What are the traditional days of going to the grave in a year?

On New Year's Eve, there have been many customs since ancient times, such as offering sacrifices to ancestors, celebrating the 30th anniversary, having a reunion dinner, posting New Year greetings and hanging lanterns, which have been passed down to this day and lasted for a long time. Influenced by Chinese culture, New Year's Eve is also a traditional festival for overseas Chinese in countries with Chinese cultural circles and around the world.

2. Tomb-Sweeping Day:

Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as outing festival, outing festival, March festival, ancestor worship festival, etc. It was celebrated at the turn of mid-spring and late spring. Tomb-Sweeping Day originated from the ancestral belief and the custom of worshipping spring in ancient times, which has both natural and humanistic connotations. It is both a natural solar term and a traditional festival. Grave-sweeping and outing are the two major themes of Tomb-Sweeping Day etiquette and customs, and these two traditional themes have been passed down from ancient times to the present in China.

3. Mid-Autumn Festival (the 15th day of the seventh lunar month)

Festival customs mainly include offering sacrifices to ancestors, setting off river lanterns, offering sacrifices to the dead, burning paper ingots and offering sacrifices to the ground. Its appearance can be traced back to ancestor worship and related festivals in ancient times. July is auspicious month and filial month, and July and a half is a folk festival to celebrate the harvest and repay the earth in early autumn.

4. Cold Food Festival (the first day of the tenth lunar month)

The traditional festivals in China are after the summer solstice 105, and one or two days before Tomb-Sweeping Day. When the first day of the day is a holiday, smoking is forbidden and only cold food is eaten. In the development of later generations, the customs of sweeping, climbing, swinging, cuju, crochet and cockfighting were gradually increased. The Cold Food Festival lasted for more than 2,000 years and was once called the largest folk festival in China. Cold Food Festival is the only traditional festival of Han nationality named after food customs.

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New Year's Eve, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Chung Yeung Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival (except Qing, Jiu and Chongqing) are the four major festivals for ancestor worship in traditional Han festivals. In ancient times, this custom was very popular. Due to different local customs and habits, the forms of ancestor worship are also different.

China people have a tradition of pursuing the future with caution, and they will never forget to worship their ancestors on holidays. In some places, while offering sacrifices to ancestors, they also offer sacrifices to the gods of heaven and earth. The offerings mainly include three sacrificial meals, three teas and five wines; At the ceremony, parents light three incense sticks, bow down, pray for a bumper harvest, and finally burn paper, commonly known as "giving money to food". Ancestor worship has existed for thousands of years, which is an ancient custom with far-reaching significance.