March is a good day to sweep graves.

If you want to know which day is suitable for sweeping graves in March, you need to look up the yellow calendar. As can be seen from the taboo label, there were 19 days for grave sweeping in March 2023. They are: March 4th, March 5th, March 6th, March 7th, March 8th, March 1 1, March 14, March 15, March 17, March/.

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".

In addition to the "mountain sacrifice" for sweeping graves, there are ancestral temple sacrifices in later generations, which are called "temple sacrifices". Temple sacrifices are closely related to ancient spring sacrifices. Although they are far apart in time, their blood is indeed the same. Temple fair sacrifice is a gathering of clans. The custom of sweeping graves to worship ancestors existed in the pre-Qin period. Due to different ancient customs, it is not necessary for Tomb-Sweeping Day to visit graves in some places. Before the Tang Dynasty, grave-sweeping in some places in the north was mainly in the Cold Food Festival and the Cold Clothes Festival. It was not until the Tang and Song Dynasties that tomb-sweeping in Qingming began to prevail in the whole country. The Tang Dynasty was a period of integration of the custom of tomb sacrifice in different places, which followed the custom of tomb sacrifice in Qingming and extended to all parts of the country. Many places in the south sweep graves in Chongyang, Qingming or winter solstice, such as Fujian, Guangdong, Hainan, Guangxi and Kunming, Yunnan.