The twelfth lunar month is a day suitable for sacrifice.

The twelfth lunar month is suitable for sacrifice as follows:

There are 17 days in the lunar calendar in 2022, namely:

The first day of the twelfth lunar month, the fourth day of the twelfth lunar month, the seventh day of the twelfth lunar month, the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, the tenth day of the twelfth lunar month, the fifteenth lunar month, the sixteenth lunar month, the eighteenth lunar month, the twentieth lunar month, the twenty-first lunar month, the twenty-fifth lunar month, the twenty-sixth lunar month, the twenty-seventh lunar month and the twenty-eighth lunar month. You can choose the best memorial day from them.

Alias for ancestor worship in the twelfth lunar month:

The twelfth lunar month ancestor worship alias one:

Sacrificing ancestors, commonly known as going to the grave, is an activity to sacrifice the deceased. There are many places in China that pay attention to visiting graves, usually on the anniversary of death, the fifteenth day of the first month, Tomb-Sweeping Day, the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month, the first day of October, New Year's Eve or the third day of the first lunar month.

The younger generation should prepare sacrificial supplies (including cigarettes, wine, steamed bread, incense, paper money, firecrackers, wreaths, etc.). ) and sacrifice in front of the tomb of the deceased to show the feelings of future generations for the older generation.

The twelfth lunar month ancestor worship alias 2:

Grave-sweeping is a kind of "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 mountains" or "worshipping mountains"; in the south, it is called "hanging mountains" or "hanging paper".

There are two kinds of "mountains" for offering sacrifices: one is called "home mountain" for tracing ancestors within three generations, and the sacrifice of home mountain is called "family sacrifice"; The other is the worship of clan ancestors, which is called "Zushan" and "Dazhongshan", and the worship of Zushan is called "sweeping Dazhongshan".

The twelfth lunar month ancestor worship alias three:

Hanging a grave or sweeping a grave means that before hanging paper, people first check whether the grave has been punched by pikas and collapsed. After adding soil to the grave and weeding, they offered sacrifices such as knives and candy, and burned money to melt paper.

Hakkas hang paper carefully. They first dug a piece of green turf with a hoe and put a stack of yellow paper dripping with chicken blood on the grave with turf. Then, put twelve pieces of silver paper around the grave. In addition to the purpose of hanging tomb paper, there is also a symbol of blood sacrifice. Finally, the people cut white paper into paper strings and hung them in front of the grave, commonly known as hanging green.