The qingming festivalTaboo are you clear?

Zhong mu intersection, before you, and to the qingming festival.This festival can be traced back to the zhou dynasty, has always been the people worship ancestors and grave, outing day.This is alsoThe 24 solar termsThe only one of throttle and traditional festival together.

Ching Ming festival, also known as TaQingJie, according to the Gregorian calendar, in between every year on April 4 to 6, at this point the awaken of spring thick, spring-out, is also a good time to outing for a spring outing, so the ancients had qingming outing, and carry out a series of customs sports activities.In ancient times, there is a way, is that "march festival".At the same time, the qingming festival is one of the important "8" in our country, and the New Year's eve, obon,The double ninth festivalAnd known as the four festival of ancestor worship in our country.Qingming festival throttle period is long, there are 10 8 and 10 10 two versions in the future in the future, the nearly 20 days are qingming festival.In the idea of the ancients, 108 is representative of tarsus fullness, good fortune, long and profound, the qingming festival on the 108th day after the winter solstice, there is a deep meaning.

The traditional tomb-sweeping day began about the zhou dynasty, has a history of more than two thousand five hundred years ago.The almanac: "15 days after the spring equinox, butyl, fighting for the tomb-sweeping day, when everything is clean neat and clear, when the cover when gas great, everything appears, hence the name."This is explain clear the name of reason, not only because everything begins to grow when clean bright and clean, but because of the flow at this time the sun be the spirit between heaven and earth, is also a fresh sun be the spirit, so named.

Tomb-sweeping day arrived, and rising temperatures, it is spring spring a good season, reason has "before and after the tomb-sweeping day, kind of melon beans".Qing Ming is a ancestor worship festival.In ancient times, is less important than the cold one day before the qing Ming festival.Cold food festival mainly common to the fire, don't light the fire cooking, can only eat prepared food, cold food, so the name.As to its origin, etc., and has set up a file in the former article about two had introduced, is to mourn the spring and autumn together just jie zitui.Because the two date close, after the song dynasty, two grave of vulgar gradually moved to the tomb-sweeping day.Tomb-sweeping day by a simple agricultural throttle promoted as important big festival, but have some cold food customs passed down in the form of deformation, and save in the ching Ming festival.

According to the old tradition, the grave, people to carry goods such as especially fruit, paper money to the grave, will be food for offering in the family tomb, then paper incineration, forThe graveUp new soil, fold a few branches pale green branches on the grave.Then kowtow salute worship, finally eat especially home.Tang dynasty poet tu mu in the "qingming festival" of poem, with even draw a picture of the ching Ming festival landscape character figure, in apricot blossom spring rain, in the little boy was a means, even the apricot blossom village is so famous in thousand years.

On tomb-sweeping day, ancestor worship, outing, some pay attention to must pay attention!

1, folding willow to ward off bad luck: said, in the grave, plug in the grave a few new willow branches, this is to commemorate the "leisure farm" of farming father of the emperor shen nung.In some places, people placed willow branches under the eaves, to predict the weather.Tomb-sweeping day work but also because, as the three ghost festival (the other two is half in July and October), one of is haunted by a ghost.Influenced by Buddhism, willow is believed to drive the ghost, and call it "ghost some wood", guanyin bodhisattva willow dipped in water purification purdue beings.Northern wei jia sixie qimin yaoshu load "take willow branches on the door, a ghost does not enter the house."On the occasion of the willow germination time, the tomb-sweeping day is Halloween, people naturally have willow Dai Liu to ward off bad luck.So in the grave, if conditions permit, around the cemetery, several willow trees, or a few plant conifers planted, children are grown, avoiding the centralizer ACTS of kindness.

2, tomb-sweeping day to grave, worship, most avoid is particularly bright clothes, should be in plain outfit is advisable.Don't wear red decorations.If this is your benmingnian, can wear red in there.

3, martyrs time according to the specific circumstances of themselves and their families, needing those who remind everybody is here, the best finish qingming martyrs before three o 'clock in the afternoon, because the sun be the spirit has ebbed away, Yin qi, the cemetery is the heavy shade, if the timing is bad, it is easy to incur Yin spirit.

4, whether on their own or through someone else's grave, should keep quiet, serious, don't noisy, play, or do something don't respect.Foul language out of avoid by all means.Passing the tomb should be special respect others, pay attention to the feet, do not stroll across a graveyard or others in a cemetery flowers and plants, or commenting on others tomb, otherwise would be considered blasphemy, met bad aura, more troubles will be brought home.

5, some people worry that the tomb-sweeping day. Will not bad aura to take home.In fact, as long as it is with a heart of devotion, respect, and chase away carefully to worship ancestors, don't do hurt others feelings, under normal circumstances, the problem is not big.Some luck is not very good friends, can wear kaiyun, charms, etc., can play the role of to ward off bad luck, at the same time of martyrs, to block out bad things for you.