Why can't Tomb-Sweeping Day sweep the grave today?

Because this year's Tomb-Sweeping Day is leap February, we won't visit graves in leap months, which means that some bad things may happen in Tomb-Sweeping Day this year.

Grave sweeping is not only a kind of grave sacrifice, but also a respect for ancestors, and its custom has a long history. In the north, this is called going to the grave. Some places call it sweeping mountains or offering sacrifices to mountains. In some places in the south, it is called hanging mountain or hanging paper. There are two kinds of mountains to worship: one is the ancestors who trace back from their fathers to their ancestors within three generations, which is called Jiashan, and the worship of Jiashan is called family sacrifice; The other is the ancestor worship of clan, which is called Zushan and Dazhongshan, and Zushan worship is called sweeping Dazhongshan.

Grave-sweeping refers to offering sacrifices to ancestors in the cemetery to express filial piety and yearning for ancestors, which belongs to a cultural tradition of remembering ancestors and being cautious from beginning to end. According to custom, people usually set off in the morning to visit graves. When sweeping graves, people should bring wine, food, fruit, paper money and other items to the cemetery, trim the graves, cultivate new soil, remove weeds, provide food to the graves of ancestors, then burn paper money, and then kowtow and worship.

The custom of Tomb-Sweeping Day

Tomb-Sweeping Day's customs: hiking, planting trees, flying kites, swinging, sweeping graves to worship ancestors, cuju, silkworm flower parties, inserting willows, sweeping graves, eating snails. Qingming Festival is the spring season. When everything is in bud, people have long had the custom of going to the wild for a spring outing. Going for an outing is also called a spring outing. In ancient times, it was called spring exploration.

There are three theories about the origin of the custom of inserting willows in Qingming. Some experts believe that the custom of inserting willows is to commemorate Shennong, the ancestor of farming. Another way of saying it is to exorcise ghosts and evil spirits. There is another saying that this custom is to commemorate meson push. Tomb-Sweeping Day is the best time to eat snails. Because the snail has not yet propagated at this time, it is the most plump and plump, so there is a saying that "the Qingming snail is worth a goose".