Tomb-sweeping day is the most basic principle

On April 4, is this yearThe qingming festivalThat horse.

The Gregorian calendar every year on April 4 to 6 between for tomb-sweeping day, is one of the important traditional folk festival in our country, in 2006 was listed in the first batch of state-level non-material cultural heritage list.Was formally established in 2008 for the holiday.Tomb-sweeping day began about the zhou dynasty, has a history of more than two thousand five hundred years.

However, during the tomb-sweeping day, and taboo to avoid some taboos, tomb-sweeping day 36 mo ignore the most basic principle:

1, the qingming festival ritual is filial ancestor

Sacrifice to the deceased qingming festival is a kind of activity.Qingming festival ritual is very important.In Chinese or in Chinese eyes, ancestor worship and filial piety is bound together.If you are not to participate in the ancestor worship, is a not filial piety, a man forget ancestors.

Qingming festival worship the mountain refers to the grave, jiangnan and southern cemetery in the mountains, and so on is called worship the mountain.Known as grave or the northgrave。

2, the tombs have points of the nation

Tomb-sweeping day, the ancestral worship "of" thought, is the day when China's largest ancestor worship and the grave.So our country the han nationality and some minority are mostly in the tombs.Some people will have similar activity in other days.

3, tomb-sweeping day usually program

According to custom, the order of the martyrs is the first to the grave, is to clean up the cemetery.

The second is the sacrifice, the program is the key, it is to show their grief, the second is with their feeling, for mountain spirit without the Lord, their Lord without spirit, with their feeling can be better sensitivity of mountains and rivers.

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 graveNew soil and dressing up the tomb, fold a few branches pale green branches inserted in the grave, but also in the above some paper money, and let other people see, know the grave there are future generations, then kowtow salute worship.After drinking with feasts;Also can fly a kite, and even match each other, for related activities.Women andThe childAre also approached some willow, steam will remove offerings with wicker to wear.Others circle the wicker basket, put on his head, "" qingming festival is not Dai Liu, - yellow dog".

Namely: fixed on cemetery - lighting - meat - toast - worship offering - shooting off...

4, tomb-sweeping day, the sooner the better

Here involves two questions:

First, is the time before and after the tomb-sweeping day the grave or all can?The sooner the better?Dr Zheng think that as long as during the qingming festival, look at ourselves.Everywhere, of course, there are some local custom, we have to respect the custom.Also, for some customs, to the family grave and died a year to have passed away for more than a year to family grave, also some differences on time.Dr Zheng remind friends to abide by the local customs to do.

Second, the grave on the specific departure time as soon as possible?

The answer is not at all, also need according to their own situation.Ancient is in 5 to 7 points, namely MaoShi, namely the ancient calendar, for one.Of course, it usually won't be so early, but, Dr Zheng remind friends, best completed before three o 'clock in the afternoon the tomb-sweeping day worship the mountain, because the sun be the spirit has gradually faded, Yin qi grow, if the person was low, it is easy to will incur Yin spirit with or harassment.

5,pregnancyWomen can tomb-sweeping day to grave

Usually pregnant women worship the mountain to avoid qingming festival activities, not only that.Strictly speaking, the female menstruation, also had better not to participate in such activities, particularly not worship the mountain in qingming festival activities after three o 'clock in the afternoon.Dr Zheng remind friends: our motherland vast territory, the custom of the north and the south to grave is slightly different, such as: southern usually children were heading to the grave, and the north some areas, is usually the daughter don't go to the grave, if the daughter is married her husband to the grave.

6, ching Ming festival to worship the ancestors at home

Qingming martyrs ceremony should be held personally went to the cemetery, but due to various reasons, many people couldn't return to the tomb-sweeping day worship the mountain, you can also worship the ancestors at home.Method is the balcony at home or sitting room, home direction, place of worship with food, three incense burning, bowed three times and silently and related words.And then, burn money worship.Dr Zheng to remind my friends this is very important.

7, ching Ming festival mourn the dead right what to buy a flower

Is usually a chrysanthemum, because our country ancient times the chrysanthemum as their flower, have the meaning of miss and miss.White chrysanthemum is the most appropriate, also can match some green grass, such as lily, green leaves, carnations, etc., will be more beautiful.Chrysanthemum yellow chrysanthemums have longevity, suit to see the patient.

8, tomb-sweeping day morning why want to see your forehead

Before tomb-sweeping day in the morning, wash gargle, mirror to see his forehead, and see if there are any black color, if you have said was low, it is advisable to avoid the grave on that day as far as possible;If must go, can take their jade, mahogany, etc., to resolve.

9, grave to fast before

Best fasting before grave: when you start grave, you'd better not eat food or vegetarian, politeness and respect for ancestors.This article, Dr Zheng thinks is important, but for some friends may need to compromise.

10 and sweep grave can casual dress?

Can't.To respect the dead, grave should be formal dress, thoughts and words and deeds.Usually they had grave when dark clothes and dress neatly, look solemn as appropriate.

11 incense to the god of land, grave why need

Incense from the grave, in addition to the ghost Qiang, flowers, fruit, paper money, such as wine and ancestors living like to eat (sacrificial gift amount optional), put in the grave, burning incense, incense to look after the cemetery land, mountain because of mountain land is the patron saint of the graveyard.Since then is respectfully to ancestors worshiped shakily, a bunch of flowers and burning ghost Qiang, libation (soon spilled wine on the ground, it represents a toast) to the ancestor, to rise, can dinner drinking, after the stay point of incense can leave.

12, why can not enlighten questions when the grave

Because the cemetery is the place of Yin spirit of housing, should not cross the tomb and offerings, loudly, enlighten questions, foul language, hurl touch, urinate everywhere, doing so not only is not respect to their ancestors, and nearby spirit constitute a nuisance.

13, why be careful in their cemeteries photography

In China, the ancestor worship is not just to commemorate ancestors, but clearly with the undead worship, pray for the mean.Special remind friends: cautious in their cemeteries photography, whether visitors pose itself, or visitors to take picture with the graveyard.More taboo picture will other graves into pictures.Otherwise, your chart is likely to drop, imbalances in all respects.So to the family grave to devotion, don't look in all directions, especially not to take pictures in the graveyard.

Have a friend said: "the first three years of a grave, because do not understand, in a photo of the cemetery, the ancients besides visitors their photo, I also with trick-or-treaters graveyard, and the picture will be other graves in the pictures.Ask Dr Zheng, I put the photos deleted can remedy the evil-eye caused so?"Dr Zheng thinks, in addition to delete or destroy these photos, best burned incense at the door, please go out of the bad "gas".