Is there anything particular about going to the grave on New Year's Day?

Choose the right time to worship your ancestors.

1. Worship ancestors and sweep graves: First of all, it should be explained that going to the grave on New Year's Day is different from sweeping graves in Tomb-Sweeping Day. The most basic difference is that ancestor worship is an important folk activity in the Spring Festival, which can be carried out with colleagues who worship God. Tomb-Sweeping Day's grave-sweeping is only a grave-sweeping, and has nothing to do with offering sacrifices to gods and buddhas. If you offer sacrifices at home on the first day of the New Year, you can put sacrificial tables, offerings, incense sticks and incense sticks in front of the niches dedicated to genealogy and ancestral tablets (ancestral statues).

2. Sacrifice when the sun is shining: the time to go to the grave is different in every place, which can be New Year's Eve or New Year's Day. On the first day of the new year, we worship our ancestors and celebrate the new year together. The custom of going to the grave on this day is concentrated in Yunguichuan and other places. You can't go to the grave too early or too late. It is best to choose between 9 am and 3 pm, when the sun is stronger. If life is weak, you can wear amulets or let people with strong yang accompany you to worship your ancestors.

3. Burn paper carefully: when you go to the grave on the first day of the New Year's Day, you should help your ancestors clean up the weeds around the cemetery and observe whether the tombstone frame is damaged. If you need a weak repair, please ask the Feng Shui master to guide you to take measures to make up for it. The last step of worship is to burn paper money and sprinkle vegetarian wine. The whole process of worship must be serious, and there must be no fighting when burning paper money. This is not only a reverence for ancestors and deities, but also a sense of fire safety. You must insist on watching the paper burn out before you can go, which can not only prevent fire, but also prevent the wind from blowing the paper out and being picked up by other passers-by, making the old people unhappy.