When can I worship my ancestors and sweep the grave?

Sacrifice to sweep the grave and express condolences to the deceased. As long as future generations are willing, they can sweep graves at any time.

Besides Tomb-Sweeping Day, you can also visit graves at other times. In addition to Tomb-Sweeping Day, there is also the custom of ancestor worship on the 15th day of the seventh lunar month, the Cold Food Festival (from winter to the future in the summer calendar 105, one or two days before Tomb-Sweeping Day), October 1st, New Year's Eve, and the Double Ninth Festival.

Grave-sweeping is called "respect for time thinking" for ancestors. Its customs have a long history.

The Ming Dynasty's "A Brief Introduction to the Scenery of the Imperial Capital" reads: "In March, in Tomb-Sweeping Day, men sacrificed their ancestors in Qingming Festival, and the road was full of embarrassment. Worshipers, mourners, weeping, weeding, adding soil to graves, burning ingots several times, and buying graves with paper money. If you can't see the paper money, it will be a lonely grave. After crying, don't go back, go to the fragrant tree, choose the garden, and sit down and get drunk. "

In fact, grave-sweeping began before Qin Dynasty, but not necessarily during Tomb-Sweeping Day, but after Qin Dynasty. It was not until the Tang Dynasty that it became popular.

In many places in the south, such as Shanghai, Hangzhou, Putian, Dehua, Yongchun, Anxi, Chaoshan, Hainan, Kunming and other places, the customs in other parts of Fujian are different, and the time of grave sweeping is not uniform.

The whole process of sweeping graves. Including sweeping graves, cleaning up garbage, offering flowers, offering sacrifices and other processes.