Can I visit graves before Qingming Festival? Can I visit graves in advance during Qingming Festival?

1. You can sweep graves before Qingming Festival.

2. In some places, people visit their parents’ graves 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.

3. Tomb-sweeping 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.

4. The method is to clean up the tomb environment (such as weeds and trees), first worship the land god, 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.

5. In Hebei, the tradition of burning paper money when visiting graves is "early in the Qingming Festival and late in the evening on 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.