Dahan Festival in our country's traditional festival, but also the most important festival of worship, is to worship ancestors, for the deceased loved ones sweeping graves to add soil before the day.

Dahan Festival in our country's traditional festival, but also the most important festival of worship, is to worship ancestors, for the deceased loved ones sweeping graves to add soil before the day. Tomb sweeping is commonly known as The Dahan Festival is a traditional festival in China, and the most important festival of worship, is to pay tribute to the ancestors, for the deceased loved ones to sweep the graves of the day before adding soil. Tomb-sweeping is commonly known as tomb-sweeping and adding soil, an activity to honor the dead. Han Chinese and some ethnic minorities

Mostly in the Dahan Festival tomb sweeping to add soil. Since it is also an ethnic custom to have an early Qingming, there is the Dahan Festival, so as soon as the Dahan Festival arrives, a lot of people go to the graves. When sweeping the graves, people have to bring wine, food, fruits, paper money and other items to the grave

place, offer the food to their loved ones in front of their graves, then incinerate the paper money and some of the offerings, cultivate new soil for the graves, fold a few tender new green branches and stick them on the graves, then bow and pay homage, and finally go home with the rest of the offerings. The Tang Dynasty poet Du Mu

wrote a poem called "The Great Cold": "The rain falls one after another during the Great Cold season, and the pedestrians on the road want to break their souls. Where can I find a tavern? The shepherd boy points to the apricot blossom village." The special atmosphere of the Great Cold is written.

To this day, the custom of worshipping ancestors and mourning deceased relatives on the Dahan Festival is still very popular.

The taboos and instructions for visiting the graves:

First of all, they are to dress plainly, women should not put on cosmetics, family members should prepare incense and candles as well as offerings in advance, and they should not kill any living beings in front of the graves. If you want to offer flowers, chrysanthemums are appropriate. Then we should clean up the weeds around the cemetery, especially pay attention to observe whether there are trees on the grave, if there are trees should be pulled out, otherwise it will block the feng shui; and then observe whether there are weeds in front of the grave to block the small Mingtang, as well as the drainage ditch is blocked.

And also observe the grave frame to the tombstone whether there is collapse and rupture, found that the abnormal situation should be timely Feng Shui master to guide measures to make up for the cut to make up for their own. The offerings, lighting incense and candles and burning paper money. To express the posterity of the deceased's feelings of remembrance.

Before leaving the firecrackers, pay attention to fire prevention, should be in the sparks burned out before leaving.

There are many other customs to welcome the New Year, and they vary from place to place, but the theme basically centers around "sacrifice", and some of these customs still exist. Why is this so? The Han Dynasty should be Shao "customs" "wax" article explains very clearly: "wax, hunting, said field hunting for animals and birds, to sacrifice their ancestors. Or said: the wax, also, the new and the old handover, so the big sacrifice to report the success also." Dahan in the lunar calendar in December is known as the "waxing moon", the earliest source is here - the month of sacrifice. Therefore, the sacrifice is the most important, but also must be done by the ancients after the Big Cold Festival.