Things to prepare for the Qingming Festival

The things you need to prepare for the Qingming Festival are: joss sticks and paper money, fashionable offerings, wine, food and fruits, flowers, and packages.

1, joss sticks and paper money

Joss sticks and paper money are the traditional offerings that are necessary for the Qingming Tomb Sweeping. In addition to lighting incense and candles in front of the tomb to remember the ancestors, but also to the nearby mountain God land incense, praying for the mountain God land to guard the cemetery, blessing the deceased; traditional paper money, gold treasure burned to the deceased, so that they have money to spend on the netherworld, be sure to burn clean.

2, fashionable offerings

With the improvement of material conditions, the country's choice of sacrificial offerings have evolved with the times, and some of the new wave of offerings began to popularize, such as luxury cars and villas, airplanes and boats and other high-grade offerings, would like to express the ancestors, so that the deceased to enjoy the pleasure of the present world.

3, wine, food and fruit

Tomb-sweeping in Qingming is actually the same as to come to the forefathers of the festival, so the vegetarian wine and food is also essential. First of all to the ancestors of the wine, general liquor can be; fruit should also be prepared to seasonal fruit is appropriate; snacks to eat food is generally local snacks, to the ancestors of the life of the favorite food is good.

4, flowers

Ching Ming graves can not do without flowers, generally white chrysanthemums are appropriate, there are thoughts and nostalgia meaning, in addition to the White Hundred, gardenia, yellow roses and so on are also suitable. If there are no special circumstances, it is best not to use flowers with strong aroma, bright colors, so as not to give people the impression of disrespect for the dead.

5, baggage

In the traditional rituals, burning baggage is an important form, the outside with yellow paper wrapped with the name of the family children and grandchildren, filled with paper money, such as treasure offerings, will be burned baggage, that is, on behalf of the children and grandchildren of the family will be the ancestors of these items.