March is a good day to sweep graves.

If you want to know which day is suitable for grave sweeping in March, you need to check the almanac. It can be seen from the taboo label that there were 19 days for grave sweeping in March 2023. They are: March 4th, March 5th, March 6th, March 7th, March 8th, March 1 1, March 14, March 15, March 17 and March/kloc.

Grave-sweeping is a "grave sacrifice" and "respect for time thinking" to ancestors, and its custom has a long history. In the north, it is called going to the grave, in some places it is called "sweeping the mountain" or "offering sacrifices to the mountain", and in some places in the south it is called "hanging mountains" or "hanging paper". There are two kinds of "mountains" to worship: one is to trace the ancestors within three generations, which is called "home mountain", and the worship of home mountain is called "family sacrifice"; The other is clan ancestor worship, which is called "Zushan" and "Dazhongshan", and Zushan worship is called "Sweeping Dazhongshan".

In addition to the "mountain sacrifice" for sweeping graves, there are ancestral temple sacrifices in later generations, which are called "temple sacrifices". Temple sacrifices are closely related to ancient spring sacrifices. Although they are far apart in time, their blood is indeed the same. Temple fair sacrifice is a common gathering of clans. The custom of sweeping graves to worship ancestors existed in the pre-Qin period. Due to different ancient customs, it is not necessary for Tomb-Sweeping Day to visit graves in some places. Before the Tang Dynasty, grave-sweeping in some places in the north was mainly in the Cold Food Festival and the Cold Clothes Festival. It was not until the Tang and Song Dynasties that tomb-sweeping in Qingming began to prevail in the whole country. The Tang Dynasty was a period of integration of the custom of tomb sacrifice in different places, which followed the custom of tomb sacrifice in Qingming and extended to all parts of the country. Many places in the south sweep graves in Chongyang, Qingming or winter solstice, such as Fujian, Guangdong, Hainan, Guangxi and Kunming, Yunnan.