping during the Qingming Festival, you should take a shower, change your clothes, and clean your shoes. This can drive away Yin Qi.
3. It is not advisable to wear bright red and green clothes during Qingming Festival.
Be neatly dressed when sweeping tombs. To show courtesy and respect to the ancestors. Wearing dark and black clothes is solemn and solemn. It is not suitable to wear bright red and green clothes, which are inconsistent with the atmosphere of tomb sweeping. Plain or white clothes are suitable.
When sweeping a tomb, you should concentrate on it, do not look around, do not look closely at other people's tombs, step on other people's tombs, or comment on other people's tombs. It is not appropriate to take photos in the cemetery. Doing so is not only disrespectful to one's ancestors, but also creates a nuisance to nearby spirits. Maybe go home in trouble.
4. Pay attention to the feng shui of your ancestors’ cemeteries
When sweeping tombs during Qingming Festival, you need to pay attention to the changes in the feng shui of your ancestors’ cemeteries. Weeds and trees on the tomb should be removed. If the tomb bag is found to be damaged, new soil needs to be added or repaired. The tombstone should also be kept clean.
5. Tomb-sweeping time during Qingming Festival. It is best to choose tomb-sweeping time when the yang energy is relatively strong, that is, after 9 a.m. to before p.m. The best time is to complete the Qingming Mountain worshiping activity before three p.m., because At this time, the yang energy has gradually subsided and the yin energy has gradually increased. If you are a person with low fortune or weak health, offering sacrifices in the evening when the yin energy is heavy may affect your fortune. It can be done five days before and after Qingming Festival, or on the day of Qingming Festival, but grave sweeping is not allowed on the Cold Food Festival, which is the first day of Qingming Festival.