You must know the precautions for tomb sweeping in Qingming! What are the stresses?

Qingming Festival is a cultural tradition of honoring ancestors and pursuing the future with caution, which mainly offers sacrifices to ancestors and expresses their filial piety and yearning for their ancestors. Qingming Festival can be divided into tomb sacrifice and ancestral temple sacrifice according to the different places of sacrifice. Tomb sacrifice is the most common, and the characteristic of Qingming sacrifice is tomb sacrifice. Qingming sacrifice is called grave sweeping, mainly because of the way of tomb sacrifice. Another form is ancestral temple sacrifice, also known as temple sacrifice, which means that people of a clan gather in the ancestral temple to worship their ancestors first, and then have a meeting and dinner after the sacrifice. This kind of sacrifice is a way to reunite the clansmen. [13-14] [49-5]

Before and after Qingming Festival, there were differences in different places. In Qingming Festival, according to the custom, we usually set out to visit the graves in the morning in Tomb-Sweeping Day. The ways or projects of worshipping Qing vary from place to place. The common practice consists of two parts: one is to renovate the tomb, and the other is to hang paper money and offer sacrifices. When sweeping the grave, the grave should be renovated first. The main methods are to remove weeds, cultivate new soil, and then kowtow and worship. On the one hand, this kind of behavior can express the sacrifice's filial piety and care for the ancestors. On the other hand, in the belief of the ancients, the graves of ancestors have a great relationship with the prosperity and misfortune of future generations, so cultivating tombs is a memorial content that cannot be ignored. The sacrifices offered are mainly food, and the varieties are different from place to place. They are all delicious food that the local people think and can take out according to the economic ability of the sacrifices, or special food that is in season.