What's so particular about sweeping graves?

China people sweep graves mainly to remember their ancestors, pay homage to them, inspire future generations, and inherit and carry forward fine traditions.

China people cautiously pursue the future and worship their ancestors. Zeng Shen, a disciple of Confucius, said in the Analects of Confucius: Be cautious in pursuing the future, and the people's morality will return to the thick! Take the sacrificial ceremony seriously and remember and respect the deceased ancestors. Grave-sweeping is a ritual.

China people believe in ghosts and gods, and believe that people have souls after death, so the souls of ancestors will return at the peak of Yin Qi in the Great Cold Festival.

"Zhou Li Chun Guan Dalusi": "It is to play the yellow bell, sing Dalu, and dance the cloud gate to worship the gods."

In the pre-Qin period, Qu Yuan wrote "Chu Ci evokes the soul": "Wu Liu, play more."

Huang Lu belongs to twelve falu.

The twelve-stringed instrument was interpreted as music by later generations, but the seven-stringed instrument originally promulgated the calendar through twelve chimes to show respect for the people, that is, when to do something. For example, tell farmers when to sow and when to sow. For example, the students' class bell rings, the class bell rings, the rest bell rings and the wake-up bell rings. And the road is a time to sacrifice ancestors to sweep graves.

Because the twelve fathoms regularly follow the seasonal order of the four seasons, that is, the twelve fathoms match the twenty-four solar terms.

According to the Book of Changes, the solstice in winter is sunny, the twelve laws are yellow bells, and the sixty-four hexagrams are my complex. And the twelfth lunar month is completely cold, the dharma is great, and the sixty-four hexagrams are the ground. In the first month, the rain was born for three days, and the rhythm was too cluster. Sixty-four hexagrams were heaven and earth. Therefore, spring has come, and it is said that Sanyang will open Thailand.

Only the emperor or the king can issue this order. In modern archaeology, the emperor or king must have dug up these twelve bells in the tomb. Twelve bells chimed by others is the punishment of nine families.

The solstice of winter is a sunny day, and the law is a yellow bell. It is cold on the second day of the twelfth lunar month, and the dharma is great. The yellow bell rings on the winter solstice of the winter month, which is a sacrifice to heaven and earth, and the great cold of the twelfth month is a sacrifice to ancestors.

The twelve rhythms are distributed according to yin and yang, each with six yin and six yang, and yin and yang are born together. Huang Zhong's "menstruation Hakka Cluster" is not a positive shot, but his "Nanlu" and "Jiazhong" are yin, which is the peak of his spirit and the return of his soul.

"Hanshu": "Dalu: Lu, line also, big words. The Great Cold is the last solar term in a year, with the largest number of Yin Qi and the return of the soul.

There are two main procedures for ancestor worship: ancestor worship at home and ancestor worship at the grave.

So sweeping graves on the Great Cold Festival.

However, with the evolution of astronomical calendar and the change of historical dynasties, the custom of sweeping graves in the cold has evolved into Qingming, but there are still few places where this custom has survived. Hakka people worship in Spring and Autumn, that is, they visit graves twice a year, in Tomb-Sweeping Day in spring, and in Chung Yeung Festival in autumn (this is a Taoist festival, not a 24-solar term). In my hometown, there is a village named Wan. They sweep graves on New Year's Eve.

Some places don't choose auspicious days, but build graves on the Great Cold Festival, thinking that the souls of ancestors can do whatever they want when they come back to guard them. Everything is going well.