Feng Shui tips for sweeping tombs during the Qingming Festival, don’t sweep away your luck
Qingming Festival is one of the traditional festivals in my country. It is a festival to worship ancestors, and the traditional activity is tomb sweeping. Most filial sons and grandsons will go to the cemetery, crematorium or columbarium to perform worship ceremonies to express their grief, commemoration and memory of their ancestors. So when is the best time to visit the grave? What are the taboos about visiting graves during Qingming Festival?
The best time to visit tombs
When it comes to the time to visit tombs during the Qingming Festival, some people say "early Qingming Festival and eleven in the evening", others say "seven before and eight after Qingming", and still others say It is said that one should not visit graves on the day before Qingming Festival.
In some places, gravesite visits are held on Qingming Day, because women who get married on Qingming Day have to come back to visit their parents’ graves. Her brother is going to entertain her. "Early in the Qingming Festival, late at the eleventh hour" means that during the Qingming Festival, people go to the graves before 12 o'clock and then come back to eat after visiting the graves; on the eleventh day, they go to the graves after lunch. Some people also say that people visit graves during the Qingming Festival, usually before the Qingming Festival, or burn paper on the day of the Qingming Festival. Legend has it that at that time, one hundred pieces of paper were burned for two hundred pieces.
On Qingming Day, you should visit the grave earlier, usually before ten o'clock in the morning.
There is such a folk legend that the underworld collects ghosts on Qingming day, and does not give ghosts a holiday until the first day of October in the lunar calendar. Therefore, when visiting the grave after the Qingming Festival, or before October 1st, the ghost of the deceased has not yet had a holiday and cannot come out to collect the paper money burned to it. Therefore, the time to visit graves during Qingming Festival should be before Qingming Festival, not after.
What are the taboos about visiting graves during Qingming Festival?
One: Avoid wearing bright red and purple
To respect the deceased, you should dress solemnly when visiting the grave. Generally speaking, when sweeping a tomb, you should wear dark clothes, preferably not red or purple, and your clothes should be neat and your expression should be solemn and solemn.
Two: The regular order is irreversible
There is a sequence for sweeping tombs and offering sacrifices, and many older people will pay great attention to this. Generally, the cemetery or cemetery is cleaned first and then the sacrifices are made. Since sacrifices are very particular about feng shui and etiquette, there should be no mistakes in the sequence as much as possible. The sequence is as follows: amend the cemetery - burn incense - serve meat - toast - worship - farewell.
Three: Do not eat and worship while sweeping the tomb
In the tomb-sweeping etiquette handed down from ancient times, fasting should be done before sweeping the tomb. However, for people with the accelerated pace of modern life, , it is not realistic to worship on an empty stomach. If you really want to eat, the diet should be light, avoid big fish and meat, and should not eat too much. If you discharge dirty air from the body when sweeping the tomb, it is also a sign of disrespect for the deceased; in addition, regardless of whether How hungry you are? Don't chew food in your mouth when sweeping the grave. This will only highlight your careless ignorance.
Four: Do not buy shoes if your hair does not cover your forehead
In fact, Qingming Festival is also regarded as the Ghost Festival. Of course, you need to pay attention to your hairstyle, especially your hair cannot cover your forehead. It is the magic lamp of the human body and cannot be covered. At the same time, don't buy shoes on that day, because shoes are associated with evil spirits. Most friends with some common sense will not buy shoes on this day to avoid being unlucky.
Five: Avoid scolding and criticizing ancestors
When some people are sweeping the graves, in order to relax and joke with each other, it is not only disrespectful to the deceased, but also causes serious harm to the deceased. Criticism. Passing by other people's graveyards and commenting on the deceased is an act of blasphemy and will cause trouble
Six: Do not take photos in the cemetery
The purpose of sweeping graves is to worship ancestors, and Not for fun. There are gods three feet above your head. When you sweep the grave, you'd better be respectful and attentive. Never take photos in the cemetery, or even take photos casually. Otherwise, you will attract a bad aura, and there is a possibility of imbalance of yin and yang, which will harm the individual. fortune.
Seven: Outsiders should not participate in other people’s tomb sweeping
During the Qingming Festival, it is taboo to participate in tomb sweeping as an outsider, and it is easy to cause unnecessary trouble. After all, we are not a family, and each has different blessings, which may cause chaos in the aura, leading to disharmony and bad luck.
8: Grass growing on graves must be trimmed
Plants growing on graves must be removed and must not be allowed to grow.
This is the most important thing. You must know that the so-called grave sweeping means that you clean things that are not good for the cemetery. The vegetation on the grave will cause harm to the members of the family, including luck and health, which are very detrimental.
Nine: Pregnant women should avoid tomb-sweeping activities
Pregnant women should avoid tomb-sweeping activities during the Qingming Festival. This is not only due to the heavy yin energy. From other aspects, the Qingming Festival is very crowded. For the safety of the fetus, pregnant women are not recommended to participate. Moreover, the atmosphere of tomb sweeping and the surrounding environment are not good for the health of pregnant women. In addition, women should avoid such activities if they have their period.
Paying homage to ancestors and sweeping their graves during the Qingming Festival is a concrete manifestation of the Chinese nation’s moral character of being cautious about the end and pursuing the past, adhering to family ties, and practicing filial piety. Since ancient times, sweeping tombs during Qingming Festival is not only to commemorate one's ancestors, but also to commemorate people who have made contributions to the people and done good deeds in history. Visiting the tombs of martyrs and monuments to revolutionary martyrs during the Qingming Festival has become a good form of education on revolutionary traditions. Above, I would like to remind you in advance what you need to pay attention to when sweeping tombs during the Qingming Festival, so that everyone can worship properly.