What are the requirements for Tomb-Sweeping Day to wear clothes?

Tomb-Sweeping Day generally chooses plain colors to sweep graves. Some people think that when sweeping graves, we should avoid wearing black clothes, and wear bright colors such as red or yellow, on the grounds that black clothes easily irritate Yin Qi. This view is unreasonable. In fact, wearing black clothes is more solemn and solemn, which can express grief for ancestors. It is not appropriate to wear red and green clothes when sweeping graves. This kind of clothes is not in harmony with the atmosphere of sweeping graves, and it may also appear disrespectful to the deceased, so it is better to wear plain clothes. In addition, when sweeping the grave, it is often necessary to cultivate the soil to repair the grave. If you wear too much and too complicated, you may be inflexible and clumsy. In addition, there will be plants such as Ziziphus jujuba and Pueraria lobata growing in the cemetery, which are very stinging and should not wear expensive clothes. When the grave is finished, sacrifices should be offered to burn incense, and the younger generation should kneel and kowtow to the deceased. Women wearing one-step skirts will also be awkward and inconvenient to move. Tomb-Sweeping Day's dress code for grave-sweeping.

Tomb-SweepingDay (nicknamed "Walking Youth Day", English name: Tom B-Sweeping Day) is the most important sacrifice festival in China, which is celebrated around April 5th in Gregorian calendar. China people have been polite and respectful to their ancestors since ancient times, so the tradition of Spring Festival gradually took shape during the Qingming period.

Every year in Tomb-Sweeping Day, many places will hold various commemorative activities in memory of revolutionary ancestors and war heroes. There are folk customs such as hiking, grave sweeping and ancestor worship. Tomb-Sweeping Day, Spring Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival are also called the four traditional festivals in China. Besides China, some countries and regions in the world also have Tomb-Sweeping Day, such as Viet Nam, South Korea, Malaysia and Singapore.

On May 20th, 2006, with the approval of the State Council, Tomb-Sweeping Day announced by People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Ministry of Culture was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list. The adjustment date of Tomb-Sweeping Day holiday in 2023 is: April 5, 2023, *** 1 day.