Can senior citizens over 80 years old visit graves?

Physical reasons and traditional reasons.

Old tradition: People over 70 do not visit their graves. Old people often say that people over 70 have been rare since ancient times. This is because living standards in ancient times were generally not high and medical care was quite limited, so the average life span was also short. Many people look very old after the age of 50. At that time, it was not easy for people to live over 60 years old. Living over 70 years old was considered a longevity birthday.

The reason why people do not go to their graves after they are 70 years old actually comes from this: from Feng Shui considerations, the cemeteries of ancestors are mostly located on hillsides or high field ridges. During the Qingming Festival, it almost always rains, so the road to the cemetery is mostly muddy and difficult to navigate. At that time, when people reached the age of 70, their physical fitness was already very poor, and their mental reactions were relatively slow.

In this way, the risk of going to the grave is very high: firstly, the mountain road is not easy to walk, and there are bumps on the rocks even if it is sunny, and it is muddy and difficult to walk when it rains. If something goes wrong, the gain will not be worth the loss; Second, when worshiping ancestors, it is indispensable to kneel down and worship, which will also make the elderly unable to recover for a long time. In addition, the yin energy in the cemetery is heavy, and the elderly are weak and have insufficient yang energy, which can easily cause the invasion of wind evil. For health reasons, the elderly are not suitable to participate.

Third, the legs and feet of the elderly are relatively weak. Burning paper or something in the mountains will easily cause other things to ignite if the wind blows in the wilderness. If the blow cannot be done or is not done in time, it will easily cause more fires. Big loss. So at that time, when old people wanted to visit their graves, people would always kindly remind them or stop them, saying, "If you are over 70, you should not visit the grave, and if you are over 80, you should not burn paper."