What are the details of Tomb-Sweeping Day's sacrifice?

Tomb-Sweeping Day is a festival to worship ancestors, and the traditional activity is to sweep graves. This festival is a day for future generations to remember and sacrifice their ancestors. Most filial sons and grandchildren will go to cemeteries, crematoriums or columbariums to hold worship ceremonies to express their grief, remembrance and nostalgia for their ancestors. However, in addition to offering sacrifices to sweep, we also need to be clear about some matters needing attention so as not to bring unnecessary trouble to ourselves:

1, choose a day to sweep.

Try to avoid weekends or other grave-sweeping peak hours, because the increase in the number of private cars during peak hours will bring trouble to travel due to traffic congestion. You can choose to take all kinds of public transport, or extend the grave sweeping time (leaving early and returning late) or stagger the key time periods to relieve the pressure on road traffic caused by more people and cars.

2, inventory at any time

Whether you arrive at the sacrifice site or leave, you should form a good habit of counting your belongings to avoid accidental loss of valuables. Collective sacrifice should be calculated at any time, especially parents with children should take good care of their children and prevent them from getting lost because of play.

Step 3 pay attention to safety

When burning paper money and placing offerings, you should pay attention to fire prevention to ensure safety, and try to bring your own belongings to avoid buying vendors selling utensils near the sacrifice site. If you have to buy it because it is inconvenient to carry, you should prepare the change in advance, put a small amount of cash in the coat pocket that is convenient to take out, and put a large amount of cash in it to avoid being pickpocketed by thieves.

4, the black gas transport capacity is low

On the morning of grave sweeping, when you wash your face, if you look in the mirror and find that your forehead is getting darker and darker, it means that your fortune is very low. Try to avoid sweeping graves. If you must go, you can bring protective items (such as amulets) to solve it.

5. Fasting is forbidden.

Tomb-Sweeping Day got up in the morning and arrived at the grave-sweeping site. Try to eat vegetarian food and dress neatly and strictly to show courtesy and respect to your ancestors.

Step 6 avoid remote places

Don't go to places that are too remote and hard to reach. It is best to plan according to the usual route. Don't stay in remote places for a long time to ensure your own safety.

7. Don't disturb his spirit

A graveyard is a place where ghosts rest. Don't laugh and curse, call names, run around and fight, and urinate everywhere. In other graves in Lu Yu, don't trample on tombstones with your feet, and don't touch the victims of other tombstones. There is no doubt that you should recite "I'm sorry to bother you" sincerely. The scope of the cemetery should be flattering, and you should control your emotions and attitudes so as not to disturb and offend other ghosts.

8. sacrifice time

The time for sweeping graves should be chosen when the sun is strong. Before dawn or in the evening, it is not good for grave sweepers. You should try to avoid sweeping graves. Usually, the best time to sweep graves is from 10 am to 3 pm.

9. Clean up the cemetery

Facing the graves of ancestors, we need to clean up weeds, increase loose soil, and tidy up the surrounding environment, so that the cemetery looks complete and tidy. At the same time, we pray silently in our hearts, place our hopes on the graves, and pray that ancestors will make future generations rich and prosperous.

Sacrifice process:

Usually, sacrifice includes putting prepared incense sticks, flowers and fruits, burning paper, tobacco and alcohol, and foods that ancestors liked to eat before their death (the number of sacrifice gifts is random) neatly in front of the tomb. Then, light incense sticks and burn incense to thank the mountain gods who manage the cemetery (as the patron saint of the cemetery) for their land, then respectfully bow down to their ancestors and offer flowers, then burn cymbals and drink a libation (that is, sprinkle wine on the ground, which represents a toast to their ancestors). After the ceremony, eat the food of ancestors selectively and leave after the candle is lit.

Avoid going to crowds:

1, the little life in a woman's belly needs a harmonious breeding environment, and the negative magnetic field in the cemetery tends to be negative, which will make the little life lose the balance of yin and yang, so pregnant women should not go to the cemetery.

2. Most women in confinement are emotionally unstable. Family care and husband's love will make women feel warm, and there are few Yang in the cemetery, which easily makes women feel left out.

3. It is not appropriate to go to the grave 49 days before and after the wedding ceremony, because the mood is high, it is easy to laugh when sweeping the grave, and the joy and worry collide, resulting in disrespect for the ancestors of the cemetery.

4. 49 days before and after the operation, the patient's physique is in recovery and needs the support of life sunshine. The cemetery weakens people and induces psychological death thinking, so patients should not go.

5, physical evil (such as abortion), decline (such as intimacy with the unlucky opposite sex), death (high-risk patients) and other people's magnetic fields are disordered, so it is not appropriate to bring negative magnetic fields to places with heavy yin, and it is necessary to help balance religious forces.

6. The environment around the cemetery is mostly tombstones and trees. Tombstones belong to soil and trees belong to wood. Wooden soil, lack of vitality, people who are too old to make mistakes are prone to emotional instability or make wrong decisions because of Jupiter's movement. What is most needed at this time is a lively place to consolidate the foundation and cultivate the RMB.