Why is the second day of Taigu called Tomb Sweeping Day?

A: The second day of the first month is the day of ancestor worship. If there is a funeral in my family or a relative's family for less than three years, a mourning ceremony will be held. This is called "being a second day student". On this day, it is forbidden to pay New Year greetings, especially to eat at other people's homes.

Legend has it that there were 100,000 peasants, 90,000 businessmen and 10,000 solo groups in Taigu in the Southern Song Dynasty. Taigu merchants won a reputation for Taigu, who was very rich at that time. At that time, Yue Jiajun also had a pioneer camp to protect Taigu merchants from the invasion of Mongolian Tartars. When the Mongols saw that Taigu was too rich, they were moved to kill. Suddenly, Mongolian soldiers were armed with knives and guns, killing everyone they saw and shooting everyone they saw. The scene is very tragic.

On the second day of the Lunar New Year, after Yue Jiajun won the battle, people living in the city returned to Beijing to visit relatives. It's very sad to see someone you love killed. Everyone is busy collecting bodies. Because it is the second day of the second year, we decided to designate this day as "grave-going day". Taigu people still follow the custom of grave-going on the second day to commemorate this painful history hundreds of years ago.