Why should we bury our ancestors on the first day of New Year's Day?

The custom of ancestor worship on New Year's Day has spread all over the country where Han people live in concentrated communities, but it is concentrated in Sichuan, Guizhou and Yunnan.

There is a difference between going to the grave on New Year's Day and worshipping ancestors in Tomb-Sweeping Day. More accurately, it is "inviting ancestors to celebrate together".

In some areas where this custom is well preserved, on the afternoon of New Year's Eve, you should bring incense to your ancestors' graves and respectfully invite them home for the New Year. Then, on New Year's Day, you should take the money paper for offering and send your ancestors back to the cemetery to worship and say goodbye.

The moral is that in the most festive festival of the year, we will not forget the gratitude of our ancestors and celebrate the festival together.

Therefore, people in some areas call going to the grave on the first day of New Year's Day "ancestor worship", and Tomb-Sweeping Day's grave sweeping is called "going to the grave".