Can Tomb-Sweeping Day be buried in 2022? How did the saying of inserting willows come from?

Can Tomb-Sweeping Day be buried in 2022?

Tomb-Sweeping Day cannot be buried in 2022. We can check the calendar of the day, and we can know that Tomb-Sweeping Day is suitable for moving, decorating, entering homes, breaking ground, traveling, getting engaged and traveling in 2022; Avoid opening, construction, installation and opening. Therefore, according to the Gregorian calendar, Tomb-Sweeping Day cannot be buried on this day.

Statement by Tomb-Sweeping Day 1

There is a traditional activity of planting trees in Tomb-Sweeping Day, and there is a folk custom of inserting willows. The custom of inserting willow in Qingming Festival, some experts believe that the custom of inserting willow is to commemorate Shennong, the ancestor of farming. In some places, people put willow branches under the eaves to forecast the weather. As the old saying goes, there are clouds, willow branches and green leaves are rainy. The saying that the wicker withered the sun. Willow has a strong vitality, as the saying goes: intentional planting flowers does not make hair, unintentional planting willows into the shade. Wicker lives when it is inserted in the soil, where it is inserted, where it is inserted every year, and there is shade everywhere. This is also one of the popular sayings of the custom of inserting willows in Tomb-Sweeping Day.

Statement by Tomb-Sweeping Day 2

In ancient times, people believed that willows could ward off evil spirits. So another way of saying Qingming is to exorcise ghosts and evil spirits. Tomb-Sweeping Day, Mid-Autumn Festival and Han Festival are collectively called the three ghost festivals in some places in northern China. Influenced by the Buddhist avalokitesvara, many people think that wicker has the function of exorcising ghosts and evil spirits, and call it ghost wood. Jia Sixie of the Northern Wei Dynasty wrote in the Book of Qi Yao Min: Take Yang Liuzhi home, and a hundred ghosts will not enter the house. Because Tomb-Sweeping Day is a Ghost Festival, people insert willows and wear willows to ward off evil spirits in the season when wicker sprouts. Over time, the custom of inserting willows in Tomb-Sweeping Day has been handed down.