When will the New Tomb Autumn Festival be held in the lunar calendar in 2022?
Autumn club day in 2022: September 22, 2022, Thursday, August 17 of the lunar calendar. Autumn festival is a day to worship the land god in autumn. It began in the Han Dynasty, and later people set it on the fifth day after beginning of autumn. Social Day, also known as Social Day Festival, is a good wish to reduce natural disasters and gain a bumper harvest by offering sacrifices to social gods.
Hanging green graves and burial of newly deceased elders within three years must be carried out before the Spring Festival, commonly known as "the new grave will not leave the society". According to folk custom, a new grave that has not been swept for three years should be held before the Spring Festival. The so-called "new graves are not social." Sacrificing people who have just died is generally not called sweeping graves, but called condolences.
Since the Song Dynasty, the fifth day after beginning of spring has been regarded as a social day. When hanging up the club, flowers, tributes, drinks, incense sticks, paper money, bow or kowtow to the dead, and then set off firecrackers. At the same time, mow new graves to remove weeds and soil; Talk to the deceased relatives and express their nostalgia.
The taboo of the new grave is very special.
1. Pay attention to the time to go to the new grave.
According to folk custom, a new grave that has not been swept for three years should be held before the Spring Festival. Sacrificing people who have died less than three years ago is generally not called sweeping graves, but called condolences. Since the Song Dynasty, the fifth day after beginning of spring has been regarded as a social day around the vernal equinox, but there are also folk sayings in China, such as February 2nd, February 8th, February 12th and February 15th.
2, add the grave taboo
There are many taboos in taking soil from new graves. It is forbidden to borrow soil in the traditional orientation, which is the orientation pointed by the earthly branch in the fleeting time. We should not borrow soil in the direction of conflict with fleeting time, the soil in front of the monument and behind the grave, and the soil in the northwest, otherwise it will be disrespectful to God and ancestors.