Can Tomb-Sweeping Day burn incense?

Tomb-Sweeping Day is just behind the cold food. The ancients paid more attention to the Cold Food Festival than today, and Qingming is a solar term, just a day included in the Cold Food Festival. Later, in the Song Dynasty, people from many cities went out to sweep graves in Tomb-Sweeping Day. Dream of China in Tokyo, a posthumous work of the Northern Song Dynasty, contains: "Tomb-Sweeping Day and Hideki visited graves", among which Tomb-Sweeping Day was the most prosperous. Successive dynasties have followed this custom, and today, people associate Tomb-Sweeping Day with the custom of sweeping graves to worship ancestors.

Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as the "outing festival", means a good time for a spring outing. Tomb-Sweeping Day went to the suburbs to visit the grave to worship his ancestors. At this time, it is already over half of spring, and everything is thriving in Wan Li. Therefore, since ancient times, the custom of going for an outing in Tomb-Sweeping Day has been combined. Not only adults, children and men, but also women who seldom go out on weekdays can put on new shoes to go for an outing, explore spring and seek spring.

"Inserting willows" is not only a cold food, but also a custom in Tomb-Sweeping Day. People put willows on portals and graves and put wicker ornaments on their heads, which spread to thousands of households in the Song Dynasty. It is also said that this custom of inserting willows and the Cold Food Festival originated from the historical events of Jin Wengong and Jiezitui in the Spring and Autumn Period, but they are not recorded in the official records. Willow cultivation can grow whether it is inserted backwards or directly, and it has strong vitality. Some people also say that willow branches have the function of ward off evil spirits. There is a saying in the Song Dynasty: "If you don't wear willow in Qingming Festival, beauty will be the first." The old finger means to fold the new willow on the head during Qingming, which can keep people young all the time.