Do you want to sweep the grave on the winter solstice of 202 1? What's the difference between sweeping graves in Tomb-Sweeping Day?

202 1 Do you want to go to the Sunday grave?

1. According to the custom, graves can be swept on the winter solstice of 202 1. If family members pay more attention to this aspect, they can choose to worship their ancestors on this day. For example, in Shaoxing, Xinchang and other counties in Zhejiang, most ancestors' graves are swept from winter to Sunday, and soil is added to the graves to weed and repair the foundation, so as to break ground for this day, otherwise it may be a disaster. In Jiangxi and Changning, Hunan, they also go to the grave on the solstice in winter, and the ceremony is the same as Qingming. In Inner Mongolia, the solstice in winter is called Ghost Festival, and people will take incense paper to sweep graves.

2. According to the Gregorian calendar, the winter solstice of 202 1 is not an auspicious day for grave-sweeping, and it is not suitable for doing anything, especially for traveling. It is best not to choose to sweep graves on this day.

There are two ways to sweep graves from winter to Sunday. You can choose according to your own situation, not to mention other factors such as weather. What's the difference between the solstice in winter and sweeping graves in Qingming?

Tomb-Sweeping Day talent

Adding graves is because people in China have emphasized burial since ancient times. The soil on the graves is easily eroded by wind and rain, and will become shorter and shorter until it disappears, and some will even be dug down by small animals.

The sunken grave is filled with soil again, just like the living, the house is old and broken and needs to be repaired. Only the Qingming day can break ground, and other times can't disturb the world of relatives. Adding soil to the grave is also to show the prestige of our ancestors in exchange for their protection for future generations.

There is also a saying about the time of adding soil. It is said that three consecutive days in Tomb-Sweeping Day are called one hundred and fifty, Cold Food Festival and Tomb-Sweeping Day respectively. When to add soil and when to go to the grave is very particular.

The day from beginning of winter in the first year to One Happy and Fifty is exactly150th day, which is called One Happy and Fifty. One hundred and fifty, swallowing soil. On the day of One Happy and Fifty, the swallows came back from the south and began to build their nests with mud. Tomb-Sweeping Day's emphasis on going to the grave is, 150, adding soil. On the morning of one hundred and fifty, men took shovels to their ancestors' graves to add soil.

There is also a saying that "the first three are followed by four", which means that Tomb-Sweeping Day had better go to the grave to burn paper and add soil three days before or four days after. One theory is that there are many people burning paper on graves in Tomb-Sweeping Day, and the coins burned are easy to be lost. Besides, the road to the underworld in the first three days will not be too crowded, and the dead relatives can also get Mingbi quickly.

Send warm clothes to the winter solstice

Generally, paper-cut clothes are made for men and women in winter until recently, and sent to the ancestral base for incineration in winter until recently, commonly known as sending cold clothes.

The winter solstice is the shortest day and the longest night in the northern hemisphere. Winter solstice, although the shortest day, but the temperature is not the lowest. It won't be very cold before the winter solstice, because there is still heat accumulation on the surface. The real winter is after the winter solstice.

In China, there is a saying that birds of a feather flock together. Therefore, the living descendants are worried that their dead ancestors will not be warm or cold in the winter to the future in another world, so they cut out paper clothes and pants and give them to the dead in the winter to the sun.

In the old society, there was a custom of sending cold clothes on the first day of the tenth lunar month, but with the development of the times, the Cold Clothes Festival is no longer a festival to worship ancestors for most people in China.