What clothes is suitable for Tomb-Sweeping Day?

It is more appropriate for Tomb-Sweeping Day to wear dark or plain clothes.

Tomb-Sweeping Day's simple dress will give people a solemn feeling, a respect for the dead, and a memory of the dead. Common clothes are black, white and gray, so you can choose according to your actual needs. Sweeping graves is a serious matter. In order to coordinate the atmosphere of sweeping graves, avoid wearing bright colors, such as red, green, purple and bright yellow.

In addition, Tomb-Sweeping Day often needs to repair the grave and do some work when sweeping the grave. Moreover, the location of the grave is generally remote, and there are some plants on the road, which can easily cut the skin. It is inconvenient to wear a skirt, and some actions may even be awkward. Therefore, Tomb-Sweeping Day doesn't recommend wearing skirts when sweeping graves, and tries to wear pants.

The cultural connotation of Tomb-Sweeping Day;

Compared with other festivals, Tomb-Sweeping Day has three unique features. First, it has the dual identity of solar terms and festivals. Second, mainly engaged in grave sweeping, hiking, willow insertion, cuju, flying kites and other outdoor activities. Thirdly, it contains two kinds of emotional atmosphere: solemnity during grave sweeping and joy during outing. It is an important traditional Spring Festival in China, and it is a fine tradition of the Chinese nation for thousands of years to remember our ancestors by sweeping graves.

This is not only conducive to promoting filial piety, awakening family memories, but also conducive to promoting the cohesion and identity of family members and even the nation. At the same time, Tomb-Sweeping Day is a combination of natural solar terms and humanistic customs, and it is the unity of harmony between man and nature, which embodies the ancestors' pursuit of the harmonious unity of "heaven, earth and man", pays attention to conforming to the harmony between man and nature and follows the laws of nature.