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Can Tomb-Sweeping Day decorate the house?

Tomb-Sweeping Day can't decorate the house.

The ancients said, to do things in the right time, in the right place and in harmony with people, to choose a good day is to choose a good day. However, before and after Tomb-Sweeping Day, when Sha Qi was very heavy, if we broke ground to build houses, it would bring bad influence. Before and after the Qingming Festival, you can break ground to repair the graves of your ancestors, which is the so-called "yin house", while the Yang house where people live is not suitable for breaking ground to build houses before and after the Qingming Festival.

During the Qingming period, it rained in succession, and the wood and soil were wet. The humidity in Tomb-Sweeping Day is high, so it is easy to get sleepy in spring, which will bring some inconvenience to the decoration work and is not conducive to improving work efficiency. In this month of Tomb-Sweeping Day, time, labor and climate are not conducive to construction and decoration. Therefore, the ancients gradually established a convention not to build houses or decorate them during the Qingming period.

Customs and phenomena in Tomb-Sweeping Day;

Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as the Walking Festival, is a traditional festival at the turn of midsummer and late spring in China, namely 108 from the winter solstice, and it is also one of the most important sacrificial festivals, and it is a day to worship ancestors and sweep graves. Tomb-Sweeping Day, a traditional Chinese nation, began in the Zhou Dynasty and has a history of more than 2,500 years.

After Tomb-Sweeping Day replaced the Cold Food Festival, the customs of ancestor worship, grave sweeping and spring outing were also replaced. Tomb-Sweeping Day, Spring Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival are also called the four traditional festivals in China. Tomb-Sweeping Day has two themes, one is to respect ancestors, cherish the memory and pursue the future, and the other is to go for an outing and get close to nature. During the Tang and Song Dynasties, Tomb-Sweeping Day merged the customs of Cold Food Festival and Shangsi Festival, which had rich cultural connotations.