Dry rain often falls and the breeze blows before and after the Qingming Festival. People like the wind and rain at this time. It is said that "the apricot blossom rain makes your clothes wet, and the willow wind blows on your face without chilling". It means that spring is here, people can go out and breathe fresh air. Rural areas pay special attention to the Qingming Rain. There is an old proverb: "A rain before and after the Qingming Festival is as powerful as a scholar who has won the imperial examination."
The Qingming Rain is so important, which shows how eagerly the farmers look forward to the spring rain. Let’s take a look with the editor. Can we sweep graves the day before Qingming Festival? Of course, different places have different opinions. If you want to know more, read on.
There is another saying about visiting graves on the day before Qingming Festival. Some people call this day "Han's Day". It is said that an emperor mistakenly killed his generals Han Shizhong and Liang Hongyu. He felt deeply guilty and asked a famous Taoist priest to transfer all the things offered to his ancestors by people who visited the graves on the day before Qingming Festival to Han Dynasty. Under his name. Therefore, visiting the graves on the day before the Qingming Festival means that your ancestors will not be able to receive what you offer.
It is said that there will be a meeting in the underworld on Qingming Festival, and people without descendants cannot participate. Those attending the conference must hold flags given by descendants to enter. Therefore, during the Qingming festival, people now place paper-cut flags on the graves of their deceased ancestors. Therefore, the time to visit graves during Qingming Festival should be before Qingming Festival, not after.
In some places, gravesite visits are held on Qingming Day, because women who get married on Qingming Day have to come back to visit their parents’ graves. Her brother is going to entertain her. "Early in the Qingming Festival, late at the eleventh hour" means that during the Qingming Festival, people go to the graves before 12 o'clock, and then come back to eat after visiting the graves; on the eleventh day, they go to the graves after lunch. Some people also say that people visit graves during the Qingming Festival, usually before the Qingming Festival, or burn paper on the day of the Qingming Festival. Legend has it that at that time, one hundred pieces of paper were burned for two hundred pieces.
Sweeping tombs in southern Fujian does not necessarily only occur during the Qingming Festival. There are generally two dates for tomb-sweeping. The custom in Quanzhou is a few days before and after Qingming Festival. In Zhangzhou, some people choose to sweep tombs near the Shangsi Festival on the third day of March. For Hakkas, it is usually after the Spring Festival.
The method is, after cleaning up the tomb environment (such as weeds and trees), worship the land god first, and then worship the ancestors. After the worship, a small stone is used to press "tomb paper" on the tomb, which means that the tomb has been repaired. On the Qingming Festival, people generally do not cook food and only eat cold cakes. This is a custom originating from the Cold Food Festival.
In Hebei, when visiting graves and burning paper money, the tradition is "early to the Qingming Festival and late at the eleventh day of the lunar calendar (Ghost Festival)". Tomb-sweeping and paper-burning began a week before the Qingming Festival, and few people went to the tomb-sweeping day on the Qingming Festival. In southern Hebei, people choose to sweep graves on the Cold Food Festival, the day before Qingming Festival.
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