Is it forbidden to go to graves in rural Tomb-Sweeping Day? What is the purpose of banning graves?

Is it forbidden to go to graves in rural Tomb-Sweeping Day? What is the purpose of banning graves?

Tomb-Sweeping Day is an ordinary solar term among the 24 solar terms, but Tomb-Sweeping Day is also our traditional day of folk sacrifice. Sending tickets to the Lantern Festival and sweeping graves in Tomb-Sweeping Day are traditional customs passed down by our Chinese nation.

Grave-sweeping is forbidden in Tomb-Sweeping Day now. Why? Before and after each visit to Tomb-Sweeping Day, China people will go back to their hometown in Tomb-Sweeping Day on the same day to pay homage to their ancestors and sweep their graves, expressing their grief for their ancestors. Due to this year's epidemic, grave-sweeping activities in Tomb-Sweeping Day were banned in most parts of China. Because if you sweep the grave, people will gather, which has a negative impact on the prevention and control of the epidemic. Second, Tomb-Sweeping Day's grave sweeping is to burn some paper money or something in the cemetery area. Tombs in rural areas are generally built on mountains or plains in the wild. This place is generally overgrown with weeds, and there will be many fire safety hazards. Because of this solar term in Tomb-Sweeping Day. But spring, the season when everything grows, is overgrown with weeds, and after winter, the water evaporates and dries. At this time, if there is fire, it will cause a huge fire. Before and after the Spring Festival a few years ago, most of us have heard the news broadcast of forest fires caused by ancestor worship. In addition, this year the epidemic countries issued a notice prohibiting Tomb-Sweeping Day from sweeping graves.

If the forest fire caused by Tomb-Sweeping Day's grave-sweeping eventually leads him to a detention center, it is an unworthy act. Prohibiting Tomb-Sweeping Day from sweeping graves is not only responsible for his own behavior, but also a kind of protection for the environment and ecology. Traditional festivals are traditional festivals, which we should inherit and carry forward, but further develop and change with the changes of the times. You can't restrain yourself by imitating the behavior of previous people.

With the development of Internet, our life has more convenient and quick ways. This morning's festival, we should be more creative and use the Internet to replace the traditional ancestor worship ceremony. This will not only reduce the damage to the environment, but also have little impact on our daily life because it is only a festival.