Nine Taboo Customs for Tomb Cleaning during the Qingming Festival

China is a country rich in traditional festivals. The Qingming Festival, which is coming soon, is also a festival that the ancients attached great importance to. Since ancient times, filial piety has been the first thing in China, so it also respects the deceased elders. So, what should I pay attention to when commemorating ancestors during the Qingming Festival?

1. Pregnant women avoid sweeping graves

It is best for pregnant women to avoid tomb sweeping activities during the Qingming Festival. This is not just the impact of heavy yin qi. In other respects, the Qingming Festival is very crowded. For the safety of the fetus, pregnant women are not recommended to participate. Moreover, the weather and surrounding environment of tomb sweeping are unfavorable to the health of pregnant women. In addition, women have periods and should avoid such activities.

2. No photos are allowed in the cemetery

The purpose of everyone sweeping the tomb is to sacrifice to the ancestors, not to have fun. There is a god three feet above the head. When everyone is sweeping the tomb, it is best to respect and be attentive and cautious. Never take photos in the cemetery or even take photos casually. Otherwise, it will attract a bad atmosphere, and there may be an imbalance between yin and yang, which will damage personal fortune.

3. Avoid wearing red and purple

You cannot wear red and purple to go to the grave during the Qingming Festival. I believe that people will not wear such clothes to participate in such activities. However, there will always be people who will be careless and use red inadvertently when wearing it. Of course, this year is an exception, and red can be worn in your underwear.

4. Outsiders should not participate in other people's grave inspections

It is taboo to participate in tomb sweeping as an outsider during the Qingming Festival, which can easily cause unnecessary trouble. After all, they are not family, and each has different luck, which may cause disorder in the atmosphere and lead to uncoordinated and bad luck.

5. Avoid tomb visits for those in poor health and unlucky times

A person who is in a sick or weak state, or who has had bad luck recently and everything has not gone wrong, it is best not to participate in grave-sweeping activities, because such people are in a state of overall low luck and can easily lead to bad luck. To put it bluntly, they are possessed by evil spirits, because dark things like people with low luck most. Such people lack popularity and are easy to invade.

6. The grass on the grave must be trimmed

Plants growing on graves must be removed and must not be allowed to grow out of the climate. This is the most important point. You must know that the so-called tomb cleaning means that you can clean up things that are not conducive to the cemetery. The vegetation on the tomb will cause harm to family members, including luck and health, which are all very detrimental.

7. Avoid buying shoes without covering your hair

In fact, Qingming Festival is also a Ghost Festival. Of course, you need to pay attention to hair styles, especially hair cannot cover your forehead. The forehead is where the magic lamp of the human body is located and cannot be covered. At the same time, don't buy shoes on the same day, because shoes are evil, and most friends with some common sense will not buy shoes on this day to avoid unlucky luck.

8. Avoid teasing and criticizing ancestors

After sweeping the tomb, someone went with their children. They might have been solemn at first, but they started to fight and laugh as soon as they finished. This should be noted. You should know that the cemetery is, after all, where the Yin spirits sleep. Laughing and scolding will disturb the Yin spirits. It is disrespectful and may lead to retaliation. It is even more undesirable to criticize the ancestors. If you pass by someone else's cemetery, judging the deceased is blasphemy, and no one can blame you for getting into trouble.

9. Tomb sweeping time on Qingming Festival

It is best to choose the time to sweep the tomb when the yang qi is relatively strong, that is, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., and complete the Qingming Mountain Prayer activities before 3 p.m., because the yang qi has gradually subsided and the yin qi gradually increases. If people with low luck or weak bodies sacrifice in the evening when the yin qi is heavy, it may affect their luck. Five days before and after Qingming Festival, as well as Qingming Festival, but you cannot sweep tombs on Cold Food Festival, which is the first day of Qingming Festival.

In fact, Qingming Festival is one of the three major ghost festivals in my country, but Qingming Festival is rarely called Ghost Festival because Qingming Festival is a festival to remember and pay homage to our ancestors. No matter where we are, we will always go to the cemetery for our ancestors to worship to relieve our feelings of missing them. In addition to being full of piety, we also need to know the above nine taboos when sweeping tombs.